I'm kinda suprised that democrat supporters haven't made more out of this... has anything been sifted for this yet? Its hardly on the news here at all.. but then again our main international news channel is Sky News.. which is owned by Rupert Murdoch.

Maybe people just don't think this is a very big deal?

The running mate of US Republican presidential candidate John McCain has been found guilty of an abuse of power, according to a state legislature probe.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7662820.stm

http://www.factcheck.org/just-the-facts/special_edition_the_second_presidential_debate.html

Nonsense in Nashville - Fact Checking Video - Special Post-Debate Edition (2 mins 45 seconds)

the words 'get them' 'the fuck away' 'from me' come to mind..

can i get an AMEN on that please? anyone?

i didn't think that i could loose my goldness.. clearly i'm wrong.. now i'm a lowly silver again.. oh well. to be honest, i don't know what power points are or how some of the sift 3.1 works.. i'm pretty much a lurker.. did anyone else transform to lurkerdom once they got to gold? i know i did. also, i'm procrastinating, cuz i've got stuff to do that i don't want to do. so feed me attention, please. or don't. either way, i'm sure i can figure out how to post a video again.. and try and dig up some of dem links i used to use.. hmm..

hey everybody

i have been a lurker for a while now.. used to be fairly active.. then i just started lurking.. dunno why really.. just not really interested in posting anything.. antisocial really ain't it?

anyways, i did a quick sift search for this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ueEfRXZCVA

and nothing came up.. so if someone wants to sift this.. go ahead.. i think it would do well

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My idea of the 'Deceptive Collective' comes from me noticing the abundance of comment threads about whether or not a vid is fake. Clearly, sifters like talking about the fakeness or reallness of a video for what ever reason. So the guidelines for the 'Deceptive Collective' will be: 1. Vids that seem fake but are actually real 2. Vids that seem real but are actually fake 3 Vids that are obviously fake but were created in a (albeit poor) attempt to deceive the viewer (e.g. an awful magic trick). I was talking to another sifter about this idea and they said it was "Stodgy - excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull". I'd love to hear some feedback from you guys - any ideas / reactions / opinions? Thanks.

I've seen some sifts before where the vid is split up into different parts on youtube, but the different parts are attached to the actual post when its sifted. I'd like to do that with this film I just submitted.

you've seen half the top 15 already and you're left thinking "shit, i could have posted that!"

any other signs? (e.g. when you make a sift talk post entitled "You know you're addicted to videosift when..." and you actually care if people contribute or not...)

you know those vids that seem too ridiculous to be real.. or are so blatantly faked that they are funny? well.. they deserve a good home.

Here are 2 suggestions for the sift, not sure if they've been mentioned before:

1. Have a 'watch this post' option where you can watch any post, even if you haven't submitted it. You receive an email whenever it gets published, discarded, new comments...

2. Have a reward system for good / funny / intelligent comments. This would act as an incentive to make comments even more enjoyable. I don't think I'm alone in saying that I enjoy the comments almost as much as I enjoy the videos and its what distinguishes the sift community from youtube or metacafe. You could even have a 'best comment thread of the month' reward, with each commenter getting one free published video (like the *quality thing here on sift talk) for their contribution.

due to the recent bannation spree that seems to have gripped the sift community like a sexually frustrated manualist (look it up people - its not a fake), i'd like to make it clear that, just for the record, i'm not and never have been involved in any websites..

except for youtube, google and digg.. which i basically own..

oh, and did i forget to mention facebook, bebo and wikipedia? yeah, they're mine too..

but seriously.. not a single one.

except for hotmail and yahoo..