Downvoting is an interesting case that I thought about quite a bit.

I think it *could* go to the Regular Member level, but I'm fine with it staying at Bronze Star because:
* Downvoting is a bit more subject to abuse than the bookkeeping invocations I mentioned before, mainly because it can auto-discard things that get downvoted early. Right?
* IF downvoting was as integral a function as upvoting, I'd say that regular members should get it. BUT, either by design or just as the emergent de-facto standard, it isn't used very much -- even amongst those that have access to it.
* There are some exceptions to that trend, like, say, @ant. Even though that seems to get under some people's skin, I like the way ant uses downvoting -- especially when considered to be a perk reserved for the real upper echelons of contributing members.
* BUT, all of that is primarily relevant to *video* downvoting. *Comment* downvoting isn't as critical / exploitable, so it seems like that could be made available to members before they can downvote videos. I would sometimes like to have that ability, but if the powers that be feel that it should be reserved for Star-level, I don't feel strongly enough about it to push.


I think that's probably all my thoughts on the topic. Thanks again to @Retroboy for bringing it up for discussion, and to @lucky760 / dag et al. for considering it.

Oops. I wrote a response a day ago and thought I clicked submit, but I guess I forgot and closed the window. So, short version:

@SDGundamX covered the main thing, promoting. But in general, several of the Bronze Star functions that are more like bookkeeping things rather than actual "perks" seem like stuff that members-but-not-sifters like me could help with.

Stuff like invocations for dead, related, length ... that kind of stuff.

I'm definitely not losing any sleep over not having any of those things, but I think that regular members (before star level) could probably be trusted to help with those simple bookkeeping things.

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Howdy

Had a question that I wanted to ask before, that I never got round to before I dinged silver, but still could potentially confuse new and/or bronze people.

On this page, just below the new badges, in the "Other Changes" section, 3rd bullet point, Dag mentions that now Bronze Stars can submit videos from any source. However on this page, under Silver Star Member, it says can submit flash video from any source.

My query therefore is, is it Bronze or Silver that grants you this privilege?

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