We already have that. Look on the right side of the queue, there's a little box you can check to "hide videos you've already voted on." Don't worry about it, I missed it too.

So if I check that in the Queue then it translates for the whole site? Seems those settings are only for the Queue.

Not sure, just give it a try.

That's what I'm saying, I already did. It's a feature unique to the Queue.

It's not THAT huge of a deal. There really isn't that much on the front page. I can easily burn right through all the vids that interest me in a day's worth in about an hour.

Oy! I'm not talking about the flippin' front page I'm talking abot *ALL the videos on videosift, the tab that says TOP VIDEOS. Hit the tab, pull down and select ALL and you'll see about 1800 pages of videos. THAT is what I want to narrow down!

Ahem, pardon my exasperation.

Pardoned... I guess...

I dunno... it's obviously not for me to answer, I was just confused what you were asking for.

Hmmm. Perhaps I'll clarify.

do you really have to be so overpowering karaidl?
gorgons been around for ages, and came up with a damn good idea in my opinion.
I do realise you are young and you have a great enthusiasm for the site, but you don't have to go round acting like the Videosift police.

gorgs: i like the idea mate, surely this will be something Dag or lucky will claim is coming in v3.0

Overpowering??? Sift police??? All I said was I didn't get what he was talking about. Sorry if I was the only one responding. Didn't say the idea wasn't good, in fact, I like it. All he was trying to do was explain it to me.

It's unfortunate that well over 75% of communication is non-verbal. So much is lost in text that can't be expressed in a SiftTalk format. I say we all be friends again... and all that other stuff I learned from watching Care Bears too many times.

mate it's not just this thread, it's in general. This community has been around for a while now, and it has it's own pace, people have a tendency to come and go, but generally the overall attitude is positive and honest.
I'm just telling you how I feel about this, he clearly explained himself in the original post, if you took the time to read it instead of skim it, it wouldn't have confused you.

*quality

Gold Star member ren has awarded gorgonheap one published post for this quality Sift Talk contribution.

Cheers

I like your suggestion. It would be helpful for concentrating on the videos you haven't seen that have made it out of the queue.

There is currently a hide this video playlist. Sadly we are planning on scrapping that in VS 3.0 as it makes database loads prohibitively expensive in processor time per user. If any code ninjas can think of a good way to do this that is not prohibitively processor expensive we would love to hear about your ideas.

Well Ren, I make A LOT of comments, I'm not gonna deny that. Probably more than any other Sifter. But just cuz you don't doesn't make it a crime. I think I'll keep on commmenting as much as I please, and if you don't like it, tough shit.

I'm not what you would call a code monkey. Probably more like a code Neanderthal. I think I might have accidentily typed a line of C++ on a computer one day. But that's not important right now.

Forgive my ignorance but it seems to me that making the option available on a persons profile settings wouldn't burn out the processors. But like I say I don't know jack so I'm probably just making up crap.

Well maybe someday when VS becomes a Fortune 500 company. In the mean time any code wizards that could throw in suggestions. I think this would vastly improve the site and give the user a deeper experience and further engross them in their addiction to the site.

There is currently a hide this video playlist. Sadly we are planning on scrapping that in VS 3.0 as it makes database loads prohibitively expensive in processor time per user. If any code ninjas can think of a good way to do this that is not prohibitively processor expensive we would love to hear about your ideas.

I guess playlists are implemented with an EAV table, and this is the reason it makes it very slow: you have to check in the playlist table every video, don't you?

Now, for every video you already check if the user voted it or not, and according to the result you display the voting arrows or you display the "you already voted".

Now, I guess there's another EAV table where you record votes. This table probably has fields "video_id, user_id, vote", and vote may have 3 values: not voted, upvoted, downvoted. Since you already check that table, adding a fourth value would be no problem, wouldn't it?
Well, this could mean converting the field from boolean to tinyint, if you use a db that supports booleans, but you could give it a try.

About the interface, you could add a "=" sign near the voting arrows, that behaves just like a vote, only you can change idea later and really vote it, or simply "unhide" it. Also an option in the preferences to show anyway hidden videos would be nice.

James, I think Looris has your answer. And may have become a god too, I'm not sure.

actually, I do already be a god, apparently