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I see your game, get you hooked on something free and then jack up the price! Like the giant cookie store in the mall...

I'll have to sleep on it.

Idea: consider sweetening the deal with a lower 'average per-month' fee if you prepay more for a longer period of time.

Observation: 8 vids? Whoa. Sounds hot but at the same time, 10 charter members = 80 queued vids. Eep?

mmmmmm ... i was thinking the same thing krupo regarding the 8 vid quota! while it sounds loverly ... i think it's a bit much! siftbot will be a busy bot!

i also noticed that when i went to make a donation, it was set up as $5 for 6 months ... error or ??? i will wait until that gets sorted ... i'm not one for scamming people!

Always happy to help out. PS, after paying, I got a 404 for join_complete.php

i dunno. we shall see if i'm wrong, but I think you could have just put up a donation link that got rolled into a charter member type setup. in some regards your best asset here is your loyal sifters. I'd rather you exhaust adsense and blogads and every ad program you can. The google ads would bring in enough cash to cover server bills. I don't think this will be a problem with how you've done it, but don't kill the golden goose here.

Honestly, I can't find 2 videos to submit that haven't been previously submitted. I worry the 8 videos just encouraging ads and self promotion.

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Thanks guys - as usual with new things around here, we have issues. If you've subscribed, let me know here and we'll fix you up manually.

So I'm not the only one who thinks 8 is excessive - cool.

I'd like to boldly suggest toning down the "8" to something less drastic (6, tops), but reducing the "refresh" rate of promote/save commands (something faster than a 7 day cycle)... of course this would only reinforce the charter's appeal for goldies, but then, they're probably the most likely suspects to embrace this.

Y'all can have six. I need somewhere between 15 and 38. For now, just set me up unlimited, and I'll find my happy place in a few weeks.

While we're at it, I would appreciate it if we renamed the site "oohahh-is-keen.com". I'll be sure to send out a new email with my pictures, preferred forms of address, and recommended house-warming gifts pour moi ASAP.

Thanks in advance, I love you all. Especially, you, Krupo.

I love the love.

Yes, unlimited.

Problem: I am logged in www.videosift.com, but I went to http://lucky760.videosift.com/ and it says I am not logged in.

Do donaters get a special icon or something to show the supporters?

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Hi Ant, I tried that, and it kept me logged in. What did you select in his profile that logged you out.

Better than a special icon, you get to color your username text and comment backgrounds. (light red even ;-) )

Dag: Ugh, I had to delete all my videosift cookies. Now, it works.

Stock options?

And when do we expect Google to buy for billions?

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Do you really think we would buckle under and sell-out for mere money? What do you take us for, good sir?




Pssst. Larry, Sergey -- email's in my profile. AND it's GMail (wink)

Or MS can buy VideoSift. [ducks]

OK, why can't I select the comment backgound color I want? (FFE920). I get a message telling me I must use a pastels (which it is), but makes me change the values, which will change the color...?

And I'm with Krupo, the queue's already big enough now (there's almost 200 in there as I write this), 8 may be a bit much...

Hmmm.. free sample indeed. Submitters are putting in the content which draws the visitors/pageviews. Guess you have our number - we're vote/feedback junkies. Let submitters buy just a little more juice now that 4 isn't giving the same high anymore

When AOL/calcanis wanted the top submitters from Digg, he was offering to pay them. Just saying. Somehow letting people buy more slots feels wrong. And yet I want to support the site, and would love more queue slots, but having tiered submissision rules feels..wrong.

Lucky's page reminds me of the Myspace ugly contest.

Sorry firefly, but that color is not "pastel enough." In order to prevent the entire site from looking like my current ugliest possible profile, the comment colors are restricted to soft pastels. This means two of the hex colors you specify must be at least "D0" and the third must be at least "F0". Sorry for the inconvenience but there are plenty of lovely shades to choose from! Just change that "20" in the color you want to a "D0" and you've got it!

Thanks lucky. I managed to fiddle around a bit more. This is as close to yellow as I can get.

I need a tutorial! I'm a total noob when it comes to changing settings like this. I would love to explore these new features, but where can I learn?

Also, you have it set up for a 3 month subscription? How about the option for a yearly membership? Just knock a whole year out at once and be done with it. :-)

Sorry for the technical vagueness being exhibited thus far. You're right, swampgirl. Here is a link to Wikipedia's entry on the subject (including a great list of some available colors). Please tell me if it isn't good enough as a tutorial as I may put a nice little tutorial together for absolute beginners, if so. Note that although comment colors may only be pastels, your username can be any color you'd like.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#Hex_triplet

lucky, can you add a few bumpups to the color when it comes to username text. swampgirl is now a ghost poster. I don't mind the background colors, that's cool, but her name is invisible. Maybe a choice of 16 colors for text colors. and you round to the nearest one.

With the username color, I think it's okay to allow *any* color because it is not obstructive enough to be an eyesore and if a charter member wants to have a name no one can see, I don't think we should stop them. What do the rest of you think?

once I finally found a color that siftbot accepted, I used it for both comments and username. It is a *bit* too light isn't it.

Just a tad. Have you looked at that link I gave you? There's a list of lots of great colors you can use for you username.

"once I finally found a color that siftbot accepted, I used it for both comments and username. It is a *bit* too light isn't it."

Hey?!...Who said that?!! *looks around*

One issue.. I liked the coloring for MY comments (sift blue), so I could find them, etc. Can this be reserved, cause some are close... and I keep think I posted twice, or replied to myself.. Oh well, I can just bear it. Maybe like v1.0 have the dotted outline again?

Just a quick question.
I understand the need to support VideoSift in order to keep the ship sailing smoothly etc but the problem is, I don't like paying for stuff. Therefore, can I have a free membership?

You already have a free membership, you just don't get any extra widgets and we're going to start showing you ads. Which is actually pretty much the same as you paying for a membership, only the money comes from advertisers instead of you.

Yep. Dag and James claim that:

"Of course you don't have to become a charter member, and free membership will continue to be open for all. We will be displaying some ads for non-charter members but nothing too garish (no pop-ups, intimate dating, or monkey-punching)."

But from my experience, here is what the Sift Lords omitted:

1) Your comments will not be brightly colored and people will thus stop reading them.
2) Your videos will languish in the queue while all the reliable voters get fixated by all the shiny and garishly colored personal pages.
3) Siftbot will taunt you mercilessly. Where it hurts.

Deathcow can finish the rest of the top 10 because he writes funnier and punchier material. But it is bleak, bleak, bleak to be a non-charter.

What would be awesome is to make non-charter posts get darker and darker, until at some point the background matches the text. (or make the text white). That would be a good april fools.

(BTW with FF extensions, you can do stuff like Disable Page Coloring and then you get white and blue happy sift, where everyone is equal.. But I do like the colors)

For picking non-pastel (e.g., username) colors, try Visibone's Colorlab

Shouldn't members who contributed actively to the site get a free membership? Especially anyone who joined before the 2.0 switch?

you do have a free membership, farhad ... just not all the beeps & whistles!

I'm in.

But now I've got to brush up on my CSS skills.

thanks oohahh for the link...I fixed my formerly invisible username

ye gods I hate the background colors.. maybe they'll grow on me.

See farhad, the members you're thinking of are the *most* likely to become chartered.

Hmm, "Chartered Sifter" - a "CS". First it's a term for teargas, now it's a term for a SiftLover.

I am getting ready to jump on the Charter bandwagon/train, but first I really really really have to binge on some "Sid Meier's Railroads!" (which I just bought...).

All aboard!

That Netflix ad is irritating as death though - stupid blinking light! Another incentive to go ahead and get chartered...

[psst - dag, James: talk to www.zip.ca about having their ad appear for Canadian users - otherwise it's wasted screen real estate]

Also - I concur on making the "your comments" reserved, so others can't use the default "personal" colour to reduce confusion.

And I'm with swampgirl on clamouring for a "yearly fee" charter membership option.

hmm, that's weird. I've never seen any ads on VS. There's Netflix ads?

That's because you are one of our prized charter members, swampgirl. They didn't get turned on until the charter features started. If you log out and browse around you won't be able to miss them.

ha! I just tried to logout to have a look at the ads. I can't logout! I clicked logout several times, but I'm locked in baby! :-)

This is just really annoying me. As representitive of VideoSift youth, how the hell am i going to pay for this if i don't have a credit/debit card?

Sorry darksun, it's a tough life.

No Shit Sherlock.

In case anyone's wondering, I've been working ridiculously long hours lately (and I got 4 computer games within a week) and as such, haven't gotten around to 1. doing much sifting, 2. doing the charter thing.

All in due time though.

i've gotten used to the colored comments, I did not think it would happen

The upgrade link above is 404.

Are you actually getting a 404 message? It's just redirecting me to my account preferences as it's supposed to for already charter members.