Issykitty and I are going out to dinner, so I may not respond for a bit. All input is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

PS, Issykitty is having a hard time coming up with a channel too, so feel free to offer up some suggestions for her as well.

There needs to be a channel to showcase "Douchebaggery" for Bill O'Reilly or Officer Rivieri type videos. It would probably have a lot of content.

well, anyone who knows me at all, knows i'm a big fan of all 3 of those.

and of the channel ideas that i've seen batted around, those are among the least-overlapping with existing channels.

I support all three you propose.

In labeling some recent vids, I had to leave some channels out. Do you think we're going to need to go up to six for a channel maximum? I'm only putting the idea out there.

>> ^Fjnbk:
There needs to be a channel to showcase "Douchebaggery" for Bill O'Reilly or Officer Rivieri type videos. It would probably have a lot of content.

the gtfoop channel? (get the fuck off our planet)

>> ^dotdude:
In labeling some recent vids, I had to leave some channels out. Do you think we're going to need to go up to six for a channel maximum?

i was wondering that same thing, dude, while writing the above comments.

Sounds like some *quality ideas to me.

Awarding dystopianfuturetoday with one star point for this contribution to Sift Talk - declared quality by Sarzy.

>> ^Fjnbk:
There needs to be a channel to showcase "Douchebaggery" for Bill O'Reilly or Officer Rivieri type videos. It would probably have a lot of content.


I think Lies/Eia cover it mostly, no?

^ lies, perhaps. in the case of o'reilly, yes. but rivieri, no, f'rinstance.
this would be more like a rogue's gallery, i guess. humanity at its worst.

and eia, only if they're doing it to themselves.

I already told you my thoughts on them earlier, but I will add this:

You suck.

like the channel ideas...

I wonder though why I haven't got approval for my nonsense channel- videos that don't make sense but is fun to watch...

YES YES YES, there have been numerous times I've wanted to post vids into those channels (and more, but i know we don't want 3 billion channels..)

RE: self-linking.. i was going to say the blogs are a way around that, with users plugging their material and then others can sift it up, as has been done a little in the past -- but of course not everyone has blogs.. i don't feel it sits right with siftology to self-link though, even if it is brilliant content generated within the community, i still think it needs to be sifted by someone else. is there a way we could have an area for people to recommend their own content that they'd like others to sift? alternatively, perhaps a self-link from a trusted user garners no star point? i don't know, this is murky... worth discussing though, because as we've seen, some of the people here have stuff a lot of us would appreciate seeing.

A potential channel idea (won't be offended if people think it's useless):

*talent - people showcasing skill.. instruments/sport/juggling/singing/dancing/whatever, those clips that make you go WOW! (i often think of the bravo channel but its description doesn't match.)

Berticus, someone started this "Sifters Anonymous" group:

http://www.youtube.com/group/videosift

G, the dark and trippy channel-ideas fall into my Dreamtrip 2.0 playlist
http://www.videosift.com/playlists/Eklek/Dreamtrip-20
An indie film channel could complement the cinema channel, but indie film is also cinema I think.

(last edit on July 4 2008)
These channels I think are missing on Videosift:
-*homme (to complement femme/sexuality/gay)
-"animals behaving like humans" (and vice versa;) ) channel
-usa, japan(orama), france, spain, italy, germany, russia, china, india, mexico etc. (to complement british/canada)
-*africa, europe, *latin (to complement asia, downunder)
-aquatic
-90s, 00s (to complement vintage/80s/future)
-celebrity/gossip/tabloid/sensational (to complement lies)
-*lectures/presentations/talks
-*energy, agriculture, *health, *education, law
-*dance, fashion, theatre, comics, architecture, design (to complement art/cinema/(live)music/shortfilms/obscure)
-*electronic(a) (for electronic music, to complement rocknroll/wildwestshow/jazzblues/bravo)
-crime, romance (to complement mystery/comedy/horror/wildwestshow/grindhouse)
-mash-up, fan videos (to complement meme)
-*melancholy/drama (to supplement happy/dark/fear)
-pranks (to complement standup/parody)

*=the ones I think are most needed

>> ^kronosposeidon:
I already told you my thoughts on them earlier, but I will add this:
You suck.


At least I'm not dead.

Those are great channels. I also dig the idea of adding your video to more than just 5 channels as a maximum. I don't get that. If it fits, then it should go into as many channels as would make sense. I've had videos on here that could fit into ten channels. I've also had videos that didn't really seem to fit in any of the channels.

Eklek touched on this already, but I think there should be channels for each major world region. We already have Asia, so we should add:

North America
South America
Africa
Europe
Oceana (Australia, NZ, & Pacific Islands)

Along with this I think we need a 6th channel, just like dotdude suggested.

Your channel suggestions are all cool. I don't see how you can wrong with any one of them. I think I lean toward the Dark channel, as I'm a bit dark myself.

I think a United States / North America channel would probably be a bad idea, simply because it would apply to about 95% of the videos on here and would get completely bogged down.

Thanks for the input everyone. I'm kinda feeling like the Dark Channel is the one I should do.

Would it be that much different from the obscure channel?

^yes, the distinction between "dark" and "obscure" should be made clear
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/obscure
Now I interpret "obscure" as +- non-mainstream, with a focus on music video, but in practice obscure is used broader, including a lot of "dark" as well - but not always..so something for Farhad/DFT to discuss I think?