I wasn't around here during that time but looking back at that massive wall of P's something fishy must have been going on. >> ^aspartam:
Wasn't it proven that that video was insanely popular because of some sort of hacking/gaming? Just look at how many first time sifters voted for it, never to vote again.
>> ^reiwan:
[...] it is a result of an insanely popular video

Wasn't it proven that that video was insanely popular because of some sort of hacking/gaming? Just look at how many first time sifters voted for it, never to vote again.
>> ^reiwan:
[...] it is a result of an insanely popular video

Ahhhh! I deny everything!!! oh, wait... =P

I've always thought it would be great feature to be able to sort like that as well. I'm a big fan of quality over quantity. So I try to find really good stuff to bring to the sift.

The highest ratio I've found is this guy. But it is a result of an insanely popular video combined with only submitting 3 videos. For a sorting mechanism like this to be useful, there would need to be some way to take into account the number of videos posted by the user vs. their ratio to really get a sense of the quality they sift. I hope I'm making sense =)

oh and im up to 56.36 now *stabby stabby*

This video has seconded as a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof seconded by dotdude.

*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/The-most-amazing-ukelele-playing-you-will-ever-see-Jake-Shimabukuro

This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by lucky760. If this nomination is seconded, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.

It's a young Jake Shimabukuro!

Awesome. I look forward to your interviews. Obviously Jake Shimabukuro needs to be tracked down at some point.

And it's s still #1: http://www.videosift.com/video/The-most-amazing-ukelele-playing-you-will-ever-see-Jake-Shimabukuro

But this is only behind by 62 votes: http://www.videosift.com/video/Best-home-made-lightsaber-duel-ever

Let's amass a campaign to overtake it!

He's the Jake Shimabukuro of the accordion.

Attention please: http://music.videosift.com/talk/Jake-Shimabukuro-needs-help

I believe the number of votes on it has reached colossal proportions, and now requires several super-computers to keep it operational.

Either way, http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jake+shimabukuro

I think I somehow stumbled upon a video of Jake Shimabukuro playing the ukulele. I then lost the url and later googled it to find it again and BAM, the sift introduced itself to me.

I lurked for over a year then finally gave in and registered when I felt I really needed to upvote some stuff.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

I agree with you that there is something special about this - it's what YouTube videos do best - make you feel like you're sitting in the living room of this guy's house experiencing it. I hate super-polished studio music.

>> ^arvana:
>> ^dag:
Fantastic - an amazingly great performance, though shouldn't be compared to Jake.

Agreed -- that was a tongue-in-cheek goad, just to remind the Jake vid that it's still human.
I think there is something special about this video too. It's certainly not a technically perfect performance, but there is something about its casualness that feels very intimate.

>> ^dag:
Fantastic - an amazingly great performance, though shouldn't be compared to Jake.


Agreed -- that was a tongue-in-cheek goad, just to remind the Jake vid that it's still human.

I think there is something special about this video too. It's certainly not a technically perfect performance, but there is something about its casualness that feels very intimate.