In reply to this comment by oritteropo:
Per the Star power list, silver and above can add backup embeds, then you get a "backup" link below the video. When you click on it, you get a redirect like this:

http://videosift.com/video/Herman-Dne-I-Wish-That-I-Co
uld-See-You-Soon-1?showbackup=5275

Promote puts a video into the "promoted" floatover box for a few hours, but also re-queues it into unsifted... and it might boost the hotness too, not sure.

Quality moves a video up the front page, to just below the promoted ones when it's first invoked... then as other ones come along with more votes or other qualities they move down... http://videosift.com/video/She-and-Him-Thieves-Jimmy-Kimmel-Live is still on the first page, after having quality invoked last night. If you always sort the front page by newness instead of hotness, you are likely to be puzzled about what it does :
In reply to this comment by pumkinandstorm:
That one worked! I didn't know you could put backup embeds. I really have a lot to learn! Thank you for noticing...silver is almost in my grasp. Woohoo! My sift addiction is driving me insane. I love it here. :) What is the difference between calling quality and promote?


Thanks so much for the great explanation and for being so helpful! I can't wait to call "quality"!

I have fixed a video you *dead'd some months ago, if you still want to watch it now you can:
http://videosift.com/video/She-and-Him-Thieves-Jimmy-Kimmel-Live

That's probably one of the saddest scenes that I've seen in awhile. What happened is in the beginning, she and him and some other people are trying to survive and hiding out.

The zombies end up breaking in though and dude ends up being a coward and escapes while he can, leaving the rest of them (his wife right there included) to die.

Turns out she didn't die, and is partially immune to the virus. The kids leave the compound in stereotypical zombie movie fashion and return to their old house. Upstairs though they find a surprise: a half in control half dead mother walking towards them telling them to run the fuck away.

Anyways to make a long story short, the kids report what happened, the woman is extracted, dude finds out she's still alive and asks her for forgiveness. She forgives, they kiss... and then he turns into a zombie and brutally murders her.

Pretty damned sad.