Member Privileges - Elections Channel • Election.VideoSift: Online Video *Quality Control

Member Privileges

VideoSift member privileges and invocations are broken down by star ranking. The higher a member's star level, the more administrative abilities available. Invocations cannot be used on yourself unless noted otherwise below.

Charter Member

Absolutely no ads
Personal Blog
Six (6) concurrent submission slots in the unsifted queue
Two (2) Power Points per recharge period
Personal subdomain for your member profile, e.g., siftbot.videosift.com
Personalized colorizing for your username and comment background
Customizable styling for your member profile
Participation in the Sift Lounge chat room
Random Personal Queue videos listed on your profile
Use a YouTube video for your avatar image in comments

Probationary Member

Limited to one video in the queue
May be banned for breaking VideoSift rules and guidelines
Self promote^1,3 - use *promote (see Gold-100 below) on a post of your own
*kill¹ - permanently discard your own video
*beg² - send one of your own personal queued videos to Beggar's Canyon

Standard Member

3 videos allowed in the queue at one time
May be banned for breaking VideoSift rules and guidelines
Able to create Playlists
May cast upvotes on comments

Bronze Star Member

(25 Stars)

Able to cast downvotes
May cast downvotes on comments
Immune from banning
Able to fix deadpool videos
Able to replace own video thumbnail images and other member video thumbnails
*dead - flag a published or pqueued video as no longer working
*notdead¹ - reset a functional video accidentally flagged dead
*findthumb - update the thumbnail image for a video
*discuss - send a video to Sift Talk for discussion
*length=hh:mm:ss - specify the duration of other member videos (not for your own post)

Silver Star Member

(50 Stars)

All abilities of Bronze Star
May submit Flash videos from any video source
Able to start community Polls in Sift Talk
*discard¹ - remove a post submitted by a banned user
*return - return a *discussed post from Sift Talk
*nsfw - flag a post as being Not Suitable For Work
*blocked / *unblocked¹ - flag a video as (not) having a region blocked embed
*brief - flag a video as being shorter than 1 minute
*long - flag a video as being longer than 10 minutes
*notbrief - remove *brief flag from a video
*notlong - remove *long flag from a video
*nochannel - remove a post from all channels (not for your own post)
*[channel subdomain] - add other member post to the specified channel (not for your own post)
*ban - nominate or second a post's submitter for banning
*quality² - for videos, boost the post in the Hotness listing; for Sift Talk posts, award the submitter 1 Star Point; only once per post
*amazon=http://...⁵ - add an Amazon item to the post
Able to chat in Sift Lounge
*backup=[<embed...>]⁵ - Add alternate embed code to a video post

Gold Star Member

(100 Stars)

All abilities of Silver Star
Able to include images in Sift Talk posts
Able to edit video tags of other members
May flag comments as spam
*promote^1,2 - float a post at the top of the corresponding listing; renew queue time for queued/discarded videos
*doublepromote³ - same as *promote but doubles the time the post is "floated"
*frontpage⁴ - send a Sift Talk or Blog post to the front page
*dupeof=http://...¹ - nominate a video as being a duplicate of another (not if the original post is your own)
*isdupe - second a dupeof nomination

Ruby Member and Diamond Member

(250 Stars),

(500 Stars)

All abilities of Gold Star
May create, stylize, and run a video channel (my_topic.videosift.com)
Able to hobble and insta-ban problem members
May replace a post's video with backup embed code
*spammer - ban-hammer spammers and redact their comments
*sticky² - keep a Sift Talk post at the top of the listing
*unsticky - remove a stickied Sift Talk post

Crown Member

(1000 Stars)

All abilities of Ruby and Diamond Members
May use YouTube video for avatar

Galaxy Member ? (2000 Stars)

All abilities of Crown Members
Custom, artist-designed profile badge and username icon
Custom song written and performed by dag
One permanent extra queue slot
Lifetime complimentary Charter membership

¹ may be performed by any member on their own post
² requires 1 Power Point to use
³ requires 2 Power Points to use
⁴ requires 3 Power Points to use
⁵ only the one invocation and no other text may be in the comment