I think this is the beginning of the end for videosift. Soon there will be no more videos on the internet to post. However, I'm sure you're saying 'Well, I bet people put videos on the internet as fast as we put them on videosift'. You may be right, but how many of those videos will be good enough to post?
sorry to be negative, but I feel everybody should have a say in this Comments  who has this post bookmarked choggie
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I don’t believe the end is near, but I do think the newness has worn off. What genres have we not already beaten to death with submissions?
The question is more “OK, what do we do now?”
Anyway, back to hunting and sifting.
We're on the cusp of a video revolution. I don't know where it's going to end, but there is a seminal battle forming coming between the democratic, bottom-up driven method of Internet video distribution and the standard pump it to your living room, you'll-watch-it-and-you'll-like-it-you-little-shit mode of TV distribution.
I seriously believe that so far we've only seen the tip of the iceberg. Of those 100 channels of TV, we'll soon see all of it on the Web, but chopped up in novel ways with only the good bits left in. Add this to the proliferation of camera phones and that's a lot of video.
Here's a prediction. Soon "personal video" will be always on. People will wear a lapel camera and record their whole f*cking life. Handy for when you get in arguments with your wife. You can rewind and find out who really said what.
So, no - I don't think it's the end, quite the opposite.
As I have been repeatedly saying, it's about categories and increasing the signal to noise ratio. If there was a queue for music vids, then quality music vids would make the front page, and people wouldn't mind slogging through the queue. If there was a tv show queue, etc. etc.
At some point this site does not scale, especially with the number of active queue surfers we currently have. Technically if there was 100 more queue surfer than nearly everything would make front page. If there was 100 more new users, then we would be swamped with too many queued videos to even get any of them out of the queue.
All kinds of budding directors, animators, artists, musicians, accident prone, educators are making new material every second. Just need more people using the internet and understand how to share the material they have access too with others.
As a (megalomanical) kid, I always pictured that concept. Didn't advance towards the "wife defense" part, but that's equally clever.
I find the evolution towards categories a very interesting response towards the growth of VS - another piece of the growth-management puzzle, I suppose. I wonder if there'll be another tweak to queue escape levels to go along with that - or has tweaking those values approached its own inherent limits?
Must say one thing, though -> the votes that the top 15 vids get has been a pretty steady constant (entry level 25 to 30, top vote-getter, 40-60+++) for the past couple of months, eh? I wonder what that implies?
The new system of videos with their own domains will help that, as the reservior of videos increases we will have to start to get very specific with the tag subdivisions, I for example would want to see an ability for Gold stars over a 100 to be able to correct and edit the tags of other submissions. Alot of them I find incomplete.
That's all.
joedirt's suggestion about an escape formula also has lots of merit...