*Quality, with a capitol K. Dangerous thinking here, but I like it.

Awarding schmawy with one star point for this contribution to Sift Talk - declared quality by arsenault185.

Oh, boy, not the sifty again? How many times do we need a 'why currency would f*&^ up the sift.' chat again?

Gorgon- can you send us over to the previous discussions? I've read through as much of sifttalk and I could for now. If this is a redundant conversation I will * discard.

Well if I wasn't lazy I'd go find em all, but I am lazy so lets just suffice it to say that from my observations that using star points (or sift dollars or siftys), as an exchange medium has been shot down by a majority of the community. I don't think you need to discard your post but I'll sum up how this goes when it's brought up:

Dag:
"How does everyone feel about sift dollars!?"
Mink:
"No! Changes are terrible, I live in Lithuania."
MarineGunnrock:
"Let's ban him for suggesting it!"
Swampgirl:
"I think it might be fun, we should try it."
Gorgonheap:
"Currency would change the focus from sifting videos to hording cash. blah, blah, blah, (something insightful and intelligent.)... And that's why Hillary Clinton is just like Adolf Hitler."
Choggie:
"Blimey Mate, the pip two is full blown horse sheit. No dun-bar forest will whack me own mum ketchup fish."
Lucky:
"Why don't we try it for a while?"
25 following members:
"NO!"
Siftbot:
"Awarding dag with one star point for this contribution to Sift Talk - declared quality by siftbot. And one day you will all bow before me!"

Yeah now you say sift dollars I think I remember. I'm not saying that you could do anything other than *transferstar to another member. I'd like a big way to say thanks, that's all.

E: I could give you one for ^your little vignette of this place, for example. Ha.

^That's what comment voting is for, in my opinion.

Choggies "comment" cracked me up, but this is nothing like a currency. Nothing at all.

I guess you could think of it as a * quality that you can use on video sumbissions and comments or just drop it on a member's profile to show the love, and reinforce what you like about the Sift, the difference being it comes out of YOUR pocket.

Hmmm, I could see turning a power point into a star for another person, but I'm wary of transferring a star point.

I'm not saying you'd have to. But the central idea is that it comes from you . You never need to invoke it. But that Sifter with 9 stars and contributions you love but just can't get over the hump, well you could hit them with a bump. Or that comment that you think is the most essential truth, that thing that HAD to be said, and wish you'd thought of? Star.

>> ^gorgonheap:
Hmmm, I could see turning a power point into a star for another person, but I'm wary of transferring a star point.

What about trading star points for sexual favors?

DFT makes it to Bronze in a week.

i'll give you a star for a dirty verb

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

I'm all for it.

Really???

>> ^dag:
I'm all for it.


>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
What about trading star points for sexual favors?

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
What about trading star points for sexual favors?


I think DFT would be so far in to star negatives that that we would have to ban him. At his current rate up star-awarded comments, (of which I'm sure hes made at least 30 since the start of 15 upvotes thing) he would have to make that a day just to get his fix.

That'd be cool! Maybe it could be something to try out?

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
What about trading star points for sexual favors?


>> ^schmawy:
DFT makes it to Bronze in a week.


I make it to silver diamond in a week.

Not sure what my thoughts are on this. I like * Quality, in that its a way of recognising an apreciated ST contribution (just as sifting a vid gets a star "for" something, as does 15coment vote stars). Recognition for something/apreciation fo, is inhernt in the sift. kind of what the voting is. but "transfer" and "award" arnt the same thing. haveing the structure behind such, as we do now, provides a framework and coherence. transferable, would allow someone to chose what they valued/apreciated without need for said framework.

DUno how i feel about it though. curiouse, i supose. would like to read over the old threads on this.

As far as I can recall, there are no old threads on this. The threads mentioned are about a currency - again, this is nothing like a currency.

can we make it so that I can jack you of your stars while you're sleeping? If not I'll continue to just watch you while you sleep.

Don't really like this proposal. Takes a bit of the site's focus off videos and makes it more about cultivating favor with other sifters. And there is potential for abuse, although I don't think it's likely.

Say that one sifter transfers a star point to another, giving the latter sifter a gold star. The new goldie gives his/her benefactor a * quality.

Don't foresee this happening soon, but I believe that we call the website VideoSift and not StarSift for a reason.

ok, thanks everybody. *discard

Discarding this post - discard requested by original submitter schmawy.

A shame the post got discarded, though, it's good to have them on the record as an idea discussed.

Plus the sexual favours jokes were funny if not baffling.

*promote

Only published, queued, or discarded videos, published Sift Talk posts, and published blog posts may be promoted - ignoring promote request by schmawy.

Boo.

my balls have been outside of my pants for over a year, just waiting for someone to polish them with stars.

You know...FYI.