Voting versus posting: reflection
I'm about to hit 50 posts, and I'm getting excited as I get close to receiving as many votes as I've put out (I've put out 1100 or so). It feels like giving back--to finally get the votes I've given away. So I started looking at other posters with similar ranking, and some of them have almost no votes. That is, they just post; they don't vote on others' posts.
I guess that's a contribution, because they clearly are posting things people like. But it seems odd to me. That is, it seems to me that full participation in the community means voting as well as posting. I guess that implies I assume that the goal is full participation in the community: it is for me. But am I really doing that?
Thinking further, I guess one could be a valuable member of the sifting community either by just voting or just posting videos. And then of course there is posting to sift talk, running a channel, having playlists, blogging, and helping with site mechanics: only some of which I've tried to do yet.
I guess this brings home to me that I still have a ways to go for "full participation in the community."
I guess that's a contribution, because they clearly are posting things people like. But it seems odd to me. That is, it seems to me that full participation in the community means voting as well as posting. I guess that implies I assume that the goal is full participation in the community: it is for me. But am I really doing that?
Thinking further, I guess one could be a valuable member of the sifting community either by just voting or just posting videos. And then of course there is posting to sift talk, running a channel, having playlists, blogging, and helping with site mechanics: only some of which I've tried to do yet.
I guess this brings home to me that I still have a ways to go for "full participation in the community."
16 Comments
choggiehey, you need to join the upvote everything day thingy.....
least yer not the "talk and don't post tasties"....man, them P's bees slackin'!
choggie*quality
siftbotAwarding oxdottir with one star point for this contribution to Sift Talk - declared quality by choggie.
oxdottirThank you thank you! I be gold!
blankfistI wish I could give you a *quality, too. Choggie is right, you should join in on the upvote everything days. I've gotten my votes casted count up to 1002 because of it.
siftbotInvocations (quality) cannot be called by blankfist because blankfist is not privileged - sorry.
arvanaCongratulations for going gold, oxy!
And as far as "full participation in the community" I don't think anyone ever needs to do anything that isn't in their highest joy, so whatever is fun for you, go for it, and whatever isn't, someone else can do.
But I'm sure you'll have fun with your new star powers!
maatcIf you keep going at this pace you might end up on "Wetten Dass...?"!
Congrats!
loorisYou're not a real user if you're not voting.
Voting IS videosift. The, if you also post, you can be part of a community and not "just a user".
If you put comments and do not partecipate in the main activity of voting and posting videos, it's like if a stranger comes to your country, tells you how you should rule it, and leaves.
EklekMy ratio: 602/1485
Votes Received: 602
Votes Cast: 1485
+ I'm also often voting for "old" sifted posts from the archive
blankfistWow, that's a decent spread of votes, Eklek.
twiddlesEveryone does things differently and has different commitments, but I feel that if you have time enough to post a video you should have time enough to cast at least 10 votes as well. If you have time to post a comment, you should have time enough to find two or three videos you enjoy and vote on them. Fortunately there are some people that like to vote. We all should be more like Ant who has cast over 24 thousand votes which works out to be over 38 votes per day! Excuse me while I go vote on something.
qualmQualm:
Member Stats
Rank: 170
Rating: 27 star points
Votes Received: 500
Votes Cast: 1957
Comments Posted: 523 • browse
Sifted Videos: 26
Unsifted Vids: 1
Sift Talk Posts: 1
Dead Pool Fixes: 1
Total Playlists: 3 • browse
Profile Views: 5217
Eklek@blankfirst: yes, a decent spread indeed
Wow qualm, nice vote received/cast ratio! I'm workin'on mine to improve it
KrupoDo as you feel like, and once in a while the Sift will amuse you.
Like right now I see my "last viewed" vids.
It's funny to see "Yahtzee yellow" across the screen:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Zero-Punctuation-Parody-Some-Punctuation-Art-of-Theft
http://www.videosift.com/video/Fable-The-Lost-Chapters-Fullyramblomatic-review
http://www.videosift.com/video/Animated-Review-of-Fable-The-Lost-Chapters
So anyway, do what you feel like and have fun.
winkler1>> We all should be more like Ant
If everyone voted like ant everything would have negative vote count!
Dupe detection is another way to contribute. Banning spammers is another is probably the most fun
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