I have 30 Apple trees, 7-10 cherry trees, peach, nectarines, etc. That means I've read through dozens of gardening books trying to learn how to keep them alive and bearing.

My loquacious lexicon, while not always perspicacitious or erudite, is invariably sesquipedalian if not also outright eldritch. Thank my mom, a top notch professional editor, head of Stanford's publishing wing for decades....also, I like to be weird, especially considering what "normal" is today.

Edit:I also enjoy my "lost word of the day" calendars that offer a word or phrase of the day that's been lost to common English.

The only time I'm going to scream like that is when I meet an Eldritch Horror.

...before I burst into flame and my eyes melt that is.

What kind of eldritch abomination was that? The best goddamn kind...

*quality

although I was kinda hoping for a classic reinterpretation of the solo

I keep getting dark poetry:

The eldritch chains and leather,
The haunting rites of blood,
Instruments of random murder.

Death church.
Sodomy and lust.
Sleepless, no love lost,
Set me free.

Blowing free,
Naked in the rain.
The hanged man,
The pyrrhic victory.
Creepy green light.

Totentanz, the dance of death.
I'm alive - sacrificed.
I'm going home,
Die with me.

Pain.
Burnt.
I'm broken.
Mother, do you love me?

Nightmare lollipop.
Bittersweet.
Red, white and blue.
Witches' brew.

Ruin and misery,
Becoming cold,
Shadows on the horizon,
Death certificate.

Running blood.
I died for you.
Death comes to the Unicorn Prince.
Betrayal. Gloom.

Hero of the day,
Dragged down,
Slaughtered.
Where the slime live,
Where dragons rule.

Ah, now we're getting into more eldritch territory.

1) The exact formula is only known to @lucky760 and @dag and has not been revealed as far as I know. It does indeed involve how long they have been there, "hotness" is the used term. IF you get many views, it gets hotter. If it gets many votes it gets even hotter. Quality affects hotness as well, boosting it enough to become the first listed video just under promoted videos. The Sweden video likely got the 20 votes in very rapid succession, which boosted it up. If it doesn't get more votes/views it will fall down in the queue fast.

The difference between promoted and quality is that promoted do not affect hotness and only "floats" the video for a given period. The quality gives a one-of boost to the hotness, so it will have to subside as normal hotness does, which means that if it gets a lot of votes after being qualitied, it stays there for a while. At this point, quality is far better at getting more votes and views than promote, in my experience.

2) As you say. If you mark it private, only you and the recipient can see it. (And likely the admins if they look directly in the database, but they don't really do that.)

3) You direct your bug reports @lucky760 or that's what I do, anyway.

If I were part of the one percent, I would do things like produce movies and video games, sponsor MMA fighters and comedians, and/or melt the icy shores of Antarctica to free the eldritch gods I serve.

Upvote because it truly is eldritch.