"I am here to ride bike!"

^ my own pointless comment.

Dag, and others, seem to have missed the reason for raising the votes required to get sifted.... The point is: there are too many videos getting sifted to the front page!

I agree with MINK (again) about people's unrealistic attitude towards esoteric videos..

Think on this next point very carefully:

Escape votes = 10. (or votes to views if you are 'delirious':)

Two videos are posted to unsifted, one is 'popular type' (evil!) and the other is 'esoteric' (saintly)...

Which one gets sifted first?

ok. .after pretending that anything could happen, admit that it will be the 'popular' video that gets sifted first...

Now consider the fact that when a video gets sifted it immediately aquires a much wider audience.. casual sifters/ people short on time .. people that like to vote for 'popular' videos!

Then?

Whilst the popular video has made it to the top 15 and gained an even wider audience... what has happened to the 'esoteric' vid?......

Has it been pushed so far down the unsifted page by videos posted by people with free queue slots that it is never seen again?.... great! Your plan to improve the quality of the sift is.. er..

Anyways,
you need to raise the escape votes required in order to slow down the turnaround of vids and encourage users (that aren't pure vote whores) to bring quality sifts here...

Currently, far too many videos get published. Even if your amazing esoteric video makes it, how long will it stay on the front page? Better start forcing everyone to check the site every hour incase they miss something....

[Considering the time requirements to view every video, why not repackage the site as a web-based MMORPG where you level by gaining (or buying) star points!]

@ Sarzy: If the PQ is a graveyard, what about the thousands of videos that are already posted? I guess we might as well delete them all and start again? hmn...

[and edited to change what was in bold.. it was making my eyes bleed]

Yes.. she is incredibly sexy.

It's good that she avoided the blonde bimbo look,but it's a shame she still felt the need to enlarge her breasts (or those are the firmest, most widely spaced natural breasts of that size I have ever seen)

weird. Her face looks like it belongs to some kind of crone..

I guess she smears herself with vaseline every night, then squeezes into her insanity bubble.

I wish I could use the power of vaseline to downvote this.

..and in the basement there are 100 caged children that she uses to remove the cat smell (attach a pole and then swish them around the floor like a mop...it works wonders.)

It almost seems cruel to adopt a cat from this place.

All MINK's points about the quality of sifted videos dropping (a lot) is completely true. (I'm sure other people have also said the same kind of thing).

These days you need to browse through 50 videos just to find a few you want to watch.. you may as well go straight to YouTube and browse around there for things you are interested in [or type random words into the search engine and maybe find something unusual]

There's barely anything in the top 15 that I like, and the number of published videos is insane... the sifting net appears to have a large hole in the bottom!

God help you if you leave it a whole week before checking the site.

Anyways, raising the number of votes required before something sifts = good thing. if you want to check out all the videos that have been posted, then you can visit the unpublished page! Maybe then you are also more likely to catch the interesting videos that haven't been making it...

It might also have the advantage that turnaround of a person's queued vids will slow down.... meaning 'major submitters of videos' will have more time to browse the Sift or look for the real quality videos elsewhere.


In terms of comment voting, I like the idea of being able to see who liked/ disliked your comment.. it's nice. (comment voting is broken on youtube but it seems to be ok here for now)

However, I dislike the fact that you can get star points from comments (especially when people keep getting star points just for typing something like "Congrats!" into one of the 'hey, such and such is a gold member now!' threads. The warm fuzzy feeling/ getting your comment featured should be enough for you.


I'd like the ability to fix embed code even though I am a lowly member..

The 'cloud tag' and 'Current Users' could go.

I feel the urge to punch him in the face. (I think it's how he delivers his message using such annoying paralinguistics..)

If I fry bacon I use a high heat and a (very) short cooking time and it comes out looking nothing like this guy's "the wrong way". Burnt and soggy? If you have any cooking ability then this will not be the case... the real trick is making the pan hot enough.. mmn.. crispy bacon fat.

Perhaps the only 'wrong way' is when people use a medium heat, or they don't wait for the pan to get hot enough before throwing the bacon in.

Of course, a grill is often the way forwards..

At about 1:22 in it was just crying out for him to layer another guitar part over the top (playing the same progression but offset by a bar).. ah well.

what are people upvoting? her ability to be blonde and walk down a catwalk?

Is my sound not working, and I missed some astounding commentary or funky slap bass?

If I was going to be an ass and critique her 'beauty', I'd say the following:

1) Face too masculine (I prefer girls to be cute/pretty rather than look like a drag queen.. thanks all the same)

(face being the most important part, she has already failed to impress a guy who is nothing special himself.. i.e. me)

2) People can be as fat or thin as they like.. she happens to be too thin for my tastes.

3) I honestly prefer smaller breasts... but a woman really should have some hips, thighs and buttocks to feast your eyes on!

Each to their own, I guess...


[and yes.. I am an ass]

The action on this acoustic is ludicrously low - I call 'shredfest'..

The fingerpicking is fairly impressive though, I guess.


[I wonder if people would vote for someone playing the same thing on an electric guitar...] hmnn

Taking everything previously said into account:

I think the main problem this guy has is trying to lift weights whilst having an erection.

At least this current implementation is opt-in, rather than 'opt-out', so nothing is forced on you. I won't be using it, but I can see it's useful to stop personal profile/message abuse...

If there was a group of people on this site who are mainly concerned with voting for every video a member of their 'gang' posts, whilst only reading posts from other members of said group... this function should be useful for them to avoid any criticism creeping into their self-congratulatory 'pet-fests' (yes, I just made that phrase up - I think).

If such a group of people did exist, then they are probably immune to logical and valid discussion.. this new ignore function could be a big time saver for everyone.

LALALALALALALALA!

I have one question...

Where are her hips?

ooh. that could have been handy!

I've flailed around and posted the first 3 parts already though. I did eventually work out how to tidy the links up though. hehe.

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Hey Debacle, this could help you out with multi segments like your Dimitri post. A handy guide published by member Constitutional Patriot...

http://www.videosift.com/talk/How-to-create-a-Custom-Player-in-YouTube

Part 1 and links to the rest are here