Should We Restore Votes to Whatever Videos We Can?
We were lucky enough to find an old pile of vote data from the start up to about a year and a half ago. In addition to that, a couple of tech savvy members have been attempting to "hack" the Google and Yahoo caches of our video pages to find whatever vote data they could.
What we want to know from you is how would you feel about restoring only partial vote data?
We can definitely restore essentially all votes that were cast up until about Sept 2, 2007. Using google/yahoo cache data, we *might* be able to restore more. I say might because our attempts to get our hands on the data are still ongoing and as every minute passes, the chances of finding data decrease. There could be zero videos updated from the cache info or a few dozen or a few hundred and probably not much above that.
This will mean that videos and users who were successful up to that point will be the best ranked stuff right now. And it would be up to you the community to re-cast your votes for everything in between.
It might be best just to leave the level playing field we created as-is so all videos start out from scratch. But this will benefit newer videos since they get viewed and voted on the most.
What say you?
Make sure you take a look at the other poll:
http://www.videosift.com/poll/Should-We-Restore-JUST-Vote-Counts-to-Videos
9 Comments
kronosposeidonQuite the dilemma. I'm going to vote "no," because even though new videos will have an edge if we choose that path, that edge won't be even close to the edge that old videos (and old members) will have if you restore their old votes.
I think a lot of conscientious members are currently scouring their playlists, bookmarks, comments, etc. to restore votes. As imperfect as that is, it's still better than restoring old votes only to old videos. If we could restore well over 90% of the votes then I would be comfortable with it, but going back to September of 2007 effectively cuts VS's lifespan in half with regards to this site's age. And since there are more active members in the last 1.5 yrs than in the the first 1.5 yrs, you're screwing the new videos even more if you restored old votes.
I can't go for that. Sorry.
mauz15I say do the restore because there are a lot of older members that were big contributors and will likely not get all the votes they had because many have left, so many active users never met them or even remember them. Plus, you would be saving us a lot of upvoting work that probably would not be done because as the upvoting gets more and more tedious, the older videos will be visited less and less.
yoghurtIf you could combine the restore options given in both polls that would be sweet. Older vids would have voter info, but all vids would still keep their rankings roughly... if I understand it correctly.
mauz15>> ^kronosposeidon:
because even though new videos will have an edge if we choose that path, that edge won't be even close to the edge that old videos (and old members) will have if you restore their old votes.
Really? there was a time your video will sift with 3 or 5 votes (dont remember) and reaching 25 votes was this huge thing.
Top 15 videos now reach at least 40 and up to 100+ votes.
lucky760If no one objects, I might just discard this poll and focus on the other one.
I think it's clear that's the solution we should be considering.
burdturglera.
fucking two polls are confusing the issue
b.
fuck
burdturglerplease do
lucky760*discard
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