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Nice work Lucky. I just went and filtered everything out, it's a good way to find stuff that hasn't been channelized yet.

I think if we want to channel every video, then we are going to need some more channels. I suggest:

war.videosit.com
and
shock.videosift.com

I think shock could be called something better like amaze, or awe. It could contain ones that make you gasp and go OMG etc etc.

How about cartoon.videosift.com?

We have been thinking about some new channels, my suggestions were

animation (which would include cartoons)
art
shorts (like film shorts, art could maybe be part of this)
nature
documentaries (nature could probably fall under this one)

at any rate as you can see it would be pretty easy for us to add a ton of them. So we are trying to go slowly and come up with a good list of solid possible new ones. We will probably put it to the community in a week or so. We want to give everyone a chance to get used to the channels before we add a lot more.

animation/cartoon and documentaries (relates to nature -- think of PBS) would be good.

"Film" could be a large umbrella for shorts, art, arthouse, nature and documentary. I'm suggesting this because a number of the big name directors have done documentaries recently.

art & animation & photography (timelapse, stopmotion) & short films --> call it "arts"
animals & nature --> call it "nature"
sports, cars, planes, etc --> call it "action"

i don't think you should have channels based on a medium (film) or style (documentary). channels should be based on content. otherwise almost everything falls under multiple categories, like (film + comedy) or (nature + documentary).

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For the Arts channel, it would be fun to dress the Sifter as a Warhol soup can. ;-)

Can I have my own channel called ants? J/K!

animated should not be in arts unless you are talking about obviously artistic ones.

cartoons, claymation, animated (stop-motion), anime --> toons
science & nature & animal documentaries --> (not cute animals) (obviously broader than jsut geek stuff)
commercials, ads, viral ads --> advert
hit in nuts, owned, shocking, etc --> afv/owned
shorts, documentary -> film
sports, motorcycle, cars, planes, skydivers -> action

most "toons" are cartoons and are currently in the comedy channel.

i don't think there should be a separate "ad" channel, just like there shouldn't be a separate "film" channel. if the video is worth watching, it's going to get votes because of the content, not because it's an advert (or a short film) as such. most will fit into one of the other channels (comedy, arts, nature, whatever), anyway.

there doesn't have to be a channel for everything.

there should be a seperate 'ads' channel. I view them like a nsfw checkbox. It would cut down on the need to police astroturfing and people making accounts to put out viral ads. Their ads would just get tagged ads. And I could not view any ads, just like not viewing nsfw.

well then, maybe add a flag in the same place as "nsfw". and a "hide ads" in the top bar. i wonder how much demand there would be for that filter...

I concur with the call for an "action" channel.

I hadn't considered it necessary for ads/commercials to have their own channels and yet... it makes sense.

Shorts/film seem to be kissing cousins - probably would include documentaries.

Arts is definitely one that should be set up too.

I think action can include "owned" etc - all the smart\stupid-stunt/"ouch"/"pain"/"top gear" vids that aren't geeky. As well as explosion/military/war-related things.

I like the soup can.