>> ^doogle:
Sarzy - I'm thinking you're looking at videos posted on VideoSift having the right of being Sifted, instead of the priviledge of being sifted.

I actually wasn't addressing the current, ten-vote escape system -- which I like for the most part and think works fairly well -- I was addressing MINK's proposal of jacking up the escape threshold and allowing only the most popular videos to get sifted, giving everything else a nice cozy home in the PQ. If the sift were to work that way most videos would never get seen by anyone beyond their queuing time, because PQed videos are pretty much invisible to 99% of the people who come here.

>> ^MINK:
we need to treat queue escape as a BONUS, and stop thinking of pqueue as a graveyard. you get less star points? so what? the idea is to collaborate on a filter, not to show everyone how big your SiftCock is.

The only problem with that is that the PQ is a graveyard -- videos that go there don't get looked at unless they get begged out, or if another member makes it a point to go and check out someone's PQ. In order for your ideas to work the whole layout of the site would have to be changed to give PQed videos some kind of exposure.

>> ^swampgirl:
So the "flag spam" button notifies admins of the offending user's antics. There ought to be more of a public indicator than this.
If you change it to an "abuse" button, then after say 3 or 5 tags something should automatically happen. I suggest the member is automatically pulled and deposited into a SiftTalk by Siftbot. Then everyone could resolve the matter as a community.


I actually disagree with you on the automatic part: Though we are a rather mature for a community, I'd fear anything that is set up automatically like this can and at some point will be abused (even, ironically, and abuse button). Maybe automatically email the admins and they will work on it. A layer of defense it would be.

>> ^deathcow:
I'd like the site to go porn, so I can tell all my local high school buddies, yeah you remember Brian, yeah he's a PORN LORD now dude, I swear.


well...most of the porn sites have embeds now, it wouldn't be that hard to add an "opt in only" XXX channel.

here's my 2nd idea

>> ^gwiz665:
I like the idea that it would take 20 votes to escape the queue, but anything that's remotely obscure or esoteric would be lost. When the only thing you have going is popular vote, then the lowest common denominator is a force to be reckoned with.


Here here! This is exactly what I was thinking on the subject.

>> ^arvana:
Rather than the never-ending need to keep adjusting the queue escape level, how about publishing videos algorithmically?
For example, every half hour, a video can get published, based on whichever vid in the queue has the highest votes. Or perhaps the highest votes per unit time in the queue.
I'm pretty sure that's what most of the bigger social media sites do.

We will not be defeated by machines!!!!

Another Idea would be to make the "Hot" Tab the new front page, exposing popular queued videos to the main audience

>> ^swampgirl:
Oh and HUGE YES on being able to add comments in a drop down w/o having to open a new window. Quicker commenting would be more fun.


I concur.

>> ^dag:
After reading through everything - one thing I'm hearing very clearly is that the queue escape level is too low and not enough filtering is happening.
We don't have to wait on that. We can raise the queue escape level to 20 now. Who's with me?


I'm with you dag!

I misread. I thought he was talking about comment upvoting.

I'm not with you dag!

>> ^dag:
We don't have to wait on that. We can raise the queue escape level to 20 now. Who's with me?


I'd say 15, personally... doubling the required votes seems kinda drastic in one step. Though if that still isn't enough then yeah 20, or even higher...

>> ^darkrowan:
hmm... sidebar... yeah that could use cleaning:

• top 15 (user/comments): who? no, really, who's really looking at it?
  
• latest channel/talk/blog posts: again, whos looking?
  video host list: auto hide upon getting gold since you can get from any host by that point
  
• recently discarded: maybe rewrite to be recently pqueue'd?
  
• current users: another item that was thought to be good once and now, just clutter
  

Hey, just posted a roundtable with "the four horsemen" Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris and Dennett, thought I'd let you know, since You've posted some Dawkins stuff previously..

http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Four-Horsemen-DawkinsDennettHarris-and-Hitchens

The Future of North American Integration in the Wake of the Terrorist Attacks

http://www.cfr.org/publication/4280/future_of_north_american_integration_in_the_wake_of_the_terrorist_attacks.html

The Atlanta Roundtable held its second session on October 17, 2001 to discuss the future of North American integration in the wake of the terrorist attacks. Gordon D. Giffin, Vice Chairman of Long, Aldridge & Norman and former U.S. Ambassador to Canada, and Robert A. Pastor, Professor of Political Science at Emory University, led the discussion.

The Atlanta Roundtable addressed the following questions:

What were the prospects of North American integration prior to September 11? What are they now?

What has been U.S. policy toward Canada and Mexico vis á vis trade? How has it changed since September 11? How should it change?

How will security concerns on the Canadian and Mexican borders affect trade policy going forward?

How has the United States’ response to the terrorist attacks (i.e. enforcing a security perimeter with Canada) affected our broader relations?

What are the costs and trade-offs of future U.S. actions to deal with the terrorist threat on our borders?

What can or should Canada and Mexico be doing to support the “war” on terrorism?

I think she's brilliant, witty, and beautiful.

She's funny and truthful, the antithesis of Ann Coulter, and most rightwing skanks.

I don’t know what link the picture above goes to for the rest of you, but mine goes to a roundtable discussion with a well-spoken woman participant who is making relevant and salient points regarding Blackwater (mercenaries), Bush (war criminal), Powell (knew he was lying), and the Iraq war.