So, I've taken notice to the amounts of people unhappy with the quality of videos obtaining the vote threshold and making it onto the front page. Also, I have noticed people are unhappy with the lack of the more obscure being able to make it to the front page. It has dawned on me that anything you do to change our system to help one of these issues, will adversely affect the other.

For instance, we currently have a personal queue. That gives obscure videos the ability to marinate until enough people think that it's sift-worthy. However, that also makes it so that videos of less quality can eventually find the attention they might not deserve.

If we were to change the pqueue and make a time limit on videos (the old way), we would be holding some of the lower quality videos at bay, but it would hold back some of the more obscurely beautiful videos that already struggle.

As far as adding more votes to the threshold, that would do nothing but fatten up pqueues and put a longer time incubation period on a video's escape time (crappy or obscure).

Here's what I offer as a solution. This solution was brought up by farhad in this comment regarding the elevation of escape threshold votes and I think he's dead on. We must change our culture to value and use the downvote more. Not maliciously or just because the video is not your cup of tea, but to protect our own personal voice of what this site should be.

Think of it this way, if everybody were to recondition our methodology to use the downvote more often to control the content of this site, it would increase the value of the upvote and the optioned nonvote. So please don't be offended by anybody's downvote.

And, to beat blankfist to the punch, go ahead and downvote my pqueue if you find something you don't think should be on this site.