I wonder from time to time whether a member ought to have been here for a certain amount of time before they get a channel, so that we have some assurance they mean to stay around for a while.

Time and again we see "grinders" who show up, ride a wave of nutshots and kittens to ruby in a month, and then burn out and never come back. We should avoid giving channels to these members.

I also think the moderator job should be "use it or lose it" and that channels that cannot function cleanly without an active moderator (viral, sexuality, terrible, cult, vintage, basically any channel that requires you to read the description) should be locked so they cannot be invoked or selected until a new moderator is selected. They could still be viewed and browsed, just no new content.

Or I guess we could keep doing what we've been doing, and treat channels as meaningless decorations that we display to the left of our video submissions.

I always make a cake of some sort on my birthday. I don't decorate it or anything like that. Just a yummy cake. I might put candles on top of it, because fire. I also make the cake for immediate family member's birthday. My brother prefers pie, so he gets a coconut cream pie. Etc.

I would never consider it a chore to make a cake for someone I love. I really enjoy baking and that selfish satisfaction derived from watching someone eat it happily.

I always get this happy sense of fuck all on my birthday. Yay, birthdays!

After using a Windows Phone for a little more than a year, I can actually say that I don't like the Metro design language. I was all about it, back when I got the phone (Proof: http://braindonut.com/2010/11/20/windows-phone-7-thoughts/) and not many people can believe that I ever liked "Modern UI" or Metro, because I so very much dislike it nowadays.

I think I was just hungry for anything that was different and new. The problem was that it was like living in a dreary, international modernism, concrete building. At first, I appreciated the clean lines, the simple forms... No decoration. "Purely digital." But after a while, it started getting really boring. REALLY dreary.

Microsoft designed a set of design patterns that are made for getting in and out of your phone, quickly. They made it no nonsense - and it's elegant in that objective. But I don't want to get in and out of my phone. I want to live in that little thing. It's an extension of my daily life. And when I live somewhere, I don't want the walls all painted white and everything to be stark rectangles.

There's a big movement right now in design. Microsoft and Apple are kind of leading the opposing charges. Having existed in both worlds for a long while, I can honestly say I'd rather live in Apple's ecosystem. Sure, they could do things to make the iPhone more efficient within certain tasks, but on the whole, iPhone offers a superior experience. A lot of that is due to how much their OS is designed for an App ecosystem, while Microsoft struggles in this area. Even Windows 8 makes installed apps a pain in the ass to deal with.

So yeah, "Modern UI" is neat, different, ballsy. But I can't wait for the inevitable "Postmodern UI" response.

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Love the office decor!

@Nexxus Even without the hatred tag, what about 'judge not lest ye be judged.'? The bigotry is really getting old.

Edit: Potentially relevant, I used to decorate cakes and one time a customer wanted a cake that said, "Eat shit." with a penguin standing next to a pile of poo, replete with flies. I made it, of course. Because that was my job.

16:20 - I would be interested in seeing the complete category list for whichever governing body or organization bestows an award for taking five loads on the face.

Btw, Monté... no, she's not a whore. Not at all. And neither are you for sticking around for the money and nice clothes. After all, it's just a job, right? Just a job. Temporary. It's just what she does NOW. I see a bright future for you both as a couple. Country home, white picket fence, two dogs, cat, kids. Grandkids spending Christmas with you and grandma Cagney some number of years from now, the whole setting right out of Rockwell's brain. The Christmas tree you all went and cut down yourselves, tied to the roof of the station wagon, mounted to a stand you made out of 2x4s and an old sign, decorated with ornaments you and your wife collected over decades and popcorn strung buy the children, a roaring fire in the fireplace (a wonderful necessity since moving from Cali to Montana), four stockings hung over it with names lovingly embroidered in gold by grandma Cagney, and there, atop the mantel, grandma's award for Best Multiple Cumshots to The Face Scene. Can't you just smell the chestnuts?

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Seen houses with more for decoration in their front yards.

But if they aren't even following their own codes, she should absolutely sue them. Especially when they didn't let the courts work it out.

they had to cgi the source video to remove backgrounds i think! lies! also im watching it on a computer so i am a lie


there should be some interesting work to be done, if you can port your textures from the computer to an object and change your make-up/sets cheaply... remember the blank room overlayed with projectors to change its decor

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I like the human body and thats that.

The big tummy because I have been getting the munchies like a Mo**erfu*ker and such avatar exhibits that fact.

Mostly my avatar changes with mood/inspiration, however the sad clown theme is special because I just really like sad clown paintings. They are extremely expressive with the eyes. I think I developed a hobby with the clown avatars, I want to decorate my walls with these pictures. However I do not have any of these pictures, nor frames. Like I said, it is in the developing stages.

Evenin sir.

You have been awarded 1 Power Point for fixing the embed code for Dead Pool video How It's Made - Decorative Candles. Thank you for helping maintain VideoSift's reliability.

That's quite the decorative bird feeder there!

Good point about google analytics. You can't interpret any of that data as representative of popularity or usefulness of different features, but it could certainly help point out where users are focusing their attention in the interface itself (are the submenus more or less used? what's the most common path to submitting a video?).

Minimalism can be, but isn't necessarily, a design goal. The Principle of Least Surprise should absolutely be one. There shouldn't be submenus that look and behave differently. The variety of decorations and information surrounding a video on the single video page is unnecessarily complex. Much of the information is of a similar nature (meta data about the video), but is presented about a half dozen different ways, sometimes redundantly. Another goal should be to group similar or related activities together, which they are to some extent now, but could be better consolidated. (Why are the different community activities - SiftTalk, Lounge, Blogs, etc. - all separated?)

I'm trying (somewhat unsuccessfully) to avoid specific suggestions to one area of functionality because this is the kind of change that needs to be comprehensive, not achieved with a lot of tweaks to the existing interface. The latter method is how it got where it is now, slowly accumulating elements and features for over two and half years since the last major overhaul of the interface. Given everything that's been added or changed since then, it's probably time to consider another overhaul.

>> ^peggedbea:

>> ^NetRunner:

How about the people who will go out, and donate money, volunteer for, and vote for a guy like this? Can they be saved? Can the rest of us be saved from them?

i find this really interesting. i have two really, really badass friends. They're eclectic neo pagans. They support gay marriage. They love pre-marital sex. They love kinky sex. They give their children advice on masturbation and safe sex. They are not themselves swingers, but they hang out with lots of them. They smoke pot. They both have master's degrees in health science fields. They decorate their "yule" tree with pentagrams. They're really intelligent, groovy people. and They love Rick Santorum and Sarah Palin. I can't even ask them about it because we made a pact a long time ago that we wouldn't discuss politics. Because it makes our heads explode. BUT THIS MYSTERY IS MAKING MY HEAD WANT TO EXPLODE.


That is the most fucked up thing I read here on videosift.

>> ^NetRunner:


How about the people who will go out, and donate money, volunteer for, and vote for a guy like this? Can they be saved? Can the rest of us be saved from them?


i find this really interesting. i have two really, really badass friends. They're eclectic neo pagans. They support gay marriage. They love pre-marital sex. They love kinky sex. They give their children advice on masturbation and safe sex. They are not themselves swingers, but they hang out with lots of them. They smoke pot. They both have master's degrees in health science fields. They decorate their "yule" tree with pentagrams. They're really intelligent, groovy people. and They love Rick Santorum and Sarah Palin. I can't even ask them about it because we made a pact a long time ago that we wouldn't discuss politics. Because it makes our heads explode. BUT THIS MYSTERY IS MAKING MY HEAD WANT TO EXPLODE.