lol..

Some of us submit good videos that are entertaining or of some quality or at least unique and interesting.

Other people just submit the same stuff ad naseaum. (See: GI JOE PSA from years ago) (See: endless parade of kitty doggie videos)

Some people try to be the first to submit regular type series that are the kind on the top10 of digg and most of the internet (See: Zero Punctuation) (see: chad vader)

Some people just like their own unique tastes to be posted everywhere, this is usually certain types of music videos.

A lot of the top people just see a video from whatever means the use to aggregate videos and recognize those destined for top honors and submit those.

A better question is where do people cull videos from the internet from. Most people do not watch 1000s of newly submitted 10 view YT videos, so there is already some major sifting before they get submitted to aggregation sifting/voting sites like this one.

Occasionally, people will just try to fill out a niche that is otherwise ignored on the internet, like cooking videos or horrorshow videos back when a contest is run or halloween time. This site is unique in that there are not really hard core channel fans, like a video gaming forum might see only those videos, etc.

Anyways, this site started with a certain relatively small group of users and the types of videos that others like were reinforced, so people that enjoyed that blend of videos came back because it was useful for delivering certain content. Eventually those that value the content make an account and add their own, usually somewhat similar tastes, or if it was not it would be ignored.

This site is really not that much different than the digg top10 list, but it does have to opportunity to provide more unique finds. There used to be great japanese and korean content, which has mostly died down, partly because of the massive YT purges of jtv content. Same goes with adultswim content that was once submitted, but pretty much useless now because those videos will soon be dead, so copyright holders can actually stifle the distrubution to larger audiences.. dee doo doo

For instance, for awhile it was all Colbert stuff, but that died off either as a fad, or the YT embed being killed by copyright holders, and then the annoying US only ability to play Comedy Central embeds. So much content is ignored from corporations trying to control their content.

I think in general the answer you are looking for from at least this collective of users if providing a place to be able to quickly and effortlessly watch good videos and avoid a bunch of useless crap. In some ways I think people submit videos to return the favor and keep the house of cards afloat, so there is a communal aspect to it, and many of the videos are a you-have-to-see-this. For the record, this site is not that much different than a fark submission, or at least the early days on this site had that appeal, but fark is a also almost a decade past jumping the shark.

You should visit GodTube as another concept of the secluded pockets of the internets where it used to be fun sport to submit some classic godtube content.

It makes sense for them to do it... Bastards that they are...

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
You know what sucks? Is that the original video had been sitting there at Dailymotion for AGES, but it wasn't even posted here more than half a damn day before DM pulled the plug on it. I know that the record and film companies regularly scour this site, along with others like Milk & Cookies and Fark. I was just talking to maatc about this the other day.

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You know what sucks? Is that the original video had been sitting there at Dailymotion for AGES, but it wasn't even posted here more than half a damn day before DM pulled the plug on it. I know that the record and film companies regularly scour this site, along with others like Milk & Cookies and Fark. I was just talking to maatc about this the other day.

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In reply to this comment by Zifnab:
I knew that if it was live I'd upvote it as I like that tune, since a queued vid can't be marked as dead and it was sitting at 9 votes that I might as well upvote then mark as dead .

Thanks for the promote on the Onion vid as well.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Thanks for voting for my dead video. I fixed it, BTW. I knew the thought of voting a dead video out of someone's queue would haunt you forever if it remained unfixed.

\m/

In reply to this comment by Zifnab:
*dead

This is awesome. Congratulations. If anyone deserves this, you do, Eklek. You have brought so many cool videos here. You're what helps to set this place apart from the likes of Fark and I-Am-Bored. Keep up the great work, and I can't wait to see your new channel.

Saw that photo on Fark this morning. Rickrolling gone big time now?

You are one of the most dispicable souls I've ever come across on the internet. Our country is in a world of hurt precisely because of people like you and your politics, yet you are the very first to accuse anybody who disagrees with you of being a traitor or of being a communist.

You deserve every insult, and worse.

'Preciate that, I don't feel the same way about you so your "hatred" is a waste of time. You're reacting to poisons you imbibed yourself, of your own free will. If you're younger than 25, you've been cheated out of learning real American history and values, and therefore have NO IDEA what has been lost.

The Pilgrims left Europe to get away from the very shit Obama is pushing: people living to serve government, in exchange for being taken care of like children.

That's not the American Way, and if the socialists win it still won't be. Ever.

The people hurt by "my" politics want a guaranteed happy ending to life, paid for by the government, and they'll blame anyone but themselves when they don't get it. Fark 'em. Feed 'em fish heads.

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Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 0%
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1. it presents the existing feeds that some of the reddit
Fark
Digg
GameTrailers
College Humor
LiveLeak
sites provide in a easy to read webpage.

Those sites provide a protocol for webpage authors like dag to incorporate into new webpages. The protocol consists of new videos.

2. It automates the first step for the submission of new videos to videosift.

>> ^MycroftHomlz:
This is what I study. If anyone wants to know.


and youre getting a real kick out of these replies?

...

yes I brought a Fark cliche into the sift...

http://www.videosift.com/video/Average-Homeboys-Return

In reply to this comment by therealblankman:
Farking brilliant. I wonder what this guy does these days. Hopefully he's in prison where he can't do any more damage.

*beg for more sun (cloudy, 65F right now in Irvine, CA). Farking June Gloom....

*discard (2 votes? no farking way...)

I take the hilarity of this Fark byproduct as proof of the infinite monkey theorem

I'll pull the trigger on this. That's a pretty dramatic effect, their black contrails. And the underground nuclear effect was neat, too. The song was just good enough.

Ass clown? Someone must have left the door open because some Fark blew in.

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We are scraping:
Digg
Reddit
Fark
Collegehumor
Gametrailers
VideoSift

Of course we will add more to this list.

It updates ever 2-3 minutes.

That's a very good idea Zeph about a filter. Would it be better to filter via check boxes- or something like a select box where you can display only videos from a single host?

Also, yeah paging will come eventually Fedquip.