Being able to pqueue early - suggestion
Since VS 5.0 is coming out at some point, I was wondering if anybody else would want to have the ability to move videos to your pqueue earlier than after 2 days?
I am sure everybody has had the situation where your unsifted video has 3 or 4 votes, it has been out there for over a day, and you just know it is not going to sift unless it gets promoted. It won't show up on the 'Top 15 Videos Expiring Soon' and otherwise it is buried somewhere deep in the far-from-front-pages.
You could either promote it, or have some friendly soul find it and promote it. You can just sit and wait patiently until it expires and goes to your pqueue, but it will take the remaining time until it gets to 2 days. Or you can discard it, then dig it out later and either resubmit it, or promote it out of the discarded pile.
Promoting costs power points, which you might not have. Also, you might not want to discard your video, since you think it is good and you want it to be at least in your pqueue so people can find it - Vote for it when they check out your pqueue, maybe even promote it.
I was wondering if it would be a good idea to have a command to retire a video to pqueue after one day (or EDIT 36 hours or so). Only the submitter of the video could use it. Call it *pqueue or something, or * retire (or would that get mixed with * return?)
Please do not beat me with sticks if this is a bad idea! ('Sticks and stones may break my bones. But chains and whips excite me.' Rihanna
)
I am sure everybody has had the situation where your unsifted video has 3 or 4 votes, it has been out there for over a day, and you just know it is not going to sift unless it gets promoted. It won't show up on the 'Top 15 Videos Expiring Soon' and otherwise it is buried somewhere deep in the far-from-front-pages.
You could either promote it, or have some friendly soul find it and promote it. You can just sit and wait patiently until it expires and goes to your pqueue, but it will take the remaining time until it gets to 2 days. Or you can discard it, then dig it out later and either resubmit it, or promote it out of the discarded pile.
Promoting costs power points, which you might not have. Also, you might not want to discard your video, since you think it is good and you want it to be at least in your pqueue so people can find it - Vote for it when they check out your pqueue, maybe even promote it.
I was wondering if it would be a good idea to have a command to retire a video to pqueue after one day (or EDIT 36 hours or so). Only the submitter of the video could use it. Call it *pqueue or something, or * retire (or would that get mixed with * return?)
Please do not beat me with sticks if this is a bad idea! ('Sticks and stones may break my bones. But chains and whips excite me.' Rihanna
)
9 Comments
HybridIn this case, for videos that only gain 3-4 votes in 12 hours or so, unless it's something I really want to keep on the sift, I'll tend to discard or kill them. Ignoring promotes and qualities, if it's just a normal video getting a few votes, then it'll be too "cold" to stand a chance of getting into the Top 15.
But that's personal preference really... I want the vast majority of my vids to hit Top 15. Others just want them to hit 10 votes so they sift and get the star point. Others care about the sheer number of votes a video gets, to keep their average votes per video high.
Anyway, it might be a nice feature, but I myself would never use it, I'd still go for the discard/kill...... but again personal preference.
IssykittyOMG you did NOT just quote Rihanna song lyrics in your Sift Talk Post... lolol @mintbbb
IssykittyOh, and I agree with @Hybrid ...discard or kill a vid to free up your queue.
kulpimsI like your idea, @mintbbb. *retire!
Issykitty*sabbatical?
shagen454I understand this sentiment but I think it's fine the way it is now. I'm one of those people that doesn't pimp vids often and I post a lot of music that is only going to get 3-4 votes. I look at it as a community project the longer we're creating a good archive of music - in the future we'll hopefully get new audiophile/music nerd Sift members. It's a sacrifice to have to wait those 2 days but I think it's worth it to keep the Sift a well oiled "Quality Control" machine.
bareboards2As someone who has a lot of low vote videos that I take a great deal of pleasure in having on the Sift, I think it is good that my choice to hang on to something that isn't universally appreciated has a "price tag."
The Sift has a huge number of vids it is maintaining access to -- and I don't think that comes free. I'm not a computer literate person, but haven't I seen something that intimates that there is a cost associated with maintaining that access?
If I choose to hang on to a poorly performing vid, I think I should "pay" for that choice.
It does tie in to quality control issues, too.
Also...
I remember how overwhelming this site was when I first started posting vids. To complicate it further seems unnecessary.
Although I too appreciate the sentiment.
mintbbb*discard
siftbotDiscarding this post - discard requested by original submitter mintbbb.
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