I want to see the bloopers reel.

http://imgur.com/a/EmhRt
So, the first part is just me moving around a few things to make more room, because I think the top of the site is wasting lots of space.

I think the Promoted videos loks sort of like ads, but the sift of the week is exactly like an ad to me - look at picture 2 where it has an ad right above it.

I would like to see the whole right side bar only use small things, while the left main page can show big things.

When something is promoted to the front page like bareboards2's post, I would want that above the promoted videos, as it seems to break the flow of reading - and * frontpage should be more powerful than * promote.

There's something off about the promoted videos. They obviously try to squish in the title in small font so it can be shown, but at the same time it feels weird I think. Compare a promoted thumbnail with a regular one:
http://i.imgur.com/GFnBp.jpg
The bottom bar on the regular one actually presses in vital information about comments, which is the centerpoint of the sift, together with the videos themselves. This should not be overlooked - the promote needs something like that.

The "Featured" banner is unnecessary - "show, don't tell". We know it's featured, because the damn thing is right in our faces!

I also can't see who posted the video, which is part of my "1 second evaluation" of whether or not I should give the video a chance. There are people I know have tastes that correspond to mine, so this will often give a video that I've already "passed" a second chance at my precious vote/view.

Here's a quick mock-up of a different, but similar way of doing it:
http://i.imgur.com/Hqets.jpg

As for the mechanical way of having only three at the top at any point, I think it gives the wrong incentives.

They will only rotate out when someone "knocks another one down", so there's inherent trolling in that.

There's uncertainty in what you get for your precious powerpoint, uncertainty ALWAYS lead to inaction - so people are scared off and won't use them at all.

@dag mentioned the guiding principles:

"1. Changes should promote altruistic social behavior and limit self-interest (that's been with us since the beginning)
2. Changes should increase the usefulness of the site"

If you can align both points in the first, that's much better. People are inherently self interested first and altruistic after that. Just "consuming" videos is a self-interested thing as well, so we have to make it as easy for someone to absorb the content as possible. For the posters, we also must give the fitting incentives for providing value to the site, but the two types of visitors and two very different animals (although almost all posters are also viewers).

I feel the promote system limits the usefulness of the site for the posters. I don't really want to promote anything, because it'll just be gone again as soon as anyone else gets the idea of posting. I also have to consider whether or not I want the currently promoted video to stick around a little longer before posting - maybe the promoted videos are something I don't like, so me and my posse of late night sifters keep promoting them away from the promote reel with our videos of Maru, the wonder-cat, jumping into things.

I hope my ramblings and child-like drawings make sense.

It's Passion Pit! This song is Swimming in the Flood. I enjoyed the video immensely because of this.

Here's a link to the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4oB00TCb7Y

You may have heard Passion Pit before in ad campaigns, their song Sleepyhead: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0RvPYRRRbE

Also The Reeling, a great song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U-Ul5qnLeQ

There, hope you enjoy Passion Pit as much as I do!

Practical question: how is this guy still out on the street? Married? With a child? What?

If I find out this is part of some demo reel, I will be upset.

I think she revealed a bit too much info in this. Career limiting, off-putting not only to her subscribers, but prospective agents.
With no expertise to draw from, I also dare ponder if this video actually serves his psycho ego beyond the content. He wants reaction and know he still impacts her, and this is a really fulsome response than he could ever have had otherwise, and more than in person, he can watch this over and over knowing she consciously shot this, edited it, and posted it for all to see.

My uninformed opinion is that I think she needs therapy, further therapy. I'm not saying that flippantly - her having experienced what she did, she may not ever be over it, but posting a public YouTube video with this details and introspection may not provide her with the solace she's seeking. And even if that's not what she's seeking, I don't think it helps.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

I never really apologized for my paranoia back when you joined the site. I'm sorry, Pumkin and Playhouse. You are both good people.


While sock-puppeting here from necessity during a rile with a few users that lasted until i shot myself in the head before putting up with their utter, mob-wrangling BULLSHIT!!....I watched as you, reeling from blanfist's meltdown that yer butt-buddy was on the depart (burnout), accused these obsessive cat-ladies of some vile conspiracy...LOWERING yourself to false accreditation and accusation not unlike (naming names of the departed next) blankfist, chronospos-*can't type it all because of the utterly self-aggrandizing and retarded handle chosen) and a few other taunting cohorts fanning the flames of their chaos.....And I thought to myself, "God, what a bunch of fucking retarded douchebags?!"...Not you dytopfutyyydy NO!, you always the devil's advocate and that with a modicum of civility and fucking snap....unlike the children you poked as they sat in their sweat-soaked chairs the sputum and smoke coating their monitors as the masturbated to the delight of their developmentally-disabled cronies here on Videosift. I encouraged them as wel;l, not saying I wasn't as guilty....I simply don;t have the need to be well-liked by everyone....I'm so glad to know that you still don;t either!

Way to make nice with the ladies there, Don Fucking Juan!!!

Kudos and dinner with dancing for you two newbie-fixtures, kindest folk here for quite some time...This place needed more cat videos, bet yer both happy that now yer jobs close to complete, RIGHT!!???

You people ever ban ol' choggie-chinga again and there's gonna be some fucking hell to pay, lemme tellls ya!!

Your video, President Barack Obama: Charismabot 2000 v2.0, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

*promote. What a highlight reel.

You joke, but I fear him plenty, just somewhat less than Romney. http://videosift.com/video/TYT-Julian-Assange-is-Now-Enemy-Of-State is rising much faster than this video, and it's Obama who declared Assange "the enemy". Obama is not a good person who does good things. I think it's less in his nature to do bad things, but he still does the bidding of his masters. That much is indisputable fact.>> ^PostalBlowfish:

Man, you people reacting favorably to the nice guy must be on some drugs or something.
You should fear nice people irrationally!

>> ^kymbos:

Damn, he's charming.


Yeah kymbo, and it should scare the fucking hellll out of you!!

>> ^Fantomas:

>> ^Hive13:
I kinda want to sleep with him now for some reason.

I know what you mean.
Not in a sexual way, but just have him spoon you and tell you heartwarming things as you drift off to sleep.


Yikes?! Someones took them blue pills!!

>> ^Hive13:
I kinda want to sleep with him now for some reason.

I know what you mean.

Not in a sexual way, but just have him spoon you and tell you heartwarming things as you drift off to sleep.

Yoink!>> ^Kofi:

Charismabot 2000

As opposed to President Barack Obama: Charismabot 2000 v2.0.

That is pretty much exactly what I said, he does not have an ideology of his own except for the one he was spoon fed his entire life but when that fails he is just a business man and he can weave in and out of it as long as his writers queue him up for it. Romney is a total right winger though, when I have heard him being himself is when he is making vast generalizations with conviction... that is a staple for that sect of thought.

>> ^messenger:

This isn't about conservative/liberal. Te point is that Romney himself is nothing. He's not conservative. He's no liberal. He's just a politician out to get votes any way that he can. Nothing else.
"These are my principles! And if you don't like them, I have others.">> ^shagen454:
The problem with conservatives is that they are supposed to stay the same. Which is why most of them that never leave the farm are about just as good as the cows eating the feed and then they get all tangled up in the masses who have all of these opinions and culture... ITS SO CONFUSING being an elitist, rich piece of right wing turd.