I have been thinking of ways to encourage more voting on unsifted vids, to prevent good stuff dying...
also i have been thinking that some stuff SHOULD be on the Sift, but because it's not lolcat it doesn't get a lot of votes, therefore dies in the queue just because it's a minority interest, or it's too long or whatever.

the Sift should be a fine repository of a variety of stuff, but the system at the moment doesn't reward the fringe.

I was thinking, how about all gold 100 stars have double upvote power, to help stuff out of the queue? quite often a video dies after many senior members have upvoted, particularly the serious stuff. This would prevent that. Their double vote could revert to a single vote once the video gets 10 real voters.

in this way, trusted senior members could help add more variety to the Sift, because the Sift is not just a popularity contest, it's a library.

there's a million variations on this idea which i hope we can discuss below, i am just throwing this out there.

please don't say "Sift Money/Dollars" because that's a whole can o' worms.