A few more changes around the place ...

You will notice a little panel at the top of the screen that says "Power Points". This is replacing the date based recharge system for *promotes. It acts in exactly the same way- though instead of looking in your profile to see if a promote is available- you just need to look at the panel. If you have 1 point there- you are go to promote.

We've also pulled *quality into the power point system. Now, if you want to *quality a Sift Talk post- you will need to spend your point. We're hoping that this will reduce a bit of the *quality inflation that we've seen lately.

The second change is that we've created a permanent donation system for VideoSift. The truth is - we're struggling a bit to pay the bills. With our surge in traffic starting from late last year, we've already outgrown one round of servers- and it's looking like we are going to need more soon. Of course this doesn't include the amount of staff time that goes into VideoSift. We've all been working for pretty close to nothing on VideoSift for almost 2 years- I would really like to compensate the people that spend so much time building and running the site.

We've created a donation page here- please have a read through and tell us what you think. We're offering a small "thank you" merit that is tied in with the above power point system.

As always, we're open for feedback on this- I know everyone will not be entirely happy with the changes- but we're doing the best that we can to keep our home on the web going. Thanks for your support.