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...that's what she said...

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
I don't think it was long enough.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
I don't get why the downvotes...the video offered exactly what the title suggested.

I don't think it was long enough.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
I don't get why the downvotes...the video offered exactly what the title suggested.

Thank you for that I did attempt to own that search engine, but alas...

In reply to this comment by cybrbeast:
dupe of http://www.videosift.com/video/Maki-Sure-Staring-Contest-Winner

other versions (with sound):
http://www.videosift.com/video/THX-in-the-wild
http://www.videosift.com/video/Dramatic-Tarsier

dupe of http://www.videosift.com/video/Maki-Sure-Staring-Contest-Winner

other versions (with sound):
http://www.videosift.com/video/THX-in-the-wild
http://www.videosift.com/video/Dramatic-Tarsier

Thanks for pointing this out. The rules bend both ways on this. I think that thte genereal consensus is: if the music changes the video enough to be unique then it stays. Look up the Tarsier/Maki/THX videos. What do you think?

In reply to this comment by Tymbrwulf:
Your video http://www.videosift.com/video/Adding-the-Benny-Hill-Theme-to-Anything-Makes-it-Funny seems to be a dupe of http://www.videosift.com/video/HonestlyA-Shrimp-On-A-Treadmill, except it has music added to it. Not sure about the rules on that.

I think the two are different enough. I think the edited one shows that it wasn't as good of an improvement as the THX/tarsier remix because it's not really getting a lot of votes compared to the other. Still, it is different. And creative as well.

^ No, not at all. Just because something else got to stay because of a different sound track does not make this one valid. The other one (Original, Jumper editing, Heavily edited, and the THX intro) was all edits that dramatically altered the content.

This one just adds some music. I don't think it differs enough to warrant staying.

To get the thread back on track: The sifter that fixed the video with the wrong code should PM the poster, or if the poster is an absent member (i.e. Firefly/ladybug) then they should invoke the * discuss command so that the admins can fix it or send it back to the dead pool if the proper embed is not found.

As for the original topic: If a short clip is here already, and a longer one is added, it can stay, provided that it adds significant context over the first. If a longer clip is here, and a short one is submitted, it's a dupe is a dupe is a dupe. I don't want to hear about "oh, well I don't want to have to watch 40 minutes to see 10." That doesn't matter. The content is already here.

As for same video content with alternate audio:

Provided that the new audio changes the context/purpose of the clip than it's acceptable.
Example: Original Maki clip Kinda boring, if you ask me. Then there was the THX remix. This one added a new level of comedy to it just with the added sound. Lastly, there's the Dramatic Tarsier II video. This time the sound exists for shock value, not comedy.

Listen arsenault185> We didnt just evolve along with apes and primates. We ARE apes and primates.

Chimpanzees and Gorillas share ancestors, they are two different apes. Humans and Chimps share ancestors, we are two different kinds of ape. We have a very good understanding of this, and the "missing link" myth is a leftover from Darwins days, since then, we have not only found hundreds of "missing links" between ourselves and our ancestors, but we have done something much better: we have discovered, and even mapped, our DNA. Genetics doesnt just prove beyond any doubt that we are related to other apes, it shows exactly HOW we are related to them, we know that chimpanzees are our closest living non-human relative, and our common ancestor lived 6 million years ago, our shared ancestor with gorillas lived 7 million years ago, then Orangutangs at 14 Million years ago...

We separated from..
Gibbons 18 million years ago
old world monkeys>25 million years ago
new world monkeys, 40 million years ago
Tarsiers, 58 million years ago
Lemurs 63 million years ago

Lemurs are our most distant primate relative, but it doesnt stop there..

180 million years ago we share ancestors with every living mammal, 680 million years ago, we separated from jellyfish.., and finally 3.5 billion years ago, our common ancestor with ALL LIVING THINGS lived. we know this because every living animal, insect, fish and plant share the same traces of DNA. EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM.