So i was thinking about my biggest problem on VideoSift... the fact that i live in an offpeak timezone.

I submitted a video one day and it got 2 votes. Fedquip saved it at peak time and it's currently at 22 votes.

This is at least a little bit of evidence for my hunch that there is a BIG BIG BIG difference in results depending on when you post. the "five vote doldrums" are a problem once you are off the first page of the queue.

another related problem is that if your 10th vote comes in the offpeak time, you don't get much benefit from being on the front page. that is basically too much about luck as opposed to skill.

Let's go back to first principles... videosift allows you to submit anything, but keeps crap out off the main network by having a vote threshold. That's good. I don't mind being disappointed sometimes with a quirky video. But if I post something that I know for a fact is similar to a 100 voter, explaining an important hot topic for example, and it gets 5 votes at 5am in america, i feel that the Sift is being deprived of good content, and only one of my vids has been saved so clearly the save invocation is only small compensation for this effect.

What's my solution? Well I dunno exactly how it would work out, but I was thinking: It is fairer if your post is on the front page of the queue until a certain number of sifters view the front page, then it is put on the second page.

In this way, every new sift would be visible to the same number of users before entering the doldrums, regardless of when it was posted.

The front page of the queue would be longer at slow times, and shorter at busy times.

Makes sense?