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I just watched The Midnight Meat Train...

littledragon_79 (http://terrible.videosift.com/member/littledragon_79) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:47:58 -0800

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Has anyone else seen this movie?

- littledragon_79

Appeal From ADX Florence

choggie (http://terrible.videosift.com/member/choggie) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:09:12 -0700

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Hey well-wishers.....Until choggie's probationary status is lifted, he is unable to perform properly and efficiently. Can't re-rase comments from users clogging his personal profile, (some old as dirt, others banal and self-destructive), can't privatize comments (which we can't imagine why this restriction even matters with all the cut-and-pasters and ignorers out there), and he can't FIX DEAD VIDS WITH NEW EMBED CODES-Which is what he would like to do before they die.

Choggie received some auto-generated e-mails this AM from siftbot, reminding that a number of his published viddies are dead-Choggie checked, the embeds are out there for most of them. Perusers with good-intentions or otherwise in their stalwart efforts to keep the sift free of clutter have started a clock-o-tikkin' he is helpless to smash with a hammer.

Would anyone like to help fix some of them??? He would be most gracious, as always, to return the favor in kind once his restrictions are removed.

Eat More Greens,
Mildred Krauthammer, SAC, SPA, NHA

- choggie

*Quality has got to go

PHJF (http://terrible.videosift.com/member/PHJF) — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:05:09 -0700

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I think it was with the advent of Sift 4.0 that this nasty *quality function was added, and since then it's done nothing but clog up my front page with years-old videos. What is this, a retirement home for youtube? There already exists *promote along with a big old box at the top of the page, why was an alternative needed?

And for the record, if I select to sort by "newness"... the first five videos that greet me range in age from one to four months. That speaks for itself.

- PHJF

The Seattle Craigslist sex scandal

yourhydra (http://terrible.videosift.com/member/yourhydra) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:30:33 -0700

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Sunday, September 10, 2006
The Seattle Craigslist sex scandal

San Francisco Chronicle columnist Violet Blue has posted a comprehensive roundup of the Craigslist sex scandal making the blog-rounds since last week. Over the weekend, I solicited comment from others known for insight on privacy and life online, and will post their thoughts here as they come in.

For what it’s worth, I think what Jason Fortuny did is shameful and wrong in the extreme. But one obvious moral to this tale: your private information is as intimate as your private parts. There are serious risks to sharing either with strangers you bump into online.

Violet writes:

Last Monday Seattle resident Jason Fortuny [Ed. Note: pictured at left] (and a friend) carried out a thought experiment into reality -- one I think anyone who has surfed Craigslist sex ads has entertained. He took a hardcore Women Seeking Men ad from another city and reposted it to see how many replies he could get in 24 hours (the ad's photo at right). Then he published every single response -- photos, emails, IM info, phone numbers, names, everything, to a public wiki (Encyclopedia Dramatica -- site is up and down, check back if down). Then they went public on Jason's LiveJournal page calling it The Craigslist Experiment, inviting readers to identify the CL ad's responders and add more info ("Your Goal: identify people you know IRL and point them out. We've already had great successes here.") It has turned into quite a meme, getting posted all over the place.

(...) They got 178 responses, with 145 photos of men -- cocks, faces, more; full email addresses (both personal and business addresses), names, and a few IM names and phone numbers. One respondent used a Microsoft employee email address, another used a usar.army.mil (military) email address. They got audio, too. Since then, there has been one copycat in Portland. Respondents have emailed him asking him to take the info down, and he has simply published their requests.

Since then Jason has had *his* private info published to CL and been threatened physically, threatened with lawsuits, and has been hated on by everyone from online BDSM communities to Wired (and I saw he was interviewed by the NY Times on friday Sept. 8, so I wonder what position they'll take on all of this). Wired called him "sociopathic" while commenters are saying things like "Disclosing an email to the public is indeed a violation of privacy, and if anyone has a spine, they will take you down with a massive lawsuit that will make you regret ever doing this. You are a liar, a xenophobe, an asshole, and deserve to have your ass beaten to within an inch of your life."

Link to more on the story.

Reader comment: Anonymous BoingBoing reader says,

I'm writing to you from my real email account in order to demonstrate that I'm for real, but hoping that anything I may say will only be published anonymously.

I am a woman in my early 30s who has used Craigslist in my city to find casual sex, so I took a particular interest in the story of Jason Fortuny.

I tend to agree with Wired News: I think this is a deeply hateful act.

I've posted a few "Casual Encounters" ads at different times looking for various things. The first ad alone received over 300 replies. Some of them were beyond repugnant -- the bestiality proposition springs to mind. The majority were unappealing but mundane -- people who just didn't dance the same way I do, mentally speaking, didn't know how to compose a well-thought-out email or articulate themselves attractively. Those were ones like the one-liner "yo, hit me on MSN", that kind of thing. I received a lot of dickpix. Then, there were a tiny fraction that drew me in and showed me that as much consideration had gone into their reply as I put into my original post. Those were people I connected with, corresponded with (from a gmail account), and eventually met.

As a writer I have put a lot of thought into how I could use these experiences in my work. But even though I have a goldmine of material in my gmail account, I would *never* reveal these people's identities or post their personal information. It simply breaks a very basic implied trust. Now, the situation with Fortuny is different because he's just taking the piss for his own amusement. But I think that makes it even worse.

It's a big ol' world and there are intelligent, worthwhile people in the Craigslist personals... *real* people. They're (mostly!) not much different from you in that we all have the same needs and desires and cravings. This is just one manner of fulfilling them. My experiences have brought me much joy and a small measure of sorrow, but ultimately they have made my life unquestionably richer. The fact that this jagoff thinks that he is above these feelings, that he is pissing all over CL personals posters -- by extension pissing all over me -- is to me simply repugnant.

taken from- http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/10/the_seattle_craigsli.html

Thoughts?

- yourhydra

Best thing MTV has ever influanced...

yourhydra (http://terrible.videosift.com/member/yourhydra) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:06:49 -0700

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Just wanted to share this.

http://15.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpzm7fOJzx1qzbfx5o1_500.jpg

if you don't get it...watch this http://www.videosift.com/video/Kanye-Insults-Taylor-Swift-at-VMAs

- yourhydra

New Jersey fucking sucks

RhesusMonk (http://terrible.videosift.com/member/RhesusMonk) — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:00:56 -0700

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Apparently the wack-job hairstyle and inimitable nose are not enough to identify this mystery rock legend. Read the hilariously disappointing story below.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090815/D9A30C6G1.html

- RhesusMonk

The Blocked, NSFW, Long and Brief invocations

Kerotan (http://terrible.videosift.com/member/Kerotan) — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:27:43 -0700

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I've been on Videosift for a while, and I've only ever reached a bronze star, which was recently taken away from me with videosift 4.0, but that's not the issue here.

The issue here is that, the simple invocations, (blocked, NSFW, long and brief), are unavailable till silver star, do I really need to sift 50 videos in order to tell that a video is longer than 600 seconds?, likewise for blocked, and brief, the only one that I could see an issue with is NSFW, which is open to interpretation, and is not objective.

But quite frankly, its a sorry state of affairs when I have to spam comments to get the *blocked invocation on a video.

It seems quite unreasonable and rather idiotic to keep it this way.

- Kerotan

Is http://nigger.videosift.com/ really an address we want?

JiggaJonson (http://terrible.videosift.com/member/JiggaJonson) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:50:47 -0700

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In my back-and-forth with burdturgler I noticed his personal subdomain name was "nigger" and consequently the address linking to his profile is listed as " http://nigger.videosift.com/ " also his "Favorite Tags: Spook"

I'm sure stirring the pot on this matter will only cause more drama but if you dont like it, dont comment. IF personal attacks are ok, as established via my last sifttalk post, and nigger.videosift.com is ok where do we draw the line exactly?

- JiggaJonson

If Westy Gets Hobbled for a however long for making a Joke

JiggaJonson (http://terrible.videosift.com/member/JiggaJonson) — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:21:13 -0700

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What kind of response does this deserve then?
http://www.videosift.com/video/Ann-Coulter-More-Lies-About-Obama-s-Health-Plan#comment-832086

"I heard from a reliable source that QM sucks dick left and right."
-budzos
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I'm not trying to be a prick about it and I have my disagreements with QM as much as anyone else; but if personal attacks like this are being tossed around and QM is made to be on the receiving end of them, open and honest discourse degenerates into a food fight in a middle school lunchroom.

I'm all for a heated debate, but we need to keep it civil, and it should be frowned upon especially in cases where the community is in strong opposition of the opinions of those being attacked.

- JiggaJonson

Ponceleon's Identify the Movie Challenge

ponceleon (http://terrible.videosift.com/member/ponceleon) — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:26:10 -0700

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Okay, so when I was a kid growing up in Puerto Rico, I remember seeing this weird movie when I was relatively young. As best as I can remember, this movie seemed to be something from before the 80s, though it might be early 80s at the latest. More likely though, this was something from either the 60s or 70s which had just been put on TV and dubbed into Spanish.

I don't know if this was a US film or not and worse, I only remember one scene:

At the very end of the movie, a man and a woman are put into this giant machine. The interior of the machine may have had throw pillows in it. When the machine is turned on, all sorts of 60s/70s psychedelic special effects happen and they are fused into one hermaphrodite-like being that walks out of the chamber to some macabre sounding music...

For some reason that scene always stuck with me, but I have never been able to identify the movie, likely some bad, seldom referenced sci-fi thingy.

A'ight sifters, have at it. Remember that since this happened on PR tv, it may not be a US film... very possibly it was foreign.

- ponceleon