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Policeman versus Fireman

*promote and see the others:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Policeman-vs-Fireman-part-2
http://www.videosift.com/video/Policeman-vs-Fireman-3

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| 1 week 3 days ago | CH

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Hey - What's Your Favorite Sifting Snack? (Cooking Talk Post)

I've always found beer goes well with beer. Maybe a good pretzel. But mostly beer.

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| 1 week 3 days ago | CH

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Wha' happened??? (Mystery Talk Post)

The first sentence of the FAQ entry has the really important stuff:

videos with the most votes that were last queued within the past four days and originally submitted within the past two weeks

Queued and submitted are nearly the same, only that a video can be "requeued" if it gets promoted. Posted = originally submitted = initially queued = time when you submit the video, which is not the same as published = sifted. Last queued is usually the same as originally submitted, unless it's been promoted, which resets the queue time. So, if you've submitted a video within the last two weeks, and it gets published within 4 days of the last queue time, and has enough votes, it's in the top 15.

So, in the case of your video, it was originally submitted 5 days 6 hours ago, which is also the last queue time since it was never promoted. Thus, it's past the 4 day window. Make sense?

[edit] The published date has no bearing on a video being in the top 15.

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| 1 week 3 days ago | CH

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Wha' happened??? (Mystery Talk Post)

are you serious? or are you just trying to get some more of that hot face rubbing from BF?

[edit] Your vid was last queued (and initially queued) 5 days 2 hours ago (cf. 4d4h from earlier comment). So, it is older than the 4 day limit. The bit about having been initially queued within the last 2 weeks (which is actually new to me, but pretty cool imo) means that if a vid doesn't make it out of the queue when originally posted, it has up to two weeks to get promoted back to the queue and published. I don't know if that would include begged videos (but it should).

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| 1 week 4 days ago | CH

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Why Do ALL Europeans Hate America?

>> ^Akujin:
I have been watching clips on the sift here for over 4 years

lmfahs - really?? that's a neat trick.

You're denouncing this news clip because of how unfair it would be for an entire society hating on another purely because of the ideology of its members. Yet every single day something is either posted about how if you believe in religion you're A: wrong, B: backwards.

The entirety of religious society is discarded here on the sift based on YOUR narrow minded viewpoints. And its hard to fathom that someone else can feel the same about your nation?

As with societies, the sift is the same - not everyone here is a religion basher. On the other hand, religion is completely different than nationality. You get to choose one, not the other. One may consider moving to another country and applying for citizenship, but the financial and social burden is usually too great for most people to overcome. Changing your faith is usually no more difficult than picking up a book and going to the appropriate place of worship, or simply giving it up entirely, which many here have done.

The clip is clearly overloaded with simplifications, but it is worth considering what happens when a generation of media coverage continues to push a particular viewpoint. That's one of the great things about the US - our mainstream media often get it wrong, but they have a tendency to correct in the long term. You have to pull back and look at this from a longer perspective. I don't really know what European media is like much beyond BBC online. But I wouldn't be surprised if anger at American foreign policy over years slowly changed into simply hatred of America, without some counter balancing coverage.

[edit] I have to say that the overall quality of mainstream media in the US has been deteriorating for some time, and more than just the last eight years. But I don't think this is strictly an American phenomenon (caveat above notwithstanding).

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Wonkiness (Sift Talk Post)

>> ^ant:
How about my issue?

I recommend you seek professional help.

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Wha' happened??? (Mystery Talk Post)

Top 15 includes vids posted (not published) within the last 4 days. You posted that 4 days 4 hours ago.

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| 1 week 5 days ago | CH

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James Brown races Satan (played by Gary Oldman)

*shortfilms

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persephone

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So, I promoted your old vid without checking to see if it was still alive. I can't remember exactly what scene(s) it was, though. Choggie listed a couple of replacements in the comments, and there are several others to choose from out there as well.

btw: what happened to the pomegranate?

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Document Imaging Solution

*discarding due to overcrowded sift talk

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Sugar is Killing You

*discarding due to overcrowded sift talk

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