Wicked awesome.

>> ^eric3579:
So, I had to go listen to the Britney Spears version of the song. What a huge piece of shat that was! I mean extra-large sized huge.


Remember, crap-ass performer. Someone else no doubt wrote it, hence the difference - go *livemusic about, um, *love?

Thank god for you

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
Anything worth promoting once is worth *promoteing twice.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'lily allen, its not me its you, fuck you very much' to 'gwb, george bush tribute, lily allen, its not me its you, fuck you very much' - edited by EDD

I'm sorry that posting this vid compelled you to go and be subjected to that eric, I really am

In reply to this comment by eric3579:
So, I had to go listen to the Britney Spears version of the song. What a huge piece of shat that was! I mean extra-large sized huge.

>> ^deputydog:
never thought lily allen would cause my penis to fill with blood



Really? When?

>> ^Krupo:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Lily-Allen-LDN - 2 votes and 52 views.
It was parked on the front page for a while, but that's a pretty poor conversion.
Now trying it with http://www.videosift.com/video/Monty-Python-Romantic-Film - 28 votes, 1004 views.
I'm playing the "what if the thumbnail is like THIS" card, now. Let's see where it takes us.


41 votes, 1362 views.

Okay - conclusion after 2 tries? New promote is SERIOUSLY skewed in favour of videos with ridiculous (i.e. scandalously clad ppl) thumbnails (such as the Python clip above).

We need more info or only the crazy "Notable Thumbnail" type of vids will get much benefit...

http://www.videosift.com/video/Lily-Allen-LDN - 2 votes and 52 views.

It was parked on the front page for a while, but that's a pretty poor conversion.

Now trying it with http://www.videosift.com/video/Monty-Python-Romantic-Film - 28 votes, 1004 views.

I'm playing the "what if the thumbnail is like THIS" card, now. Let's see where it takes us.

Lily's at 17 votes, promoted moments ago. And 1009 views.

I recommend people post the before/after counts for their promotes here for the next few days to see what the actual effect is (or alternatively we could politely ask Lucky to dredge up the stats, but that would probably be a small bitch to code)... coding would probably be the most efficient way to quantify the change - run it for two weeks under this regime, compare to two weeks under old regime, see which system gets more votes. Two weeks reduces the "I'll promote crap" factor as anybody cranky enough to game the system won't be able to break the test too much (hopefully).

Incidentally - I pimped the Lily vid I promoted because I found it cool that the thumbnail shows her on a bike going from left to right. Which, I imagine, will be the order that the thumbnail takes as it "rides" through the five slots.

I do believe some kind of "+" or "maximize vid" option would be helpful, though!

I figured it would be popular with a certain segment of the Sift population. Also, I'm partial to the song.

In reply to this comment by eric3579:
Thanks so much for the promote. Much appreciated.

In reply to this comment by dotdude:
*promote

never thought lily allen would cause my penis to fill with blood

Sounds like a Lily Allen rip-off somehow..

I prefer Lily Allen's version actually, but it's a great song
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XCMrGSbjieE&feature=related
*british

Lily Allen is fantastic, Beardyman is amazing, but I have no clue what was going on with this show. What a mess!

Tags for this video have been changed from 'machinima, sims' to 'machinima, sims, LILY, allen, smile' - edited by therealblankman

Is it me, or does he look like Alfie? (see Lily Allen)