Charter Member

• Absolutely no ads
• Personal Blog
• Seven (7) concurrent submission slots in the unsifted queue
• Two (2) Power Points per recharge period
• Personal subdomain for your member profile, e.g., siftbot.videosift.com
• Personalized colorizing for your username and comment background
• Customizable styling for your member profile
• Random Personal Queue videos listed on your profile
• Use a YouTube video for your avatar image in comments

Probationary Member

• Limited to one video in the queue
• May be banned for breaking VideoSift rules and guidelines
• Self promote^1,3 - use *promote (see Standard Member below) on a post of your own
• *kill¹ - permanently discard your own video
• *beg² - send one of your own personal queued videos to Beggar's Canyon

Standard Member

• 5 videos allowed in the queue at one time
• May be banned for breaking VideoSift rules and guidelines
• Able to create Playlists
• May cast upvotes on comments
• Participation in the Sift Lounge chat room
• *promote^1,2,6 - float a post at the top of the corresponding listing; renew queue time for queued/discarded videos
• *doublepromote^3,6 - same as *promote but doubles the time the post is floated

Bronze Star Member (25 Stars)

• All abilities of standard members
• May submit Flash videos from any video source
• Able to cast downvotes
• May cast downvotes on comments
• Immune from banning
• Able to fix deadpool videos
• Able to replace own video thumbnail images and other member video thumbnails
• *dead - flag a published or pqueued video as no longer working
• *notdead¹ - reset a functional video accidentally flagged dead
• *findthumb - update the thumbnail image for a video
• *discuss - send a video to Sift Talk for discussion
• *length=hh:mm:ss - specify the duration of other member videos (not for your own post)
• *related=http://... - add a related post to a post

Silver Star Member (50 Stars)

• All abilities of Bronze Star
• Able to start community Polls in Sift Talk
• *discard¹ - remove a post submitted by a banned user
• *return - return a *discussed post from Sift Talk
• *nsfw - flag a post as being Not Suitable For Work
• *blocked / *unblocked¹ - flag a video as (not) having a region blocked embed
• *brief - flag a video as being shorter than 1 minute
• *long - flag a video as being longer than 10 minutes
• *notbrief - remove *brief flag from a video
• *notlong - remove *long flag from a video
• *nochannel - remove a post from all channels (not for your own post)
• *[channel subdomain] - add other member post to the specified channel (not for your own post)
• *ban - nominate or second a post's submitter for banning
• *quality² - for videos, boost the post in the Hotness listing; for Sift Talk posts, award the submitter 1 Star Point; only once per post
• Able to chat in Sift Lounge
• *backup=[<embed...>]⁵ - Add alternate embed code to a video post

Gold Star Member (100 Stars)

• All abilities of Silver Star
• Able to include images in Sift Talk posts
• Able to edit video tags of other members
• May flag comments as spam
• *frontpage⁴ - send a Sift Talk or Blog post to the front page
• *dupeof=http://...¹ - nominate a video as being a duplicate of another (not if the original post is your own)
• *isdupe - second a dupeof nomination
• *spammer - ban-hammer spammers and redact their comments

Ruby Member and Diamond Member (250 Stars), (500 Stars)

• All abilities of Gold Star
• May create, stylize, and run a video channel (my_topic.videosift.com)
• Able to hobble and insta-ban problem members
• May replace a post's video with backup embed code
• *sticky² - keep a Sift Talk post at the top of the listing
• *unsticky - remove a stickied Sift Talk post

Crown Member (1000 Stars)

• All abilities of Ruby and Diamond Members
• May use YouTube video for avatar
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Galaxy Member ? (2000 Stars)

• All abilities of Crown Members
• Custom, artist-designed profile badge and username icon
• Custom song written and performed by dag
• One permanent extra queue slot
• Lifetime complimentary Charter membership