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Re: Please stop using Videosift.

Aug 4, 2016, 09:38

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The "trending" tab on Youtube doesn't actually have anything to do with your filterbubble (you were probably thinking of the "recommended" section), but I get your point. Videosift isn't really "sifting" and then spitting out good videos that people are then finding and linking to. It has far too small of a user-base for that. With so little foottraffic to videosift the reddit style up/down voting of videos doesn't really work... Unless I'm really reading things wrong, less than a dozen people vote on most videosift submissions... so only the submitters control what is "popular" on videosift through their own link-sharing. I'm not saying that Ant (or anyone else) should stop submitting them, just saying that the claims below that the site is doing something useful and deserves the click-through traffic are unwarranted. It is unlikely that the "video" was actually found on Videosift in the first place.

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Comment The "trending" tab on Youtube doesn't actually have anything to do with your filterbubble (you were probably thinking of the "recommended" section), but I get your point. Videosift isn't really "sifting" and then spitting out good videos that people are then finding and linking to. It has far too small of a user-base for that. With so little foottraffic to videosift the reddit style up/down voting of videos doesn't really work... Unless I'm really reading things wrong, less than a dozen people vote on most videosift submissions... so only the submitters control what is "popular" on videosift through their own link-sharing. I'm not saying that Ant (or anyone else) should stop submitting them, just saying that the claims below that the site is doing something useful and deserves the click-through traffic are unwarranted. It is unlikely that the "video" was actually found on Videosift in the first place.

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