Gwiz665 already approached this idea recently, but I think it's worth further exploration. Jonny's idea, while interesting, still doesn't sufficiently reduce complexity, IMHO. And the current system (with PQ) sucks, because right now there are thousands of videos rotting in PQs, whose chance of seeing the light of day are slim at best, and if they somehow finally get sifted after languishing in PQ, does that mean they are suddenly quality videos, even though it might have taken them a year or more to get the 10 votes required for publication? There is absolutely no guarantee of that, of course.

So let's just get rid of PQs, mkay? Let's do it like this: Grandfather in all the PQ videos, i.e., let everyone's current PQ remain intact, but allow no more videos to enter PQ. And instead of *begging, let's bring back *requeue, but make it cost a power point, and only allow videos to be requeued ONCE, and that's it. With both power points and *requeue not being unlimited, this should hopefully force members to think carefully about which videos they want to requeue and which videos they let die.

When PQ was new I tried to go through at least one member's PQ on a daily basis, in the hopes of liberating one or two videos every day. But now we have members with PQs well in excess of 50 videos, and many of those have PQs over 100. I can't go through them any more. I don't have the time. I even used to sort PQ videos by highest vote count, but then I felt I was missing rare gems with one or two votes. So basically I rarely visit PQs these days. I'm sorry to admit that, but it's true. I have a feeling that many of you also rarely visit PQs unless it's a member you know fairly well. And yes, that means there are vote cliques. Shocking! Like vote cliques didn't exist before PQ was introduced, right?

I'm not going to post a poll because I want people just to think this suggestion over. Maybe when VideoSift 4.0 is rolled out a new queue system will be introduced that will significantly depart from the current system. At least I hope so. No matter what system we go with, there will always be flaws. ALWAYS. So don't think for a moment that you have an idea that will work perfectly. I know my idea isn't perfect. However that is just the nature of the beast. It's called democracy. Democracy doesn't work perfectly. Never has, never will. The 43rd president of the United States is proof of that. Still, I think we can do better, so that's all I'm hoping for, regardless of what queue idea or ideas are adopted.

So think it over, and feel free to knock the shit out of my idea if you think it's bad. I don't care, just as long as we're all focused on finding a better solution.