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You need to sift another 93 videos to use the promote invocation on another sifter's vids (gold star required).

Once you are silver you can call quality, which is almost as good. As a lurker, I always used to skip over the promoted video tab anyway, and I'm sure I wasn't the only one.

You can, of course, self promote as a shortcut if you go charter (or buy ad-hoc power points)... but to promote other peoples videos you need to do the legwork to get your own ones sifted first.

Now for the reason I wanted to leave you a note: By the time you have sifted 100 videos you will have worked out that there are many ways to promote a video, and using the promote invocation is only one of them. Upvoting a clever or witty comment gets it into the "recently upvoted comments" tab, putting in a clever or witty comment tends to draw folks in (from reading the recent comment stream), spamming the user profiles of everyone you think will like the video works rather well too There's always the option of starting a playlist of similarly cool videos, a cool title helps.

The guitar video had actually already been promoted by ctrlaltbleach, so even if you had the power points and a gold star, sifty would still have refused to listen.

Didn't KP tell you this once?
In reply to this comment by turboj0e:
yeah, i didnt think so. I still dont know how to promote

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