From my experience I find most of my videos *don't* get published the first day. I have to help and nurture them along, they are like those little chicks trying to climb up steps...

I try to be a bit random sometimes when voting so I'm not always just looking at the first queued page.

I never even look at the top 15 box. Most of the sifts I like never make it there anyway.

If the speedy recognition of a video was the only concern, we would not have the "save" invocation.

What about raising the number of votes for a vid to get out of the queue? I miss too much if I'm gone for 3 days. I mean I'm on here everyday but not everyone has as much time on their hands as I do.

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We tried to raise the queue escape level to 12
http://www.videosift.com/talk/12-Votes-to-Publish

There was rioting in the streets of Siftsville. We turned it back to 10 - perhaps we should give it a re-look.

Looris is right. Too few sifters dig very deep into the Queue, and there is a black hole there for vids that don't escape within the first day. If a video doesn't have enough votes to make the "expiring soon" list, it's as good as spaghettified.

escape level should remain at 10

and escape time should remain at 4 days - am especially adamant on this one- a lot of really good stuff only makes it on the last day- the top 15 expiring list has helped a lot with that I believe... and, there are some of us, who actually prefer to sift the queue backwards... habitually I set the queue to display, 'most votes first' or 'oldest first', so I can help things I possibly missed the first time around... maybe if more sifters did that... just a suggestion

I like your sujestion raven. I never thought to reverse the queue. But the top 15 has been the best promoter for near miss vids.

perhaps an option to see a larger part of the queue? 20, or 30 videos?
don't know how that would look like though...

for all yer last minute expirations, I usually work the queue backward through the, 'bout to expires, and then backward to the last time I was online....or just hit random..

hope the queue list at the right will be more dynamic as well, next iteration-

I'm with bluecliff and while I have my prefs set to view 30 vids as my default per page I still think thumbnailing videos(as I have stated this several times)is the way to go. You could fit 50+ per page then envoke a neato lightbox effect when you press play. This would help get more queue videos some face time.

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Have a look at VideoSift.pl grspec. They are doing the thumbnail lightbox trick. We may go this way for videosift.com, but it's kind of nice to not have a middle step between viewing a video too.

Dag this is the functionality i was thinking about http://www.gobekdeligi.com/videobox/

also there is the one extra step to make it play but perhaps it can be coded to auto start the video after the first click. I would think if you could also get comments to load too, you then solve two problems. When your watching a video and want to comment you have to click the link to get to the comments which starts the video over. If you could load the video and the comments into the above you could then watch your video and comment without ever having to lose your place in the video.

Ooohhhh... I like what the Polish are rocking over there! No need to go to a different page for comments! NICE!! And the thumbnail's are cool, too.

and from what ender says, a conformation button for downvotes! whats up with the overseas luvin dag??