I find it quite amusing to see how common it is for people to attack generalizations with specifics.

Such as:
"Women are overall less funny than men." (Hitch's point)
"No way, omg, Tina Fay/Whoever is SO much funnier than people like Robin Williams/Blah blah blah. And I know tons of women that also are!"

That would be like saying:
"Men are generally stronger than women"
"No way! I know this one bodybuilding chick that could squat you to death!"

Or better yet, so that it won't offend anyone but monkeys:
"Primates have around 5 times the upper body strength of a human male."
"Bah, I once arm wrestled a young monkey that had been in a coma for 2 years and totally beat him!"

Seriously, people, not all generalizations are wrong, generalizations are human nature. Think they're not? What's your general opinion of someone who is jobless? Or lawyers? Yeah, I'm sure none of you have any opinion of either based on past experiences.

It's only when we allow our generalizations to force upon us a way of treating someone that it becomes bad. Such as pre-judging the lawyer as a jerk and not being nice to him, or pre-judging women comedians by not going to a comedy club on an all ladies night.

Don't deny your nature, accommodate it. I guarantee you that there are differences in both the nature and nurture of EVERYONE, and some of it can even be generalized! #shocker#

Why would you not do it?

There is a little psychology involved with the queue and the few queue regulars out there. Maybe I should conduct some experiments. So if a video in the first few pages (fresh) of the queue only has 1 or 0 votes, it is likely a dud and usually ignored. If it has 2 or three at least someone else liked it. 6 or 7 early on is a hit and I almost always autovote it even if I don't watch it or wouldn't like it, because it is hot enough and with enough interest that it probably is good.

So, leaving your submission sitting with a "0" for too long can cost you votes in the queue.

Now the other side of the equation is videos sitting deep in the queue can linger mostly because of age, and no one is checking out the end of the queue until a video is about to expire and there are some people who do check those out to try and save any that need saved.

You may often have a video lingering with 8 or 9 votes.. and never get that last one. So if you didn't auto vote your submission as mentioned above, it is helpful to save that last vote to put a video over the top (as in 90s arm wrestling movie).

So, for questionable, random videos always immediately give yourself a vote to give the video a chance.

For obviously good videos that will garner a few votes, save the self-vote until it needs it later on.

Ya think I probably have given this too much thought...

(I need the disable account for one week feature.. please Dag, implement this feature for poor addicts)

akis usually does a bit of powerball before (and after?) weight training. - fiarly sure hes into arm wrestling.

anyhow, yeah their actually really good if you use them right.

Chad? Isn't that the guy he was arm wrestling with when he caused the big bang?