It depends.

Is total votes = votes of (sifted, unsifted, pq) or only of sifted videos?

If total votes is of all those, then total videos should also be of the same.

@lucky760, if you have time, would you change this? Pretty please.

^Yes, total votes = votes of (sifted + unsifted + PQ). Just ask the admins.

No need @kronosposeidon, I believe you. Just wasn't sure. Then yes, total videos should be all videos with votes on them, unsifted, PQ and sifted. This will, hopefully, discourage the PQ hoarding we see around too. The average rating needs to be more important to users for that to work well, though.

^I agree about PQ hoarding, but the main thing for me is just accurately recording the numbers here. If it's not an accurate number, then it either needs to be fixed or eliminated. There are a lot of stat nerds here, so I hope they're in agreement with us on this topic.

PQ hoarding is what keeps me in the top 15!

Ok, I agree with ^all that.

BUT, and I've asked this before - What exactly is the protocol on Pqueue's?

I've got an enormous PQ. Is it convention to try to trim it? I always figured killing vids was just a way to cover up failed sift attempts (and thus frowned upon) - but from reading some recent comments I gather that it's a desired exercise to trim the PQ?

Someone, help.

I don't think there's a protocol. It's your PQ, make it work how you want it to work. I've never understood (present company excluded) why some have gotten riled about personal queues filling up. They should change the name to "shit that didn't sift".

Blanky's right, throb brother. There is no protocol for PQ management. Do whatever you want with yours, up to and including nothing. Personally I'm not a big fan of the PQ, but I know I'm in the distinct minority on that.

Now if you ever accidentally ingest poison and need to immediately induce vomiting, just go through blankfist's PQ. Then maybe you'll understand why I'm not a big PQ fan, except under extraordinary circumstances.

If the average votes calculation gets altered to reflect PQ'd videos, then I'll go through the whole lot and kill them all, as I'm quite happy with my average votes per video right now.

I also like that the average votes calculation is only based on sifted videos.

I hate the PQ. It should be abolished.

By having a video in the PQ, the video is almost assuredly doomed to obscurity, since there's no good way to browse them - and no real reason to either. If the videos in a PQ were all killed, they could be sifted again at some point.

Some people like the PQ as an archive of things they like, which is all fine, but you can do that with discarded / killed videos too. Just make a playlist.

I used to be much stricter with my PQ, but I've become a little more lax as of late, so videos I don't think anyone else would sift are left there.

I've thought that maybe they could also include a separate stat just for sifted videos; i.e., Average Votes Per Sifted Video, the formula for which would be this:

Average Votes Per Sifted Video = Total Votes for Sifted Videos only/Sifted Videos

That then would be an accurate reflection of your Sifted video prowess. But to keep the formula the way it stands right now is both misleading and inaccurate. It's being calculated incorrectly, so the number is basically meaningless. That's why it either needs to be fixed or eliminated.

>> ^Hybrid:

If the average votes calculation gets altered to reflect PQ'd videos, then I'll go through the whole lot and kill them all, as I'm quite happy with my average votes per video right now.
I also like that the average votes calculation is only based on sifted videos.