I just had a revolutionary idea!

What if we got rid of the voting system on Videosift, and replaced it with an average sharecount from the social networks to measure popularity?
Or an average of Likes, +1s, Tweets and whatnots?

Pros:
- Content on VS would spread more outside
- More non VS users would get to see clips

Cons:
- People not active in social networks could not participate
-Multiple shares by a single user would be possible (-> more than one vote: BAD!)
(but maybe your vote total on a clip could never be more than 1. So if you share it once it counts as one vote, and if you share it to two networks, your net votecount would stay at one by dividing your vote by two)

Obviously I haven´t thought this all the way through.
I am counting on you guys to tell me why this idea is probably silly.
Also it would probably be a shitload of work programmingwise.

Should be an interesting discussion.

Ready? Box!