I'm a Pre-Optometry student who enjoys Art, Philosophy and always learning new things. I'm from Colombia;lived there for 15 years, and have been living in South Florida about 5.



Rant:


The Current state of Videosift is disappointing. Many of you may not have noticed the change, or don't see it as that big since I suppose you frequent the site on a regular basis.



I was absent for a year to come back to a completely different thing. "Online Video Quality control" yeah right. This ideal no longer holds. One of the strengths of this site was the fact you could find rare things and fascinating media from popular sites like youtube videos which are loaded with crap but Videosift helped to show that small number of videos that were underrated. Now the average quality of posts here has dropped severely. Who cares about a common music video from a popular mainstream band that anyone can easily Google and watch in pretty much every video site? and yet many of them get voted right away, not because the video is a good work but only because of the popularity of the musical artist.



I also noticed this dull waves of videos every now and then....Do we really need every single little video of a Sweded version of a movie to be posted? really? Do we really need every single video of Zero Punctuation? why is every Scientology video getting so many votes when essentially is a bullshit religion that does not deserve that much attention and every video is essentially the same thing?



May we also drop the door to door/telemarketer language being used in the titles and description? I understand that with such a high number of videos rotating at such a high rate, attention-getters can help but don't overdo it or it ends up looking ridiculous and disappointing. even more worrisome is seeing people vote "just for the title" wow...just wow.



I hope I'm not the only one seeing this going on...