I do like adding custom thumbnails to my own posts in order to make them look more appealing on the queue, or hiding the punchline of a comedy visual gag if that becomes the automatically generated thumb. I also occasionally fix up missing thumbs from other people's videos. Two things have become apparent:



1. I would like to be able to set a custom thumbnail when I submit a video. Rather than having to submit the video and then modify it straight after.

2. It would be good if people could edit the thumbnails of other people's videos (even if that video already has a thumb). For say, improving the thumb visually, hiding visual gags or in some cases, fixing videos which think they have thumbs but actually have missing images (like this video currently on the front page: http://videosift.com/video/Robyn-Hyperballad-Bj-rk-Cover)

I know 2 is open to abuse a bit, and there could be cases where the video submitter has gone through the effort of setting their own thumbnail, only for someone else to come along and change it... if that's an issue, it could be limited so that people can only edit other people's video's thumbs if the thumb is still the default?

What say? Number 1 is the biggie for me. If that was there, I'd probably give every new video of mine a custom thumb from the start and hopefully make the queues look better overall.