I'm gonna promote dis an' dat, and dat one over dere

Oh daddy, can I have that big shiny star over dere.

In reply to this comment by Haldaug:
Thanks! That one needed promoting.

In reply to this comment by jonny:
*promote

In reply to this comment by rickegee:
The next President of the United States.

4 months before he even announced his candidacy. That's a nice crystal ball. Can I get a peek?

>> ^Darkhand:
Crap I spelled "your" not "you're"!

You can change the title (but not the URL) using the "modify video details" link.

In reply to this comment by doogle:
dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Accident-Victim-s-Rescue-Mishap-Yes-Physics-Work

fyi, Gold-100's can now invoke the dupeof command.

yeah, I know - I specifically used that word because it popped into my head when I saw your comment. I promoted it knowing full way it had very little chance of getting published, so I thought I'd make an editorial comment in the process.

Thanks for the mp3 link!! Listening to them now. Great stuff.

In reply to this comment by Farhad2000:
That is exactly what they are. Philistines. I have said this for a long time...

Some MP3s of Cambodian Rock and Roll for you http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/12/cambodian-rocks.html

In reply to this comment by jonny:
you fucking philistines are going to watch this and like it dammit

*promote

It's just one of those turns of speech that is firing on all pistons, so to speak.

btw - I wanted to ask if it's possible to put the published date back onto videos. I definitely see why folks wanted to forget everything but the posted date for finding dupes, but there's no sense in throwing the baby out with the bath water. You can still include the published date as popup text over 'posted by' or even as an added line of text in the user visible 'post-title' section when a video is published. It's definitely still useful to be able to see when a vid was published versus when it was posted without having to scan through the comments for each promote.


In reply to this comment by lucky760:
Well thank you very much. It's an honor just to have been nominated.

In reply to this comment by jonny:
This has earned a place in my fictitious list of all time best ever internet comments.

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
And yes, you have the ability to ignore videos. It's a great feature called don't visit VideoSift any more.

This has earned a place in my fictitious list of all time best ever internet comments.

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
And yes, you have the ability to ignore videos. It's a great feature called don't visit VideoSift any more.

hey - I was wondering if you could clear something up. I had thought the Top 15 list was supposed to include videos posted within the last 4 days, but apparently that's not the case. Blankfist currently has a video at #10 in the Top 15 list, but it was posted nearly 5 days ago.

Can you clarify how it works?

[edit] Duckman says nevermind.

Got another conundrum for ya, lucky. A few days ago, I noticed that Duckman's Grinch video might be a duplicate of firefly's previously dead video. I pointed it out to firefly, who then fixed his video and declared Duckman's a dupe. But of course, his dupeof invocation didn't work since the original was his own. So, I followed up myself.

Duckman has now pointed out to me that the videos are in fact different. I'm not sure why firefly would fix his with a different vid and then call dupe, but that's apparently what happened. Any solutions?

The 'nochannel' invocation doesn't seem to work on talk posts. Do you think you could remove the obviously out of place post from at least the brain channel?

No worries about the avatar. User brain liked the avatar I had for the channel and just adopted it as his own.

We could probably get a smaller socal or just OC siftup whenever. With that many people, it's hard to get everyone together on one date.

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
No, it looks like the only way to remove a talk post from your channel is to *nochannel (I think). Give that a shot.

Ohhh, boy... I never considered the situation where a channel name is identical to a username... It'll take a rewrite to fix it. Sorry, but until I can make a change, perhaps you can not change the avatar and just let brain use his (or vice versa). I apologize for the inconvenience.

Too bad about the SiftUp. Maybe next time. Thanks for replying.

In reply to this comment by jonny:
got a couple questions for ya, lucky -

Is there any way to remove talk posts from my channel?

Apparently the avatars for user brain and the brain channel are getting mixed up. Is there any way around this?

Sorry I forgot to write you back a few weeks ago about the sift up, but it looks like it was moved just a couple days after that anyway. I'm pretty sure I'll be in NOLA in early jan. I'll respond on the talk post too.

got a couple questions for ya, lucky -


Is there any way to remove talk posts from my channel?

Apparently the avatars for user brain and the brain channel are getting mixed up. Is there any way around this?

Sorry I forgot to write you back a few weeks ago about the sift up, but it looks like it was moved just a couple days after that anyway. I'm pretty sure I'll be in NOLA in early jan. I'll respond on the talk post too.

I'll ask Lucky about it. I suspect there is a way to fix the avatar mix up if you want to use crocoduck (hilarious, btw). It's fine with me either way. Thanks for the heads up.

In reply to this comment by brain:
I finally uploaded an avatar to my profile. I uploaded a picture of a crocoduck, like the one here:
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/9030/crocaduck1ce.jpg

And to my surprise, my avatar was not the crocoduck that I uploaded, but was a picture of a brain! A picture of a brain that I had never seen before!

So, on a hunch, I went to brain.videosift.com, and I saw a picture of my crocoduck on brain.videosift.com!!! WHOOPS! Somehow the two pictures are getting crossed and backwards.

The URL's are very similar:
My avatar URL: http://static1.videosift.com/avatars/b/brain.jpg?1227638582
brian.videosift.com picture: http://static1.videosift.com/avatars/b/brain.jpg

So I saved the picture of the brain I saw, and uploaded that as my avatar. So now we're both set to pictures of brains. I think the brain is pretty damn cool. I'm fine with keeping that as my avatar forever. I don't even care if it changes to different pictures of brains if the channel gets updated. So this isn't even technically a problem.

I just wanted to let you know since you're the channel owner. Maybe you can report it to whoever cares.

BTW, hopefully the picture I re-uploaded is the same size and quality as the original. It appears to be as far as I can tell.

Absolutely. One of the best ones is dead. I'll go through them all more thoroughly, but you should put this into your playlist to replace the discarded dupe.

Any video in the brain channel should provide some info about how brains or minds work. Basically, the idea is to filter out demonstrations of mental behavior and include explanations of it. I didn't want the channel to be a collection of card tricks, optical illusions, and Derren Brown style mind tricks. Manipulating a sensory system (however wonderfully surprising), doesn't necessarily help describe the system. Of course, certain demonstrations of mental or neurological activity do help define their function. A behavioral change arising after some specific neuropatholgy, for instance, at the very least gives some indication of how that neural system is organized.

Any vid describing animal, or synthetic, minds and brains is welcome, so long as it helps inform the viewer about how such systems work.

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Just wondering if there's anything in http://www.videosift.com/playlists/schmawy/Animal-Intelligence that would qualify for your channel?

hey - thanks for that. You left the chat room before I could finish my long-winded reply.

I edited the tags on your vid - replaced 'MRI' and 'CT' with 'SPECT', the type of imaging they were using. It's a variant of PET imaging. And I added alcohol to the list of drugs. Gotta have alcohol.

I didn't want to vote for it at first, because there were a couple of bits of misinformation. But the brain channel needs all it can get - and the vid does describe brain function and neuropathology. The bit about the reduced motivation due to decreased temporal lobe activity really struck me the most. I won't say it's completely wrong, but motivation is primarily a function of the frontal lobes (think R. P. McMurphy after his frontal lobotomy).

Anyway, thanks for the contribution - I'm having a hard enough time just getting folks to go through their sifted vids to add to the channel. I wonder if my choice was a little too narrow. Maybe I'll pull a choggie and give the channel to nibiyabi to run more broadly and I'll create another.

In reply to this comment by swampgirl:
I shopped for your channel this morning. http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Effects-of-Drugs-On-the-Brain

Hi - just wanted to personally thank you for relinquishing the 'brain' subdomain. Got anything you'd like promoted?