Wow, amazing. Can't believe this almost didn't make it through the Sift. Well I can actually, seeing what happened to some of my videos
I think it will make it now it's in Top 25 Videos Expiring Soon.

Quality would be much improved with a nice soundtrack though.

I'm here for you, friend. You too can be rid of this horrible affliction. My secret to kicking WoW: join a USA Top 25 raiding guild and speed clear new content, playing pretty much every night of the week almost, until you want to puke and then find out the next batch of content won't be coming for over 6 months! /wrist No wonder Nihilum went to shit, they had BT/Hyjal cleared over 2 months before we did. Oh, and then sell your account for $2,500 KA-CHING. Best thing I ever did.

Actually, I lie, I was so addicted I even leveled a Paladin to 70 on a backwater crappy server before I finally said "enough of this insanity". There's a million things more worthwhile to do with your time than WoW!

In reply to this comment by gwiz665:
I'm elbow-deep in both WoW and Videosift now.. If only I had made the connection between levels and star points, I would have had a lot more money and time to spare.

In reply to this comment by uhohzombies:
I found VS through Blues News. I had just quit World of Warcraft after about 3 years of playing (best decision I ever made) and I needed a new internet obsession to fill up my spare time. Seriously, star points are like leveling up in an MMORPG. Then I started to get to know the people and I knew I had found a great online community worth being a part of.

Man, this is top 25 video's easily. If you cut out all the T.V. Crap that you have to put up with all the time......great video!

Dude, shouldn't this be the top 25? Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPP5jx-kx0Y ... Please fix it.

So this is (probably) what it takes to be a top 25 video of all time...

Hey this cat deserves some love-wonder is a middle name.......
http://www.videosift.com/video/NASA-THEMIS-Launch-CGI
http://www.videosift.com/video/Plasma-Light-Bulb


and he loves Japanese, so he can't be all bad...
http://www.videosift.com/video/MXC-Top-25-Most-Painful-Eliminations

not a big deal, but here's two reasons why the top 15 list should be put back to 7 days:

#1:
having the top 15 list last the same 4 days as the queue means that videos that escape the queue on the 3rd or 4th day and suddenly get a bunch of votes on the front page have no chance of making the top 15 list for more than a couple of hours.

example: How to build a bass with balloons

published 4 days 22 hours 19 minutes ago, has 25 votes. it would be #12 on the top 15 right now under the old system. but it took a couple days to escape the queue, so it never made the list, or at least not except very briefly. it's a great find, but we missed it in the queue and would have missed it entirely except that we spent half the morning watching videos today.

#2:
there seem to be a lot of casual visitors who only check the site once a week or so. a 7-day top 15 list makes it less likely they'll miss a really popular video.

example: Effects Of Drugs And Alcohol On Spider Webs

published 4 days 5 hours 31 minutes ago, has 79 votes and is the top 100 ever on the site already. went to #1 right away and would likely have stayed there all week under the old system. but if someone only comes to videosift this weekend or early next week, it's already nearly impossible to find:
-it's not in the top 15 (too old)
-it's already on the *19th* page from the front
-it's not on the default page for "top videos" (because that got changed to 24 hours)

making the top 15 list is pretty much a second level of graduation for videos here
( queue --> front page --> top 15 )
and almost always guarantees piles of votes from unstarred members (mostly casual lurkers, probably).

if you want to have more flow through the list, don't shorten the time period, lengthen the list. make it a top 20, or top 25.

Another pitchfork top 25.
The band's name, CSS, stands for "Cansei de Ser Sexy," Brazilian for "Tired of being Sexy," a phrase they got from a Beyonce quote.

Another Pitchfork top 25 of 2k6.

One of Pitchfork's Top 25 videos of 2006.

That is a watered down version of Project Censored top 25.

http://www.projectcensored.org/censored_2007/index.htm

Enjoy reading it while you still can get Time Warner to publish 'second tier' webpages. (ie. Net Neutrality)