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Books that look like they were photoshopped (but are real) (Blog Entry by oxdottir)

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VideoSift Fundraiser (Sift Talk Post)

Krupo says...

>> ^Mekanikal:
I chipped in $25 and haven't gotten my little donor icon.


Yeah, the chip-in function isn't automatically associated with the donor icon thing. I was hoping for that too but as I understand what dag explained, they'll have to manually fix up those associations.

Wouldn't hurt to start slapping on some golden sift icons on the donors, eh?

Also, this should not be overlooked:


>> ^Farhad2000:
I really advocate a imposition of a buy in for being a member of VS along the lines of Something Awful and Meta Filter. It was $10 bucks for those sites.
But the exact level of restriction would have to be played around with i.e. what is public (Top15 maybe first 5 pages of content) and what is restricted (unsifted, search, video thumbs, top of all channels and other functions). It seems to have worked well for both examples I mentioned in maintaining a community for the long run.
The traffic will continue to grow. I think this donation drive while admirable, is a band aid solution for a longer term problem.


Seriously - this is important.

If you want the Sift to grow, you want the new joiners to have encouragement to make some contribution for "beyond basic" access.

At somethingawful the search is disabled for non-registered/paying.

Since one of the reasons for search is to find dupes, makes sense to make that something registered users only have access to (besides, google search is pretty good at finding our content anyway).

Old URLs wouldn't be locked, but people wouldn't casually barnstorm through the whole sift without at least a picture of dag (or Charms? ) politely inviting the visitor to join up if they like what they see...

We need a poll on which prominent Sifter would be the best 'endorsement' for such "join us" ads....

Make Me Laugh Saturday (pilot episode) (Parody Talk Post)

Ornthoron says...

Oldie (by internet standards) but goldie. Also NSFW.

Bodily fluids disaster story


"I originally wrote this story as a reply in one of those "funny drinking stories" threads a couple of months ago. It is a very embarrassing story about me when I was a stupid teenager, not that much different from a lot of people's drinking stories, but with a twist of lemon. Lots of people seemed to like it, so I thought I would illustrate and narrate the story in its own thread for maximum hilarity.

This all happened when I was 18 years old. I had dropped out of highschool twice by this point, ditched a lot of my friends because I was a selfish idiot and generally didn't give a gently caress about anything. I hardly ever ate anything and was skinny as gently caress, showered maybe once every three days, took a poo poo load of drugs and smoked like a chimney. I didn't have any prospects for the future. I just followed every impulse I had. I stole hundreds of dollars of stuff from the gas station I worked at. I stole poo poo from my parents. I shop lifted. I'm sure lots of people have been through a phase like this and I feel very sorry for all of you.

Basically, I was a creepy, disgusting and smelly gently caress that almost no one would ever let their daughter be friends with. Upon getting to know me, you would probably never want to see me again. (...) Continue reading"

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Money Stuff (Blog Entry by dag)

Krupo says...

>> ^jonny:
>> ^dag:
We do appreciate the contributions of Charter members - but from a cold, hard financial standpoint- our efforts in this regard have not worked out.
That's just what I was thinking of with the idea above. Revenue from members is so small because it's limited to such a small number of users. If you can tap the entire user base, or at least a large portion of it, while at the same time making the burden on any individual user minimal, then I think you've got a solution. I'm sure there are solutions other than my proposal that can accomplish the same goal.
The more I think about it, I think Krupo's got the right idea. Allow 1 post/day for all users; after that, it's a penny/post. Do you have any data on how many users post more than once per day? I'm pulling 1 post/day and 1 penny out of the air. Obviously you would want to base those numbers on some sort of analysis of usage patterns.


Crap, I was sleepy last night when I wrote that allow me to clarify...

>> ^spoco2:
Charging to post videos is just not a good idea at all. The lifeblood of the site IS the videos, so if you're effectively discouraging people from actually posting them... there goes your site. And saying 'but it's just a penny'... doesn't matter, it's the need to pay somehow, setup and account etc. etc.
It's all discouraging and would kill the site.


Don't get me wrong - we ALREADY CHARGE for posting more than 3 vids at a time. It's the charter. The idea would be a fee for pushing past a certain # of vids in the queue - i.e., a lower threshold.

The proposal: you still get one or two at a time gratis, but if you want to stuff the queue, you could buy the privilege (which charter members essentially already do with the 6-limit).

Here's the fun part: make it DIRT CHEAP to go from, say, 1 to 2. Like $1 a month. $12/year. Get 100 people to sign up for the $12/ultra-light-charter, boom, you have, um, $1200.

Obviously we would need about 30,000 people @ $1 each to cover costs for the year. This gets easier if you add additional "ladder steps" - $2/$5/$10 options to pull in more support.

I don't think we should push higher than the current "gold star full-ass charter" in terms of price... but you can give people 'a la carte' options to get closer to those features without taking them all. Customized user name, one fee, blog, another fee, URL, another, etc. So you can go bare-bones "Just let me have more powerpoints and queue slots" to the fancier end... allow "gift certificate" purchases for others, etc.

What I like about the somethingawful goons approach (mentioned above) is that there is LOTS of flexibiliy. One-time fee for certain benefits, higher fee for whatever.

Heck, you embrace a one-time "lifetime contributor" fee for the "1 to 2" jump, and have other ways of

The two key things to keep in mind is that:
1. Sifting stays FREE (at a basic 1/vid at a time level).
2. This enhances *qualitycontrol by encouraging people only to submit the best submission they have.

I also recommend, to avoid diluting powerpoints into an orgy of self*-promotes, that 2 powerpoints would also be redeemable for a free queue slot (for those who make quality contributions but for whatever reason don't want to go ultra-light-charter or anything along those lines - that's cool too - this is how we reward quality).

Just brainstorming - let me know what you think.

Slow Motion Genocide (Worldaffairs Talk Post)

Farhad2000 says...

I remember a while back people would post and say how VS was different then Youtube, especially in it's comments. I haven't seen anyone utter such a phrase in a long time.

I think it would be beneficial to lock down membership in the site the same way SomethingAwful and Metafiler has done through small monetary donation. Viewership would still be free however but not posting.

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Fanboy demands his Smash Brothers!

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perfectlysane says...

^ Just what I was about to point out. Did the goons get any credit from Diesel for the completely ripped off idea?
ETA- SomethingAwful did give credit to where they stole the idea. LOL



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