I'm sure there is a secret police which can disappear folks, but no one knows any details. I'm sure siftbot has taken some people out behind the shed once or twice.

You are correct, it is surprising with this many people with pseudo-admin powers that rarely are they abused. Occasionally people will be ruthless with newbs, but in general you can ignore most 'problems' and they all die in the queue anyways, even without intervention.

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ren is still a newb!
i feel like a young harry potter trying to turn a frog into something non frog related

Ouch guys, I'm a newb. . .I had to submit something to join so that I could make snazzy comments like you. *blink blink*

Don't worry, I'll do better next time (maybe).

Either way, still a funny video.

Ok, I totally disagree with most of this, and I suppose it's because I'm a total newb here.

For one thing, 90% or more of the videos that linger in the queue eventually make it to front page. I'm not sure if it just an eventually thing, but I've submitted crap to see what happens and almost always makes it out. So as you double the users, you'll get the needed 6 votes.

If this site doubles, and you get me and other rock-the-boat users, they will assume, like most internet sites, rating are just for that, rating. Like youtube, or google, the idea is to rank vids to move up the list. So the assumption is that the up /down is to rank good vs. mediocre vids. Why get offended on a down vote? Now I see an arguement for a few users can knock a vid out of the new queue and possibility of abuse. Ok, fix that. But here's my philosophy.

I down vote total crap in the new queue. I downvote dupes (and yes there are a 100 in the queue and gold members don't take care of dupes quick enough). And after a vid has like 10 or 15 votes, I'll knock it down if I think it is mediocre.

So change the up/down buttons to approve/remove or promote/remove. That will change users behavior other than +1 / -1 mentality.