So as the site has gotten larger we have occasionally received hate mail about the site. I do my best to respond politely to these, but we got one today from a user who gave us a fake email address. So I thought I would share it with you guys, as well as my response. Maybe he will come across it, maybe not, but at the very least it will give you guys a view of some of the things we deal with behind the scenes as well as give me a platform to attempt to respond. His message is quoted below in it's entirety, and then following it is my response.

Did a little sorting and searching. Apart from car crashes, some sort of lesbian teasing, beer commercials and lots of profanity style comedians, all you have is stuff that makes conservatives look foolish. Kinda juvenile, really. I'll just go back to Youtube, then. Thanks.

My Response:

The power of the sift is that you can join up and try to change things, we have quite a few conservative posters, one of the more vocal being quantumushroom. You can look through his posts and comments http://www.videosift.com/user.php?login=quantumushroom">here.



We also have channels that help sort our content, if you don't like the comedy or politics you can stick to the geek, music, or cute channel which are largely devoid of such things.



Finally I think you have to realize that a lot of what we have is a result of the fact that most videosift users are so called "first adopters" who flock to new services before they catch on in the mainstream. Most of these users tends to be well educated and well liberal. The conservative movement has not made inroads into the tech generation in the same way that the progressive liberal movement has. The top three political sites of this election linking to youtube were all liberal sites like Huffington Post, Dailykos, and Moveon. So while I can understand your frustration at not being well represented it is more a byproduct of the realities of internet use among conservatives than an editorial choice on the part of the admins here at the sift. If you think we should have a wider range of content, please by all means sign up and help "raise the bar." Although to be quite frank, you will probably have to do a fair bit of arguing with our decidedly left leaning user base. At any rate hope to see you around.