Should full promoting privileges be available to all non-probationary members?

posted by SDGundamX 9 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 12,539 views
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A total of 18 votes have been cast on this poll.


Just trying to move things along since Retroboy's SiftTalk "How about a little love for long-time but low-star members?"

It came up in the thread that it is a bit absurd that long-time members in good standing who don't reach silver or bronze can accrue tons of power points but can't actually use them on anything except to promote their own videos. Since most of them who stay at that level are not interested in submitting vids but are interested in participating on the site, this poll is asking whether Sifters think it would be okay if non-probies had full promote privileges (in other words, they could promote either their own or other Sifters' videos). This would allow them to spend their power points altruistically by promoting others' vids to greatness.

I can't foresee any problems with allowing it, but if you think of an issue go ahead and bring it up in the comments.

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eric3579 says...

Thank you @SDGundamX. *quality and *promote

Agreed! Id like to see members beyond probationary (red P) have the ability to promote a video.

I say make the change and adjust as we go if for some reason seams necessary.

siftbot says...

Only published, queued, or discarded videos, published Sift Talk posts, and published blog posts may be promoted - ignoring promote request by eric3579.

Retroboy says...

Thank you Gundam.

I would be interested in reading the rationale behind why a number of people voted "no".

And by the way, I was stopped from noting a video was region-blocked earlier tonight as well. There's no damn reason for that at all.

Honestly Sifty's getting close to the point of making me go full non-voting lurker mode.

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