And no, Spiderman's most embarassing moment is NOT being captured in a thumbnail in a pose that makes him look like a cross between a pepperoni and a penis.

There seems to be an upvote drought on the Sift these days.

>> ^blankfist:

There seems to be an upvote drought on the Sift these days.


The larger a community gets, the less individual responsibility people feel, right? Bystander effect on upvoting.

lol I kinda wish I hadn't discarded my upload of this video a few days ago. lesson learned
video is hilarious and the thumbnail is random.

>> ^Gallowflak:
>> ^blankfist:
There seems to be an upvote drought on the Sift these days.

The larger a community gets, the less individual responsibility people feel, right? Bystander effect on upvoting.


also the comment frequency has decreased vastly, guess for the same reason the upvotes have. that and the complete overselling (a shop? seriously?) i believe are the first few bricks in videosift's gravestone.

You're going to die?

Spider-Man belly-flopped and all you can think of is yourself.

Without question, that is an image of a semi-erect, circumsized penis of an adult, human male.>> ^Retroboy:

And no, Spiderman's most embarassing moment is NOT being captured in a thumbnail in a pose that makes him look like a cross between a pepperoni and a penis.

Yuck. Who'd rescue her?

As opposed to the female penis right?>> ^freernuts:

Without question, that is an image of a semi-erect, circumsized penis of an adult, human male.

>> ^Samaelsmith:

As opposed to the female penis right?>> ^freernuts:
Without question, that is an image of a semi-erect, circumsized penis of an adult, human male.


haha touché

Except it's not anyone's responsibility to upvote videos.

If anyone thinks their videos aren't getting enough votes, they should try submitting something that doesn't suck so much instead of blaming the rest of us for not voting for it.

>> ^Gallowflak:

>> ^blankfist:
There seems to be an upvote drought on the Sift these days.

The larger a community gets, the less individual responsibility people feel, right? Bystander effect on upvoting.

Ultimately I have only so much time in the day to watch and vote for videos on the sift. I do not have access to a computer at work, however there are wireless sources around;

I do have a Samsung Galaxy S coming in a couple weeks which will boost said time significantly and help add a few votes here and there. On a site where hundreds of videos are uploaded every hour, you can only do so much.

@xxovercastxx

Ooh, ouch.

No, it's not a responsibility to upvote. It's a responsibility to participate in the community of which you're a part. It's this second sense of responsibility which I suggested was being diluted by the increasing scale of the site.

Is there a problem here?

[redacted]

Was long essay asking why this conversation occured in a video instead of the site's chat.

I probably sounded pretty snide but that wasn't my intent.

My point is every few months someone with a diamond or higher starts complaining about how hard it is to get videos sifted. This is almost inevitably followed by requests to lower the threshold.

First, the irony of someone with a few hundred or more sifted videos complaining about how hard it is to sift them is like a multi-millionaire complaining that his income has dropped in the recession.

Second, the last thing we need to do is lower the threshold. We have more than enough toothless dogs, Japanese gameshows, Jessica Rabbit fanart slideshows, and Funny or Die clips without lowering the bar.

If someone can't get votes, maybe they should sift something that sucks less. At the very least, do what I do, and grumble to yourself about it.

Also, apologies to @blankfist who is the apparent recipient of my ranting here. It's not meant to be directed at him, but I've seen this happen enough to know that his comment is the type that will snowball into a mass hysteria like I've described.

>> ^Gallowflak:

@xxovercastxx
Ooh, ouch.
No, it's not a responsibility to upvote. It's a responsibility to participate in the community of which you're a part. It's this second sense of responsibility which I suggested was being diluted by the increasing scale of the site.
Is there a problem here?

There seems to be a nice people drought on the Sift these days.