Dec 6, 2006 - What's A View? What's With The Most Recent Page?, Read this post for the answers Options

[Andrew Slater]

Neat. Most of it makes sense. I woudl assume the system somehow weights the votes - so a 5 and a 1 don't really count as a full 5 and a full 1, because all your family/friend/5sap will vote 5, and then I'm sure there are people surfing that just vote 1, 1, 1, 1 - have you ever gone to HotorNot.com? It's just like that, only slower

No one can talk about this (it's the first rule of metacafe), but being a non-employee, I would guess that the system will count the "view" after a % of the video is complete. It's safe to say that most videos reach their climax, the point of the video, maybe 80-90% into it, and the rest is credits or other some such. So perhaps a viewer has to watch the video for at least 75% of the way before the view counts. It would be silly for them to count every view that clicks for 1% of the time, but equally silly to force peopel to watch the entire thing, when a lot of the end is pointless.

Large drops in ratings can be attributed to a lack of updates to the database from the backbone app.

So, here's my question then.... I asked in another post, but it's more apprpriate here. One video went to public distribution in about 10 minutes. But it also had a rating on it. My other videos have been viewed more, but have no rating. Is it safe to say that without the rating, it won't be going into "public distribution"?

So many questions, but I really like to understand these things

Andrew Slater

[Talia]

Okay, when videos are under review, the views don't count - only the ranks too. Because of VideoRank, you can't possibly have views and no rank - but either way, your video will get to Public Distribution once it has gotten a certain amount of ranks (and isn't flagged as problematic in any way).

[shanuea]

Okay, when videos are under review, the views don't count - only the ranks too. Because of VideoRank, you can't possibly have views and no rank - but either way, your video will get to Public Distribution once it has gotten a certain amount of ranks (and isn't flagged as problematic in any way).

Are ranks the same as ratings?
For example I've been posting a link to a video of mine that is under review, if people rate it one to 5 stars does this help it to be realeased? or must it be ranked in metacafe pro?

[adrik]

currently there are 10 videos on the most recent page with less than 3.00 rank and less than 1,000 views.
my video has had above 3.00 for a month and a half (currently 3.34), and over 2,000 views for a month.

After reading this thread, I reason that this video should be on the most recent page.
Please see if it is being missed by the system somehow.

Thanks,
Adrik

[tomboys2]

Did it drop below 3.0 at anytime? If so you would have gone to the end of the line (as I understand it.)
We just had a video released to Today's page that I uploaded 3 months ago... so I know it can take a while.

currently there are 10 videos on the most recent page with less than 3.00 rank and less than 1,000 views.
my video has had above 3.00 for a month and a half (currently 3.34), and over 2,000 views for a month.

After reading this thread, I reason that this video should be on the most recent page.
Please see if it is being missed by the system somehow.

Thanks,
Adrik

[adrik]

pretty sure it never fell, but no worries cause it just hit the page = )