Reminder: Personal Video Recommendations

If you've cast any votes on videos lately, VideoSift's Recommended videos page will be populated with a personalized list of videos siftbot thinks you might enjoy watching based on your recent history of up-voted videos. I was realizing there are so many new members nowadays that I just wanted to remind you about this feature, which is available under the "Front" tab for all logged in members.

Make sure you stop by there once in a while; you'll often find plenty of gems that you'd otherwise miss.

Also be sure to take a look at Beggar's Canyon from time to time. Members who send their videos there are literally *begging* for your attention, so throw them a bone! (Or a vote where applicable.)
lucky760 says...

I'm glad I posted this, as I had no idea some users were experiencing issues with this feature. Siftbot is in the process of doling out recommendations to every member, so if you are one of the unlucky few without any, you'll have them before too long. (It will take a few hours days.)

I'll update again once Siftbot is finished so you'll be certain when you are supposed to be seeing some recommendations. Thanks for the feedback!

lucky760 says...

@TheGenk: Sorry if I'm a bit slow, but I don't follow. What video bubble?

@djsunkid @dingens @critical_d: It "should" be fixed now and you should be seeing recommendations provided you have cast about a dozen votes in about the past day. Have you cast lots of votes very recently? If you've cast a bunch of votes today and still don't see any recommendations tomorrow, please report back here. Thanks!

campionidelmondo says...

I didn't have any recommendations for a while, but do now. However, I've already watched almost all of the ones on the first page, so I don't know why they're being recommended to me in the first place.

Edit: Oh and the 2200 pages of recommended videos include killed, discarded and deadpool videos for some reason.

xxovercastxx says...

My problem with the recommendations is that they're all videos I've already seen and just haven't voted for.

I realize you probably don't have the capability right now to track which videos we have and haven't played, but that's what's really necessary for this to work as intended.

lucky760 says...

Thanks for the follow-ups everyone. The issue turned out to be that in some cases there isn't available what's considered "enough" quality data to suggest meaningful videos. I've modified it so you most of the time you'll be suggested *something* (assuming you've voted on several videos in the past day or so).

However, you still might not get any if there isn't enough statistical data to make decent recommendations. In short, the more you vote, the more we'll be able to pick videos for you.

@xxovercastxx: That's a great point. As you're probably aware, you can "unrecommend" videos in your Recommended videos listing. I've made it so if you *ever* unrecommend a video, it will never be recommended again. You'll still have to do the unrecommend (it won't happen automatically by just viewing a post), but hopefully this change will help.

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