I know theres lots of ways to order/sort the unsifted vids, but one I have wondered about would be:

"Ttime Queued / Total Views"

The idea being that this should catch all the vids that haven't had much chance atall yet (not even being watched by people, let alone given votes). It also has the advantage of putting vids soon to expire at the top of the list.

A good way to calculate this ratio for a vid might be by no. of hours in the sift, so a video in for 2hrs with 2 views has the same ratio as one with 1 view in 1 hr. A vid watched twice in 10 hrs, has a much higher ratio (so on the first page) than one with 10 views in 1hr.

This ranking would put vibrant sifts (with a high vote to view ratio, e.g 5 votes form 5 views) fairly high up. For such vids, they will have teh added benefit that those that have less time left will be ranked first (e.g. a vid with 5 votes for 5 views in 2days of sift que ranks higher than a vid with 5 votes for 5 views in 1hr), so it would favour those with less time left.

It should also bring forth all the vids noones even glanced at, regardless of voites, and which have been queued for days. the other nice sidefect, would be that as more people used this ordering to catch a few vids, the more views they would get, and so the order would keep changing and so spread the exposure around.

Sound workable?