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 The Daily Show and other Comedy Central videos don't work for us international people anymore. Even if I was still in the US, I would be reluctant to allow a "semi-functional" video service on the site - because like most community websites we have large contingent of overseas members - and non-functioning content makes us look bad.
Should we remove Comedy Central? Comments  who has this post bookmarked ant
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Long version:
While I enjoyed a lot of their content when it did work, and i see no reason for us to stop US sifters from viewing their content, it dosen't look good for Vids to appear Dead as dag notes. Theres a reason why we let people mark videos as * dead and its not just so that new links can be found, its so that the sift itself doesn't stay full of invalid content. The presence of working links keeps the sift a place of * quality and that gets put in jeopardy by too many deads. While i now know not to bother with a comedy central sourced sift, many new or casual people might not realize why they don't work and have the negative experience of the dead link colour their impression of the sift as a whole.
For that reason, I think a policy of baning all restrictive access hosts makes sense. Their content doesn't benefit the sift as it should, and doing so doesn't restrict US people from viewing said vids from the source site, if the need a CC fix.
Restrictive IS * dead sufficiently to warrant being treated as such, in my view.
It's really a pity because i love CC's stuff but i think it would be the best...
Besides: i really enjoy the democratic character of VS
But on second thought it would split this page apart. Think about it:
Comments on videos you cant see, different TopSifts lists depending on where you come from and so on...
I say the easiest way is: Kick em out
Though they were always a great contribution to the site, this is their way of saying they don´t want to be friends with us anymore.
Can we please make a decision on this by, Guy Fawkes day?? I would love to remember, the 5th of November as, the "Videosift Treason and Plot!!"
Some of you know how adamant I am personally, in my opposition to Comedy Central's canned, live laughter, her coke-addled writers, her doubleplusunclever pundits, and the litter, that is, an inordinate amount of posts here, from the whore of 17-something sarcasm, and meaningless editorializing..... "Good Riddance, Comedy Central!!!"
One big question arises, however: Will this give the diamond-level members an unfair advantage? They can post any flash-based video they want, and since Comedy Central clips are extremely popular here I'd hate to see only a select few have access to guaranteed vote-getters. Think it over.
But seriously...I think removing CC is the only choice we have. The only thing I ask is if we are going to drop the existing CC sifts that we do it in a way that they can be restored with votes and comments intact if CC eventually pulls their head out of their ass and open themselves up again to the rest of the world.
BTW...does anyone know if the "myspace" embed that CC supplies is also blocked?
I liek the idea of having U.S. link. Like a tag? So those who can't see them, can filter them out. Of course doing this risks less votes and views.
The CC video servers are terrible even when they work. When was the last time anybody had choppy, video because youtube didn't keep enough bits flowing for the video to run in real time? on CC it happens ALL THE TIME. The forced vid ads on their own site just compounds to the frustration, even the ads hang. And now non-US sifters can't see them?
This really is way beyond absurd they don't provide quality streaming, so while I like much of the video they offer I can't see how Viacom's video servers meet the *quality requirement of the sift, much less accessibility for anybody outside the USofA.
Lets dump um, and send their PR office an e-mail about it.
Jesus, do I have to take care of everything?? It isn't exactly easy for me to keep this site afloat!
Karaidl - the people who like the Daily Show, are probably the least likely to want to immigrate in the current environment. I will limit myself to astral projection at least until November '08.
Also, Diamonds will still of course have the ability to submit from Comedy Central, but we would kindly ask you to refrain.
I'll be posting my open letter to Comedy Central- Monday morning in the US. Stay tuned, and help us spread the word. It would be amazing if VideoSift could help overturn this policy!
Yeah, i can watch the Dailyshow.com vids once java script was enabled for that site (I block for sites unless i actually want it). (UK)