Jake was good, but not as good as the amount of votes it had. My downvote was my way of saying that folks should not have a vote frenzy over it again.



In reply to this comment by gorillaman:
On what principle are you downvoting videos you like?

In reply to this comment by swampgirl:
wtf? guys? as much as I love this video.. I must downvote now on principle.

On what principle are you downvoting videos you like?

In reply to this comment by swampgirl:
wtf? guys? as much as I love this video.. I must downvote now on principle.

I call shenanigans. Those Jake Shimabukuro haters have hit us right in the gut.

paul4dirt .. he tried to discard the top video on this site.
It wasn't an accident
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-most-amazing-ukelele-playing-you-will-ever-see-Jake-Shimabukuro#comment-657302

*nochannel, this isn't a production that someone green-lighted.

Actually, this is a good opportunity to point out that it *is* funny (*comedy) and *cute to be on *drugs for *kids. It's both a *dark and *happy vid, showing the external manifestation of drugs going *wtf to the brain.

Man this is hilarious, and the Sift's greatest hope ever to dethroning the ukulele.

It's only a matter of time before the escalopter gets eclipsed.

Wow. Jake Shimabukuro has really let himself go.

>> ^NordlichReiter:
Kreegath at least cat fart videos go through the sift on the table. Not under the table like this one did.
When I posted a cat fart video, I didn't go out to my YOUtube subscription members and ask for them to make accounts on the sift to get my video to be over 9000.


But you should've, because cat fart videos is what made the Sift.

I think we're fine now as is, at least until Jake Shimabukuro covers "Come Together" or "Something" like that.

Well it's not extremely difficult to find a good video..and in my proposal I did not state that it has to be necessary to have a sifted first post to be able to participate: a video in the (personal) queue should be good enough..I think this extra (yet easy) step makes community participation a lot more probable..

>> ^lucky760:
It's probably before your time gwiz, and I'm surprised no one else has mentioned it, but we already tried instituting a system like this a couple years ago. That was actually how the Probie system started. The problem with it was it made it extremely difficult for well intentioned new members to participate because they'd have to struggle to find a good video to get published, even if all they wanted to do was participate with votes and comments. Needless to say, our new memberships almost flat-lined.
And as dag said, this is a rare event. There is no sock puppetry going on with the Long Gone video. It's just that the video creator has a lot of fans/supporters (just as Jake Shimabukuro did) that he asked to help promote it. Since dag is the submitter (at the creator's request [he actually read the posting guidelines instead of just self-linking]), there're officially no shenanigans to redress.

It's probably before your time gwiz, and I'm surprised no one else has mentioned it, but we already tried instituting a system like this a couple years ago. That was actually how the Probie system started. The problem with it was it made it extremely difficult for well intentioned new members to participate because they'd have to struggle to find a good video to get published, even if all they wanted to do was participate with votes and comments. Needless to say, our new memberships almost flat-lined.

And as dag said, this is a rare event. There is no sock puppetry going on with the Long Gone video. It's just that the video creator has a lot of fans/supporters (just as Jake Shimabukuro did) that he asked to help promote it. Since dag is the submitter (at the creator's request [he actually read the posting guidelines instead of just self-linking]), there're officially no shenanigans to redress.

It's been done.

I think the video's great.

In other news, look at all the probie voters. It's like the next incarnation of Jake Shimabukuro has arrived.

My first post: http://www.videosift.com/video/The-most-amazing-ukelele-playing-you-will-ever-see-Jake-Shimabukuro

I am amazing.

>> ^MrFisk:
The Art of Sifting.
1. Seems the shorter a video, the more views/voting.
2. The more you sift and comment, the more friends/enemies you'll make, thus more views/voting.
3. A serious election year will inevitably and justifiably mean more political videos; cut the hogwash bellyaching.
4. Comedy is king.
5. Long is the opposite of the aforementioned.
6. Employ a nifty avatar.
7. Rock the boat.
8. One hand washes the other.
9. The tenth vote is crucial.
10. Beggars canyon is a dark and dreary alley, chalk-full of despair, disappointment, loneliness, and regret.


Fixed.

Take the voting power of the Piggers then we'll at least get rid of stuff like http://www.videosift.com/video/The-most-amazing-ukelele-playing-you-will-ever-see-Jake-Shimabukuro and similar aberrations. Piggers aren't real sifters, anyway. Their bodies are more adept at ocular labor than sifting. We should make a Pegrosift, only for P's where the colors are inverted.

Damn Piggers.

>> ^lucky760:
This is so great. It's more deserving of #1 than Jake Shimabukuro.
I don't know why it's in the terrible channel. This is marinating in awesomesauce.
doublepromote


Thanks for the promote! I put it in the terrible channel mostly because of the guy's singing skills. But I agree that the awesomeness outweighs this. Fixed it now.