This is my first Sift Talk post, so I hope I'm not bring up issues that have already been discussed. These are just a few little things I've always wondered about on videosift:

1. If you are not the creator of the video, but you are the uploader,is it appropriate to submit it to videosift? I recently lost a rare Tom Waits live video to the dreaded dead, and I had the thought that it might be worth it to back up videos to our computers that, if dead, would likely be hard to find again.

This could also be useful if you see something cool on another video site not supported by VideoSift, or a non-flash video, and you wanted to share it on the sift. If this were allowed, you could download the video, re-upload it to your supported video site of choice, and post it to the Sift.

2. A suggestion: the embed code validation button is one of my favorite things about 3.0, but don't you hate it when you think your embed code is valid, but it's actually a dupe? I think it could be cool if every time this happened we could submit that code as a duplicate code, and then the Sift would recognize it as a dupe the next time someone went to submit it. For example, say I want to submit video A. The embed code is valid, but when I go to submit it the possible duplicates page show me that my video is a dupe. If there was a feature that stored alternate embed codes, this wouldn't happen to the next person who comes along and tries to submit video A.

Being able to see a list of alternates would also save us a lot of time *undeading videos, and if there was a "View Alternate Sources" button, we could see other places to find the video if say, youtube was running slowly (when I had dial up, videos used to load faster on Google Video for some reason. Don't know if this is true for anyone else).

3. Just a little one: is it redundant to tag words that're already in the video description the same way it's redundant to tag words already in your title?

Again, I'm sorry if this has been hashed through before. I just wanted to put it out there.