Over the years that Videosift has grown up on the web it's gone from a handful of channels to (correct me if I miss counted) 65 channels. Now if you've frequented this site every waking moment of your life for the past 2+ years you realize that some sifters who were once rabid participants are now long gone.
I think it's time to call out the channel owners to see who is here and who has retired the uniform. Below is a list of current channels (in no order whatsoever), channel owners please weigh in so we know who's here.
*1sttube: Grimm, active
*cooking: djsunkid, active
*happy: Issykitty, active
-music: Open
-sports: michie, MIA
*80s: dag, active
*cult: therealblankman, active
-hiphop: benjee, MIA
-mystery: grspec, MIA
*stand up: winkler1, active
-actionpack: wildmanbill, MIA
-cute: Open
-history: rickegee, MIA
*nature: Arvana, active
*terrible: sometimes, active
*animation: thesnipe, active
*dark: dystopianfututretoday, active
-horror show: pyrex, MIA
*obscure: Farhad2000, active
*travel: silvercord, active
*art: plastiquemonkey, active
*documentaries: Fedquip, active
-howto: maudlin, MIA
*parody: dotdude, active
*videogames: Oatmeal, active
*asia: Lucky760, active
*downunder: maatc, active
-humanitarian: bl968, MIA
-philosophy: bluecliff, MIA
*vintage: swampgirl, active
*books: kronosposeidon, active
-eia: karaidl, MIA
-islam: Gwann, MIA
-politics: Open
-viral: Open
*bravo: Deano, active
*election 08: joedirt, active
*jazz: choggie, active
-religion: LadyBug, MIA
-war on terror: raven, MIA
*british: Zifnab, active
*engineering: oxdottir, active
*kids: James Roe, active
-rocknroll: MLX, ?
-wild west show: Open
*canada: Calvados, active
*fear: blankfist, active
*latenight: eric3579, active
*science: rembar, active
*woo hoo: Krupo, active
*catsanddogs: youdiejoe, active
-femme: intangiblemeg, MIA
*lies: Fjnbk, active
*sci-fi: Firefly, active
*world affairs: histnerd, active
-cinema: pigeon, ?
-gay: Open
*livemusic: deathcow, active
*sexuality: persephone, active
-wtf: Spiff, ?
-comedy: Open
*geek: gorgonheap, active
*meme: MarineGunrock, active
*shortfilms: Sarzy, active
-commercial: Looris, MIA
*grindhouse: dw117, active
-military: darksun, MIA
*spacey: lunkwill, active
I think it's time to call out the channel owners to see who is here and who has retired the uniform. Below is a list of current channels (in no order whatsoever), channel owners please weigh in so we know who's here.
*1sttube: Grimm, active
*cooking: djsunkid, active
*happy: Issykitty, active
-music: Open
-sports: michie, MIA
*80s: dag, active
*cult: therealblankman, active
-hiphop: benjee, MIA
-mystery: grspec, MIA
*stand up: winkler1, active
-actionpack: wildmanbill, MIA
-cute: Open
-history: rickegee, MIA
*nature: Arvana, active
*terrible: sometimes, active
*animation: thesnipe, active
*dark: dystopianfututretoday, active
-horror show: pyrex, MIA
*obscure: Farhad2000, active
*travel: silvercord, active
*art: plastiquemonkey, active
*documentaries: Fedquip, active
-howto: maudlin, MIA
*parody: dotdude, active
*videogames: Oatmeal, active
*asia: Lucky760, active
*downunder: maatc, active
-humanitarian: bl968, MIA
-philosophy: bluecliff, MIA
*vintage: swampgirl, active
*books: kronosposeidon, active
-eia: karaidl, MIA
-islam: Gwann, MIA
-politics: Open
-viral: Open
*bravo: Deano, active
*election 08: joedirt, active
*jazz: choggie, active
-religion: LadyBug, MIA
-war on terror: raven, MIA
*british: Zifnab, active
*engineering: oxdottir, active
*kids: James Roe, active
-rocknroll: MLX, ?
-wild west show: Open
*canada: Calvados, active
*fear: blankfist, active
*latenight: eric3579, active
*science: rembar, active
*woo hoo: Krupo, active
*catsanddogs: youdiejoe, active
-femme: intangiblemeg, MIA
*lies: Fjnbk, active
*sci-fi: Firefly, active
*world affairs: histnerd, active
-cinema: pigeon, ?
-gay: Open
*livemusic: deathcow, active
*sexuality: persephone, active
-wtf: Spiff, ?
-comedy: Open
*geek: gorgonheap, active
*meme: MarineGunrock, active
*shortfilms: Sarzy, active
-commercial: Looris, MIA
*grindhouse: dw117, active
-military: darksun, MIA
*spacey: lunkwill, active
Books here. There better be some finger sandwiches for showing up this time.
You can take that grossly misjudged sense of entitlement and shove it up your privileged... I mean, no we don't have finger sandwiches. But here's a pat on the back.
Nature channel is here. I'm not really sure if this roll call is going to be useful though unless there is admin buy-in on cleaning up the unattended channels...
Fact: if you question me again I will severely punish you.
Actually I'm doing this more in hopes that an admin will reassign channels that have been abandon. we may not all be as vigilant as rembar with his science channel but I think that each channel needs someone to actively watch over it.
If I marked any of you "AWOL" and I'm wrong, now is the time to open your piehole. Same goes for those I marked "?"
*They probably also don't like you. Around the water cooler I hear some of them call you "gorgoncreep". Better you hear this from me than through the grapevine.
-1sttube: Grimm, active
-cooking: djsunkid, active
*happy: Issykitty, active
-music: doesn't have an overlord
-sports: michie, AWOL
-80s: dag, active
-cult: therealblankman, active
-hiphop: benjee, AWOL
-mystery: grspec, AWOL
-standup: winkler1, ?
-actionpack: wildmanBill, AWOL
-cute: doesn't have an overlord
-history: rickegee, ?
*nature: Arvana, active
-terrible: sometimes, active
-animation: thesnipe, ?
-dark: dystopianfuturetoday, active
-horror show: pyrex, AWOL
-obscure: Farhad2000, active
-travel: silvercord, ?
-art: plastiquemonkey, AWOL
-documentaries: Fedquip, active
-howto: maudlin, AWOL
*parody: dotdude, active
-videogames: Oatmeal, active
-asia: lucky760, active
-downunder: maatc, active
-humanitarian: bl968, AWOL
-philosophy: bluecliff, AWOL
*vintage: swampgirl, active
*books: kronosposeidon, active
-eia: karaidl, AWOL
-islam: gwaan, AWOL
-politics: doesn't have an overlord
-viral: doesn't have an overlord
-bravo: Deano, AWOL
-election08; joedirt, active
-jazz: choggie, active
-religion: LadyBug, AWOL
-waronterror: raven, AWOL
-british: Zifnab, active
-engineering: oxdottir, active
-kids: James Roe, active
-rocknroll: mlx, ?
-wildwestshow: doesn't have an overlord
-canada: calvados, active
-fear: blankfist, active
-latenight: eric3579, active
-science: rembar, active
-woohoo: Krupo, active
-catsanddogs: youdiejoe, active
-femme: intangiblemeg, ?
*lies: Fjnbk, active
*scifi: Firefly, active
-worldaffairs: histnerd, ?
-cinema: pigeon, ?
-gay: doesn't have an overlord
-livemusic: deathcow, active
-sexuality: persephone, ?
-wtf: Spiff, active
-comedy: doesn't have an overlord
*geek: gorgonheap, active
-meme: MarineGunrock, active
-shortfilms: Sarzy, active
-commercial: looris, ?
-grindhouse: dw1117, active
-military: darksun, AWOL
-spacy: lunkwill, active
And look at that - 8 channels. I thought 7 was the maximum.
If any channel has no owner or has been abandoned, then I think they should be put up for bid, with all gold stars and above being eligible. If more than one person bids on a channel, it should go to the member with the most stars.
As a matter of courtesy, I think every abandoned channel's owner should be contacted and formally asked if they wish to surrender their channels, but if no response is received in one week then it goes on the auction block. The same goes for those I marked with "?".
VS 2.2
http://www.videosift.com/talk/VideoSift-22-Channels
VS 2.4
http://www.videosift.com/talk/Happy-Siftiversary-and-VideoSift-24
Looks good guys, and yes the British Invasion is still in progress.
Yeah, it's just taking a couple hundred years.
After 2 damn years. Am still here too.
http://videosift.com/talk/The-Collective-List
I also posted the old school "categories" from then popular video sites in case anyone wants historical ideas or comparison to where we are today.
http://www.videosift.com/talk/GooTube-categories
Ladybug is active? are you sure?
Oops, my bad. Meant to mark her as "AWOL". Fixed.
Pmonkey voted on a sift of mine recently. She's a busy baby mommy
mlx said a while back she would be scarce.
Persephone recently did a siftography of someone (and she's Mrs. Dag so...)
At some point we need master categories and sub-categories.
Such as main category=religion subcategory=islam (all *islam are automatically enrolled as religion)
Same for politics with subcategories worldaffairs and election08
How is happy different from cute, or meme different from viral? Or eia different from wtf. Or shortfilms and cinema. Or horrorshow and fear. Some of these are more like a playlist.
At some point we need master categories and sub-categories.
Such as main category=religion subcategory=islam (all islam are automatically enrolled as religion)
Same for politics with subcategories worldaffairs and election08
You bring up a good point, I think there are far too many channels. And if anyones submitted a video as of late really your only using a couple of channel. And, no offense intended, but with shorfilms, grindhouse, cinema, and the like it just all seems very redundant.
I think there is enough freespace in regards to inactive channel owners and open channels that we could do some clean up work on all the channels on the site.
• Make sure videos belong on that channel
• Keep an eye on threads pertaining to that channel and make sure they are topic related
• Try to be supportive of videos assigned to that channel
• Encourage interaction among those sifters who frequent that channel
About the domain name vs channel issue, it really shouldn't matter. A mod rewrite can redirect all pages from an old subdomain to a new one, with no loss of pagerank.
* downunder is alive 'n' kickin'
Cultural
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80s: dag, active
asia: Lucky760, active
bravo (italian): Deano, MIA
british: Zifnab, active
canada: Calvados, active
downunder: maatc, active
kids: James Roe, active
geek: gorgonheap, active
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Entertainment
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1sttube: Grimm, active
vintage: swampgirl, active
animation: thesnipe, active
--> woo hoo: Krupo, active
latenight: eric3579, active
commercial: Looris, MIA
viral: Open
--> meme: MarineGunrock, active
comedy: Open
--> stand up: winkler1, active
--> parody: dotdude, active
music: Open
--> hiphop: benjee, MIA
--> jazz: choggie, active
--> rocknroll: MLX, ?
--> livemusic: deathcow, active
cinema: pigeon, ?
--> shortfilms: Sarzy, active
--> grindhouse: dw117, active
actionpack: wildmanbill, MIA
dark: dystopianfututretoday, active
horror show: pyrex, MIA
mystery: grspec, MIA
wild west show: Open
scifi: Firefly, active
documentaries: Fedquip, active
sports: michie, MIA
videogames: Oatmeal, active
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Educational
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art: plastiquemonkey, active
books: kronosposeidon, active
science: rembar, active
engineering: oxdottir, active
nature: Arvana, active
catsanddogs: youdiejoe, active
cooking: djsunkid, active
history: rickegee, MIA
military: darksun, MIA
spacey: lunkwill, active
travel: silvercord, ?
howto: maudlin, MIA
politics: Open
--> election 08: joedirt, active
--> war on terror: raven, MIA
--> world affairs: histnerd, active
religion: LadyBug, MIA
--> cult: therealblankman, active
--> islam: Gwann, MIA
humanitarian: bl968, MIA
philosophy: bluecliff, MIA
sexuality: persephone, active
--> femme: intangiblemeg, MIA
--> gay: Open
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Other
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cute: Open
--> happy: Issykitty, active
obscure: Farhad2000, active
terrible: sometimes, active
eia: karaidl, MIA
fear: blankfist, active
lies: Fjnbk, active
wtf: Spiff, ?
Could use a Geography / Region / County category for: Asia, British, Canada and Downunder
I like his new do. Very neat.
so do I; quite dapper!
::sighs, rubs own bald dome with Windex::
Yes, must've been tough to give the go-ahead to your barber's scissors, arvana. You now look like a cross between Kurt Russell and Matt Damon.
@dotdude:
Great idea. Those will be added to the FAQ.
>> ^joedirt:
Again, I will say this, do we need "meme" and "viral" why not expand the definition a little, or make a playlist. Same for "happy" and "cute". Also, some don't really fit and/or aren't that useful like obscure (which is essentially a playlist, since I wouldn't know what to put into that channel ever).
Meme and viral: Viral is strictly for viral advertisements.
Happy and cute: There are many situations where they are exclusive of one another. Cute stuff might make you happy, but there's a ton of vids that make you feel happy but cannot be called cute.
This coming from the guy with the "Election '08" channel. When's that going to be obsolete again?
After some thinking I created this (2b further tweaked) categorization based on joedirt's post. Most channels could fall into one (sub)category yet some were more vague in their description or channel name, which creates categorization problems which need to be attended. Here we go:
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Time
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80s: dag, active
future: jwray, active
vintage: swampgirl, active
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Geography
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asia: Lucky760, active
british: Zifnab, active
canada: Calvados, active
downunder: maatc, active
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Educational
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(general)
philosophy: bluecliff, MIA
science: rembar, active
(spirituality)
religion: jimnms, active
--> islam: Gwaan, MIA
cult: therealblankman, active
(natural world)
nature: Arvana, active
engineering: oxdottir, active
geek: gorgonheap, active
military: darksun, MIA
spacy: lunkwill, active
(social world)
history: rickegee, MIA
humanitarian: bl968, MIA
politics: Open
--> election 08: joedirt, active
--> war on terror: raven, MIA
--> world affairs: histnerd, active
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Identities/lifestyles
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catsanddogs: youdiejoe, active
drugs: rottenseed, active
geek: gorgonheap, active
kids: James Roe, active
sexuality: persephone, active
--> femme: intangiblemeg, MIA
--> gay: Open
travel: silvercord, ?
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Arts and Entertainment
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art: plastiquemonkey, active
animation: thesnipe, active
--> woo hoo: Krupo, active
bravo (italian): Deano, MIA
cinema: pigeon, ?
cooking: djsunkid, active
music: Open
--> hiphop: benjee, MIA
--> jazz/blues/soul: choggie, active
--> rocknroll: MLX, ?
--> livemusic: deathcow, active
shortfilms: Sarzy, active
sports: michie, MIA
videogames: Oatmeal, active
(a&e genres)
actionpack: wildmanbill, MIA
comedy: Open
--> stand up: winkler1, active
--> parody: dotdude, active
drugs: rottenseed, active
grindhouse: dw117, active
horror show: pyrex, MIA
mystery: grspec, MIA
scifi: Firefly, active
spacy: lunkwill, active
wild west show: Open
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Format
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1sttube: Grimm, active
books: kronosposeidon, active
bravo (italian): Deano, MIA
commercial: Looris, MIA
documentaries: Fedquip, active
howto: maudlin, MIA
latenight: eric3579, active
meme: MarineGunrock, active
shortfilms: Sarzy, active
viral: Open
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Opinions/Emotions
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cute: Open
dark: dystopianfututretoday, active
eia (stupid): karaidl, MIA
fear: blankfist, active
happy: Issykitty, active
lies: Fjnbk, active
obscure (underground): Farhad2000, active
terrible: sometimes, active
wtf: Spiff, ?
Mentioned twice:
-bravo (italian): Deano, MIA
-drugs: rottenseed, active
-geek: gorgonheap, active
-spacy: lunkwill, active
quality topic. Hopefully something will be done soon about the unsupervised channels (AHEM, admins).
To what do you elude, Mr. Poseidon? Have you a proposition you reckon's worth voicing?
I think the only option is to turn control over to members who want them, which I'm personally all for, but I haven't heard about any requests as of yet.
I haven't been actively managing Bravo but perhaps I can be disciplined and put an hour per week to cleaning it up etc. At this point in time I don't wish to give up Bravo.