Story: So, the white and nerdy post inspired me to post an old bit of really bad white rap, where he is middle class and cuts the grass, much like Weird Al's opening. I found the version on break, searched here for middle class, average homeboy (the name of the video), that sort of thing, found nothing. Did my submission. It provided me a list of possible dupes, it wasn't there. Finished submission. The URL:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Average-Homeboy-2
Whoa, "-2"? So I pop in
http://www.videosift.com/video/Average-Homeboy
Sure enough, it has been submitted, though was discarded due to being a dupe (which isn't so well tagged or entitled). I discarded it.
Now it was not tragedy or anything (and I could have found it with an advanced search), but as a suggestion, listing discards in possible dups might help find this sort of thing if it occurs very often.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Average-Homeboy-2
Whoa, "-2"? So I pop in
http://www.videosift.com/video/Average-Homeboy
Sure enough, it has been submitted, though was discarded due to being a dupe (which isn't so well tagged or entitled). I discarded it.
Now it was not tragedy or anything (and I could have found it with an advanced search), but as a suggestion, listing discards in possible dups might help find this sort of thing if it occurs very often.
Discards are fair game for resifting, but you just ran into an unusual case. Besides, sometimes it takes many many tries to get something sifted.
Case in point: http://www.videosift.com/video/Fuck-it-If-Unicorn-planet-made-it-this-can-too
Exact same video was sifted 17 times before it was finally able to keep from being downvoted out (knickers twisted twits).
Not much we can do about it except go edit that other videos tags so that in the future when someone else is searching for a dupe it will show up.