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Most * bans
People's Choice!
... an award just for me

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Thanks go again to Ren for our Sifter Trophy.

Best SiftTalk Topic
Best Channel

Most Athletic
Best Dressed
Most likely to succeeded
Most opaque
Funniest hat

Most Handsome in Real Life
Best Smile
Best Legs
Best Newbie

I'm serious about the first and last ones.

Most likely to overcome top sifter in 2008
Most Popular Sifter
Most Unpopular Sifter
Best Mixed Drink Recipe
Sifter with most Ant downvotes
Sifter with most Siftbot rejections
Most Educational Sift
Most Controversial Sift
Sift most influenced in Popularity by being Sifted (STOP ME)

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^lol at most ant downvotes and most siftbot rejections

best vote per video ratio (for bronze and above)
most upvote per comment made

Definitely into the low end categories as well.

Biggest thorn in choggie's flesh

best statistic

best "Mummys boy" comment.

weirdest video submitted in 2007.
most controversial video
best new channel
best *ban rejection letter received

dag cannot be banned because star accounts are immune to banination - ignoring ban request by joedirt.

I'm against the "most votes given" category, because anyone could go through the entire Sift catalog and vote like a madman (or madwoman). Don't think that someone wouldn't do that either. I'm also against highest or lowest comment up vote and down vote categories, because comment voting is done anonymously and I think a lot of people would like it to remain that way.

The other categories that you mentioned are good, dag. I also like Joedirt's:

- Weirdest Video
- Most controversial video (also mentioned by Swampgirl)

Swampgirl has a good one:

- Most educational

Dotdude is onto something with:

- Best Sift Talk post

Here are a few more ideas:

- Best video (kind of like 'Best Movie', i.e., not based on votes but quality)
- Funniest video
- Highest rated comment (most votes)
- Best comment (quality)
- Best commenter
- Funniest commenter
- Most eclectic sifter (one who's posted the greatest variety of videos)

I realize that some of these may be hard to do, but I throw them out there any way for the plebiscite to approve or reject.

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A lot of these suggestions are subjective- and would require us to set up a panel or separate voting system- sadly we have not done that. We may have to stick to things we can measure objectively.

Or I suppose we could have a thread for the subjective ones- and people could nominate and vote via comments.

most down voted video.

So what we're really talking about are awards based on statistics that VS already has kept track of in 2007.

because comment voting is done anonymously

Hover your mouse pointer over the comment vote arrows to see who cast up and down votes KP.

It's all very good having award ceremonies. But what are the prizes?

Well how about this, just to keep democracy alive and well:

I wasn't here last year when you all voted for the top hundred videos of 2006, but I have seen *nominate in the comments sections of sifts from that year. So how about we use these invocations in the comments sections of the videos we'd like to nominate, only valid for a pre-determined period of time for the voting period, like say from January 1st through the 8th. Give every member 15 choices per category, and then award stars to the top three in each category. BTW, you could also use the *best video vote to decide the top hundred videos of 2007 too:

*best - Best video of the year (can also be used in the comments section of the best Sift Talk post that you'd like to nominate)
*funniest - Funniest video of the year
*weirdest - Weirdest video of the year
*controversial - Most controversial video of the year
*educational - Most educational video of the year
*music - Best music video of the year

And let the remaining categories be decided by stats. I propose they be:

Most upvoted video
Most viewed video
Most upvoted comment
Most upvoted member, i.e., votes received
Most downvoted member
Most upvoted commenter
Most downvoted commenter
Most comments made
Most profile views
Most saves
Most promotes
Most embed fixes (and not just the ones you got a star for, but ALL of them)
Quickest gold star

A) Do these seem feasible, and
B) Do these seem like good categories, both for stats and for voting?

Moving post to Music Talk - requested by kronosposeidon.

Shit!, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to move this to music talk. My bad. Guess I should have separated the asterisk and the word, dammit. Normally this would be blankfist's MO.

^I guess that means that using "* music" to vote for the best music video would be a bad idea. Maybe *bmusic could be used instead?

Youngest Sifter
Oldest Sifter

Shouldnt this be posted or cross posted in Sift Talk

Best award.

Biggest penis.

karaidl:

I'm guessing for the biggest penis award we'd be going on the honor system. That's cool. Mine's 13". When soft.
If you require photographic evidence then I won't compete. Modesty forbids.

eric3579:

kronos did a blankfist and accidentally moved it to Music talk. Now we're all paying for his sins.

[corrected kronosposeidon's blunder]

Best in each channel would be nice.

ZOMG! Let's not have a million nomination invocations. If you are crazy enough to go down that road, it should be *nominate_best *nominate_funny

But I'm really against that craziness.

I agree with stats based instead of too many yearbook type categories. Most likely to be a successful video. blah blah.

But I do like best furry video.

I do have one suggestion that might get silly, but good idea for future exspansion. If you consider each channel to be a micro-community or would be upon further site growth... Each *nominate could register within one channel. And the top 5 vote getters or top one would get a Sifty for that channel, like Best campaign video comes from election08 video pool. Of course, multiple categories destroys this concept. Too bad we don't have a primary category attribute.

Video with the most votes
Video with the most comments
Video everyone took a look at(vid with the most views)
sifter with Most vote received (unfair to non charter)
sifter with Most vote per video.
sifter most likely to throw in there two cents(total comments).
sifter with the most total comment upvotes

Longest discussion about nothing important.
Best font used for one of the many implementations of the vague VideoSift corporate identity shambles.

and building upon dotdude's comment - as to member related awards, you could just post the top 15 members list and be done with that.

Unless the awards are subjective/votable I don't see much point in member related awards. Although I suppose the top 15 members would like some kind of prize. *shrug*

@ant
Re most down voted video.

You thinking this might win? 9 upvotes and 14 downvotes is pretty impressive

karaidl: What if one doesn't haev a penis?

Ant, they are easy to gets' all I can say......

For most downvoted I think this might be the winner at 28 up and 33 down, at least as far as I can remember. First posted over a year and a half ago and finally died a gruesome and deserved death just over two months ago.

^ very likely, and it just let me find an obscure bug

Yep, still at +28/-33. Best undead video, but I'm pretty sure it is not eligible for 2007 award. It was submitted almost 2 yrs ago. (Has it been that long?)

Time of post/time of death, wasn't sure which we wanted to go with. Though in hindsight I see you kicked the body again so maybe we'd better go with first post. This could go on a while otherwise

atm it's at 28 up and 34 down, picked up another downvote.

We need a category for Best LOLcat video. That should narrow it to about 45 million candidates.

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*unsticky

Unstickying this post from the top of Sift Talk - unsticky requested by dag.

funniest new award on this page?

my nominee: "Most opaque" - eric

@dag: "A lot of these suggestions are subjective- and would require us to set up a panel ..."

found it funny, that your comment wound up next to the suggestion i was about to make, when i read that.

the top 15?