I was just thinking about all of our very long time members and that got me wondering... Is VideoSift part of your daily routine? I mean there are lots of sites out there that people check out from time to time and others you only go to when you're looking for something specific.
What is VideoSift to you? Is it your daily "I need to check out all the new videos" fix? How often do you visit on average? And when you do visit, how long do you stay?
Finally, how long have you been a member? More importantly how long do you foresee yourself continuing to be a member? There are a few oldies who, for various reasons, have up and quit in the past, but I can't imagine that I would ever have any reason to ever stop visiting VideoSift.
For me it's not just a fad or a phase, but a part of life. Even if I wasn't part of the administration, I imagine I'd always visit on a daily basis at the very least to watch great videos and at the most to partake in some random commentary. (No matter how busy I am with work and other things, I always have the itch to stop everything and take time out just so I can see what I've missed in the top 15.)
What is VideoSift to you? Is it your daily "I need to check out all the new videos" fix? How often do you visit on average? And when you do visit, how long do you stay?
Finally, how long have you been a member? More importantly how long do you foresee yourself continuing to be a member? There are a few oldies who, for various reasons, have up and quit in the past, but I can't imagine that I would ever have any reason to ever stop visiting VideoSift.
For me it's not just a fad or a phase, but a part of life. Even if I wasn't part of the administration, I imagine I'd always visit on a daily basis at the very least to watch great videos and at the most to partake in some random commentary. (No matter how busy I am with work and other things, I always have the itch to stop everything and take time out just so I can see what I've missed in the top 15.)
Stumble This
(yeah, daily routine)
It's still home for me though, and I'm invested here. I check in daily if only to check the comments, blogs and talk posts. On the weekends I might post some old clips and kick some 80s and 90s sifts out of my channel
Aww, shucks folks I've grown attached to you all over the years.
I'm here every day. I use it as much for sift talk and comments as for videos. I think of it as talk/comments turn my brain on, while the videos turn it off, so I get a good balance going there ~ just enough brain activity to make a penis joke of some sort.
I was growing weary of the continued drama and contrived drama there was here recently, but I've since discovered the joys of [ignore] and I happy again.
I heavily invested in the community as well, I think, in that it feels like I know you people. Some I know better than others, but I know many of y'all. I love the whole format too, much better than forums, because the up/downvote buttons makes it much cleaner, because there isn't all the typical agree/disagree but say nothing posts.
I like that discussions, particularly with proper, intellectual grownups, with actual brains (unlike youtube).
Yes there's drama. Yes there are types here *cough*billorielly*cough*cp420*cough* that might make it seem not worthwhile to stay, but I do. I've come to love this place as a home *hugs swampy*
Visits are almost strictly for videos now, though. The commentary on current events vids started to turn me off enough that I actually turned on a few channel filters to deal with it. Basically, I come to videosift for entertainment, not to have the horrors of the world bashed into my brain anymore than they already are. That part of VS has just become too tiresome. I do get the commenting bug sometimes, though. In fact, I think I posted more comments today than in the entire previous week.
Been a member since 7/07, lurked for a couple months before that. (I think the desire to comment on this video is what finally caused me to register. Wow, I was pretty angry.
[edit] oh I forgot to hug swampgirl. <hug><goose>
Occasionally I have bouts of activity, due to recent events. I also sometimes see the need to post some music and vids but it never makes published status anymore because frankly you are all still philistines.
Large influx of stupidity recently.
^That.
And I've been here since 2007-02-22, so I'm almost on 2 years now, woo.
I remember the 9/11 conspiracy argument drama. These days I might skim through it but I generally don't have time to dive into the long running stuff.
Oh lookie, I'm less than 300 comments away from hitting 10,000. I know various people have already hit that mark and surged past it - and in shorter periods of time - but that's still a ridiculous number of comments. (Then again, probably not too many people nearing that milestone - I see Farhad, for example, is just 77 past that dubious distinction). (!)
Does Grand Marnier go with gin? Has anybody here had a gin and grapefruit juice, with a splash of Grand Marnier on the rocks? Hence forth, it is called the 'rougy' at least by me.
This is a special place. I still have to make a point of staying away from it sometimes or I'll waste seven hours if I waste one. And waste isn't the right word, because I'm a news junkie and...the info and different perspectives that I get from this place must surely be good for my soul.
I have to stay away from here sometimes, and I do miss some of the people who have faded away, but I am here daily between five minutes and ten hours.
I think...that a place like this has even more to offer than videos.
I see a hell of a lot of talent here, and it would be great if we could all conspire to save the world.
It's like Barney spending more time at Moe's than Moe... (which, again, makes Farhad the uber-Barney, of course).
edit: Oh we're drinking? Shots of bourbon straight and sipping a Diet Rite soda to chase the ack ack of it being cheap Evan Williams.
Anyways, since the biggest complain is "drama" what about a *nonsense invocation that can be used to filter out the meany name-calling threads. But that just empowers trolls. One other option is to auto-hide any > -5 comments or something like that, but then it makes the problem worse because then you get self-appointed comment police.. and the moderation wars escalate.
I really hate some of the things that people say here, and I've ignored two people.
But you know what? Their idiocy is half of my fun and I usually look at what they said anyway.
I think the gestalt here now is pretty good.
No need for Mother Superior smacking the back of our hands with a ruler just because we gave the wrong answer.
http://blog.videosift.com/lucky760/Various-Statistics-for-2008
sifted per month (and more unsifted?) - it would improve our combined (we can't all be here all day..) quality selection and the user management of the videos/comments.
I want to take the relationship further, but videosift says we should keep it platonic.
Can't forget to *hug swampgirl*
Usual stops are the Top 15, SiftTalk, Blogs, my own queue, the discussions around featured comments and sometimes the deadpool.
If the amount of time I spent here so far would be translated into a dollars per hour I´d have a small house by now.
When asked about addictions on medical forms I always put: videosift.com
My wife thinks I am crazy for spending so much time here, but lets me anyway.
That´s why I married her.
I only close it when I leave work, and when I go to sleep at night. It's basically just in the background 24/7.
Although I'm relatively new here, I find the commentary to be pretty damn awesome. There's some intelligent people who represent a diverse array of subjects, from economic, to artistic, to conspiratorial, and I appreciate all of it.
After meeting some of you, however, I'm having second thoughts on staying.
See ya!