I personally like how things are but, if there is a problem, it's not the submissions, it's the votes. Changing the queue sizes won't affect that. Especially if they're decreased by the same ratio for everyone. Same goes for changing time that it's queued or votes that it needs to sift. If only one cute kitten video (or whatever it is you think is not SiftWorthy) can be published at a time, then it will, if people vote for it.

>> ^my15minutes:
ok. that was one of the things i was driving at, yes. channel creation.
and maybe it is more of a carrot, than i think, to some sifters, as you say...


If people have the channel carrot hanging in front of them and they're after it, I think that's a positive, and the way it was intended. It means they're interested in being a part of and having an impact on this site. You certainly can't get one overnight, it takes quite a few months at the very least, and anyone who hits 250 deserves one.

>> ^gorillaman:
Or ditch some of the stuff that gets the mediocre videos through in the first place. Beggar's Abyss has no value, and probies really shouldn't be voting.


Beggars canyon does have value. It's not just about getting mediocre videos through. It's another chance to get some attention for your submissions that others might have missed. I've had several videos sifted by using it and once they published they got decent votes. It's also the only thing, besides *.beg that you can spend a power point on until you are gold (unless you buy points or are charter). You may be right on probies voting, though I'm certain a lot of people do come here to just enjoy the videos and vote on the ones they like. I think VS would lose significant traffic if they couldn't.

Not everything on this site has to be the best of the best. Sometimes people just need to chill out and have a quick laugh. If they're enjoying whatever the latest idiotic video is, there's nothing wrong with that.

There's tons of filtering options and ways to view this site. I think the default listing for unsifted videos should be changed to newest queue date so that people who are interested in catching up or doing "quality control" can just scroll through the submissions as they were posted. I also think people need to get over down voting. If you really have a hard on for videos that aren't good enough to be here then vote them down. If the community agrees with you, then problem solved. But, I'm sure if I looked I'd find every one of us has voted for stupid shit.

Actually, rembar linked me to this the other day. I myself found it totally hilarious, especially the sound effects, but I'm pretty sure that this is still considered porn (despite passing the dag wood test), and I feel that we should maintain our standard of "no porn videos on the sift." It's funny, and linking your friends to it for a quick laugh is fine, but I just don't feel like it's something that belongs on the sift, as defined by the site's rules.

If the consensus is that it's not porn and can stay, I'll upvote it and hope it goes to the top 15, but I just felt that this was definitely pushing if not crossing the line.

The other one is more polished with good site gags and background music, but this one is good for a quick laugh. Anybody have any info on which came first?