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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
*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

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 from all site activity
*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 a 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://... - add an Amazon item to the post (the entire comment can only be the invocation)

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
Able to chat in Sift Lounge
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://... - declare a video as being a duplicate of another (not if the original post is your own)