Ok folks, not wanting to look like a moron here, but is there any way of "linkifying" posts like we used to be able to on the old sift? I've checked the FAQ & can't see anything about it. On the old layout, there used to be a little button in the top left corner of the comment box that you just clicked on & the mighty Siftbot did the rest.

Hope this makes sense, enjoy the rest of the festive season & thanks in advance.

The stockings are now hung with care from the air conditioner vent here in Australia. Whether it's Kwanzaa, the solstice, Chanukah, Festivus or just time off - I wish you all good tidings and a happy New Year. I made you some eggnog.

Seeing as how the world didn't end, it seemed it would be sensible to finally complete re-implementation of the "My Unsifted Videos" and "My Latest Videos" links in the header navigation.

Under the "My VideoSift" header tab you'll now find those two friendly old faces staring you smack-dab in the kisser. Click to see the corresponding video listings. Have a nice day!

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I've changed "My Recent Videos" to "My Latest Videos" and made it so instead of listing videos from the past however-many days, it will always simply display the last 10 videos, regardless of how long ago they were submitted.

I always found it kind of bothersome to open up the recent videos list only to find that my videos were not submitted recently enough, so they were no longer displayed.

everybody to the lounge -- it's the END OF THE WORLD 12-21-2012 par-taaaaaay

http://videosift.com/chat

I was just thinking about buying powerpoints and clicked through to that page. Decided to click on Issykitty's name. The page loads for a second then is replaced by this scary thing;




What should we make of this? Recently inserted dodgy links or existing link on the profile page that is now gone bad?

Or false positive?

Hey @Issykitty!

I've noticed that there's no easy way to access the VideoSift blog listing anymore after the change to 5.0. One has to manually type in http://videosift.com/blog in the address bar or follow a direct link to someone's blog. Could we please add a link somewhere on the frontpage, perhaps as a choice in the 'USERS' dropdown menu?

I suggest calling this choice 'Personal Blogs' or 'VideoSift Blogs' to differentiate from the main parts of the site.

I have a little print-out by my desk that says "strive for clarity but be comfortable with ambiguity". Since we've launched VideoSift 5.0 there has been quite a bit of ambiguity about promotes, power points and other features. Even though @lucky760 and I are here every day - we don't know everything about what makes VideoSift tick. It's like a pocket watch that's a blend of gears and some kind of plant that grows on its own and powers the watch.

By associating maximum power points to years of seniority on VideoSift - I didn't realize that we'd be causing real hurt feelings. If I was callous, I would say that many people were "butt-hurt". But I am not. Some Sifters thought that this was a deliberate effort to shoot down high-performing new members.

I can tell you for certain, this was never thought of by Lucky or myself. We tend to look at things on a systematic level- we try to to feed the plant and grease the gears that powers this mutant pocket watch.

What I can tell you is that the systematic problem that we wanted to fix, a small one about stock-piling of power points, is far outweighed by the trauma the solution seems to have caused. So, effective immediately, we've undone the change to limit maximum power points by years of Sift service. I hope this provides some clarity. Sorry for the pain.

You've probably seen the new look youtube. But I've just noticed the embeds are now not allowing full-screen mode (there's also a new speed selector).

For pity's sake why?

In the spirit of recent non-participation on the new Videosift 5.0 (post more videos people!) and, as threatened, chingalera formerly choggie is concocting a little cooking contest.

The last contest I crafted prior to being banned again by egos now strangely absent or non-participatory was greeted with much fanfare but very few played and I ended up winning my own contest!!
(http://videosift.com/video/IQ-s-Just-Went-Up)

The prize was a charter membership and a T-Shirt. My charter ran out abruptly when banned yet again, and the T-shirt rests folded in the bottom of a drawer (non-mothballed) folded and unworn....which brings us to the contest:

Instead of turning you chair-potatoes into videographers, we'd like recipes. Interested contestants will submit a recipe they think worthy and I shall chose three of them randomly and prepare them according to instructions, making a video of the process (perhaps I shall even edit it!) The winning dish shall be judged by a qualified third-party.

Enter the contest by submitting in a P.M. to my profile, a recipe using these guidelines:

~No desserts.

~You have to have eaten or sampled the same fare prepared according to the same recipe.

~No EPIC mealtime-type recipes (i.e. 20lbs of bacon, gallon of maple syrup, etc.) I'm poor and can't afford to waste food on gastric abortions.

The prevailing contestant will win the coveted T-shirt and 25 power points doled-out as fast as chingachoggie can resurrect deadpool videos.

Let chingalera cook for you! Then, watch him eat that which he's prepared in front of you, while you wear a tacky shirt!!

Entries must be in in before the doomsday ticker on the toppa this post runs out. Preparation begins after I recover form the New Year's festivities, earthquakes, floods, worldwide panic as Niburu passes and fucks up gravity, etc.

Holiday recipes welcome, may be your last.

Why not put the length of your video submission into the proper field and save someone else from having to do it. Knowing a videos length plays a huge part in having someone watch it.

If you have not noticed you have to edit the videos length when you are entering the information fields. Quit being so damn lazy eh !


That is all.

Please kindly view/see/look at my screen shot/capture: http://i.imgur.com/6WBz7.gif ...

What is that "1" for? I see it in both logged out and in sessions in my queue submission list.

Thank you in advance.

Dag and lucky are champs to work so hard on Sift5 and then stand there while we grouse and complain.

I would like to carve out this little space where we only talk about what we like about Sift5. So Dag and Lucky can bask a bit.

They deserve to bask for all that they have given us, yeah?

My oldest son is turning 2 at the end of this month and I've started to contemplate exactly how to follow through with my plan to mold him into a sci-fi geek. It's not that I'm big into sci-fi myself (though I like it, I'm not a fanatic and didn't grow up with it), but a kid's gotta be into something, and sci-fi geeks always tend to have more interest in more worthwhile, cerebral pursuits.

In any case, I figure Star Wars and/or Star Trek should be a part of his upbringing, though I won't introduce him to those things for a few more years. I just got to thinking about which one I should get him into first, then I started questioning if it should be both or just one or the other.

Everyone I've ever known of who is very into one or the other is always into just one or the other. Is that necessary? Can someone be very interested/invested in both franchises? Or can you only immerse your imagination into one pretend universe?

Are any of you hugely into both Star Wars and Star Trek? I also wonder if I should get them into comic books and D&D. Do you have another other thoughts on what else I should do to mold my sons into quality geeks?

Any channel owners notice this? I've tested in Chrome and Opera.

As someone who has to remove a fair few videos I now have to use nochannel like regular folk.

Any reason why this was removed? I've posted in the bugs thread and elsewhere but have had no response.

OK, I know I've brought this up before and nothing came of it but hear me out.

The default, when looking at Upcoming videos, (aka unsifted video), is set so they come up in the order of "Best votes-to-views ratio" every time I enter back to the Sift. We can select how these videos are listed, using tho drop down tool at the top right.

I think they should come up by default as "Newest Que Date." upon entering for my visit.

And here is why:
So, I Open the page and begin to watch and vote on the first page, I open two or three in new windows, watch them, vote, close them and then go back to the list for more. In the time I've voted on the past three, the page has reloaded and the videos are now in a different order. All of a sudden, I'm seeing videos at the bottom of the page that were previously at the top of the page.

To ad to this, every time I turn to the next page of videos, the order changes. Not only am I seeing the same video 4-5 times on different pages, but I'm also missing videos that are jumping around. This has got to be the most annoying thing I've experienced repeatedly on the Sift.

Now I know the obvious choice and solution is to just change my preference before viewing but I don't think I should have to reset this every time I'm here. I come back here several times per day to check the new postings and surprise-surprise, I forget to do it every time. Sometimes, yes, but not every time. I don't even realize it until I see the same video twice and go back searching for the "original" so I can dupe it, only to find out it was the same one that jumped around and has been on pages 1, 3 & 4. Bloody frustrating.

So is there a benefit to having "Best votes-to-views ratio" as the default setting?
I nominate ""Newest Que Date" as the new default.

I had misread the new limitation on power point accumulation and thought that power points were going to be better than before. Instead, earning power points from stellar performance is now severely limited. But nobody is talking about it. So I figured, well, nobody cares. But then I discovered someone else had misread the limitation. So maybe the silence is because more than just us two read it wrong? Do we all know that we can no longer earn power points in excess of the number of years we've been on the Sift? [edit] That noobs are limited to a maximum one power point for 1 year, 364 days, regardless of performance? [edit edit] Except they can buy more points....

ah, fuck it. just go there and check it out for yourself
http://videosift.com/member/MrFisk
PS: *gay as in "gay for you"