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 is there any way to still view how many votes a video had when it was discarded? like a small numeral on the can or near it?
the reason i ask is that sometimes i want to save a video, but since i only get one/week, i don't want to save a video with only 2 votes. if it had 6 or 7 though, it's worth the save. Comments  |
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anyway ... yeah, what the dude said!
And while it's true that it does list the number of votes inside the video page it would be nice to have something that would show the votes in my discarded pages, over many videos so I can quickly see which one merits more.
I disagree Ladybug, the nature of the sift means that there is a lot of people who post excellent videos (NickyP!) but their videos quickly get kicked down the queue, so by the time they manage to attain 7 or 8 votes they die. Isn't this why the save invocation was created after all?
Furthermore saying that each video needs to survive on its own merit, is too harsh there are so many videos I have seen here that I might otherwise never had... like why would I ever look for a video of a midget break dancing?
Basically what I mean to say, there is a lot of videos that people didn't know they'd love to see.
i guess since i'm a sift addict and basically hit every page of videos/comments ... i tend not to lose any later in the queue.
i hadn't thought of that ... thanks!
If it only had one or two votes, it's often worth just re-posting it and not 'wasting' a save (unless you're super-chivalrous and want the person to get credit... I'd rather just repost if I think it's worthy and save *another* one of that person's vids).
Unless it's a video that's especially special to me (or I'm feeling particularly lazy), I'll usually avoid the low-vote-gotten vids for saves.
And I totally agree with your comment Farhad (especially the NickyP namedrop!) - apart from the total votes for discards being needed: surely you can count up to eight?
Personally, anything I think's a great, yet discarded Sift gets a save (no matter the number of votes, unless the total's negative)...I have a long list I'm working through, slowly!
I don't have the time to click on each one and scroll down and see how many votes it got especially when I have a save, I'd click to simply click on my profile, go to the Discards, and then instantly be able to tell how many votes each discarded video got, pick one and save it.
</BIG_HEAD>A number over the trash icon would be useful for you slackers (Farhad!) who can't be arsed counting to eight (can you tell I ignore votes when saving Sifts?
I mean everyone loves Ninjas, anyone will tell you that... but I submitted Hexstatic - Ninja twice to see it fail while getting around 5 to 6 votes. I realized now it's a hopeless case.
So the idea behind the number is at least to bring back discarded videos that at least some majority expressed an interest and a vote for. I have nearly 50 discarded videos, I want to know quickly which out of the 50 got the most votes.
Want to be big headed eh? I did A Level English Literature and got an A, which is funny considering I got B's in IGCSE English and literature.