I'm not sure about downvoting a video based on bad audio quality -- the embed could be replaced with a pristine one, at which point your downvote will remain regardless of how good the actual video is.

As for my voting philosophy -- if I like a video, even a tiny little bit, I'll upvote it. Otherwise I'll just leave it be. Downvoting feels a bit too aggressive to me.

Yeah, I rarely downvote. It's gotta be something I morally disagree with or is downright out of line and something I feel shouldn't be on the sift for me to want to click that down arrow.

Upvoting, I'm the same as Sarzy, if a video remotely entertains I'll upvote. Myself, I tend to look through the unsifted section a lot to try and get the good stuff sifted.

However, there are people here who downvote certain videos all the time. For example, there's a certain someone who seems to downvote any Family Guy clip he encounters. I'm not sure that's the best use of downvoting in my opinion, but I guess it's their right to be able to do that.

i'm notorious for downvoting cat videos. especially highbrow farting cats. and anything @blankfist posts, he's totaly gay.
everything else I'll usually upvote after a 10 € deposit on my paypal account (promotes cost 5 € extra)

unsifted viddies first-
Hardly eveer hit the front page or the featured columns....sometimes my radar goes up on a particular viddy, i hit the users queued vids, and go on a rampage when I find more of the same...

Also, since status and bling means so much to some, i sometimes find a user 10 or so away from a milestone, then i get a few other users to help me bust their cherry-rather, I TRY to get others to share the love.....very few help me out, since they take voting so seriously when it concerns their personal sticks up their asses-VOTE VISCERALLY that's my motto!!

Oh....and as with our newset bronze, Playinwithfire, i tend to focus a lot of attention on makin' the females happy-There are so few here and so many douchebag 20-30-something-mental-pre-teen males here,and so few women...well, fuck man-gotta tilt the scales when I can...

I go into every video with then intention of downvoting it...unfortunately, I'm easily entertained, so the video usually ends up with an upvote.

Lottery. Whatever I happen to hit while am hobo drunk in my computer chair.

Kittie videos have to be really good NOT to be downvoted, and have to be Maru to get an upvote.

that too...*hobo drunk

Easily Entertained = Rosy Palm and Her Five Sisters

If I didn't like the video, it gets downvoted!

some db (it was gwiz) told me i can't downvote for instance, every "Beatles" video, even though I hate 99% of Beatles songs. So now I have to downvote just stuff that i think other people think is downvoteable.

Don't sweat it marinara, gwiz is gwiz, some folks hate the beatles...

"Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Love is the law, love under will."

I scroll through each page and anything the catches my eye by thumbnail, subject or title (completely random) I open in a new tab. when I get to the end of the page, I stop and watch each vid in its own tab, and then close it. When I run out of Tabs, I jump to the next page and start again.

I up-vote anything that isn't absolutely blase.
If I had fun watching it - Up-vote.
If I learned something - Up-vote.
If I was inspired - Up-vote
If it caught my interest and made me research something regarding it - Up-vote

If it offends my sensibilities or doesn't belong on the sift - Down-vote. (rarely happens)

*quality

Awarding garmachi with one star point for this contribution to VideoSift - declared quality by UsesProzac.

If I feel it was worth my time to watch, upvote.

I downvote if:

* it's unfunny
* the video or title/description are mean-spirited
* it's uninformed bullshit in an area that I'm passionate about

I don't downvote if I don't think something is regulation. Rather, I sent it to siftquisition and let the collective decide.