Shared resources is tricky. Yes, you reduce server storage needed to host 10000 copies of "Your the man now dog," but in turn, you also put more stress on that single file to bear the brunt of thousands of users all trying to access it at once from different YTMNDS.

Similarly to Digg, new websites that enter top viewed often times are the result of having friends vote and view their sh*t. If, however, a site gets 1'd (or buried in the case of digg) enough times after entering the top viewed, it will fall off the front page quicker than a site in top viewed that gets many 5's (or Diggs again in the case of Digg).

After pondering it some more, you could also make YTMNDs like Digg stories: after x amount of days (for Digg its one day, but YTMND is smaller) the YTMND falls off the front page, no matter what. While many times every day there are new "top viewed" YTMNDs, this would prevent sites like "Epic Mount" from staying in top viewed for months (hopefully not).

For example, many ytmnds have viewcounts less than 500 and have been there more than a month (sometimes even longer). Make it so any ytmnd that doesnt meet the criteria of 200 views at the end of one month automatically gets deleted. Then a second criteria that any ytmnd that doesnt meet 1000 views at the end of 6 months gets deleted. This way, a lot of crap that no one watches will get purged.

Deleting all the sites would also be a bad idea. No matter how many you saved, there would always be a favorite that wouldnt be and much crying would ensue. Plus, the minute any large amount of content is deleted people will leave. Kind of like resetting a huge ranking system: people that worked hard over the years now are back to step zero. Instead, perhaps make it so any site that doesnt meet a certain criteria gets automatically deleted.

Try something along the lines of Newgrounds: people that vote more often get a vote worth more than one. Maybe calculate how many votes someone has given, how many sites they have made (and the quality of those sites), registering date, etc. High scoring and highly voted YTMND sites could carry the most weight towards an authors "Voting" score, followed by registering date, followed by number of votes the author has given, etc.

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/8428/fnuts7copyzl1.jpg Just something I whipped up in 5 minutes. To be honest, I find it funny that you can find a great camera to take a picture of your goods, but a sh*tty camera when it comes to proving who you really are. How.. Convenient? That, coupled with the evidence that no women exist on the internet, yet alone ytmnd, lead me to 1 star this until other evidence presents itself.

I commend you good sir.

http://stevenseagulllies.ytmnd.com/ Haha, you got owned. Delete this site and your account, and go back to ebaumsworld, where stealing content without showing sources is ok.

"This ebaums thing is just a cookie." Is this the only man with any PC Knowledge? Cookies are sh*t compared to other spyware. I am as anti-ebaum as anyone, but yelling "that f*cker" over a cookie is ridiculous. Please get a clue.

I play wow and that was still the lamest top 15 I have ever seen.

I see neither Joshcube, Any spinners, or Brian. Fission mailed?

The possibilities are endless... But this possibility isnt funny.

Would be more funny with Elton Johns "Rocket Man" :P

I voted 5 to spite you. Ha.

I agree with WBOtis, I can not read at the rate you are changing pictures. Very distracting. Slow it down :)

Im sick and tired of these motherf*cking lobsters on the motherf*cking plane!

Haha that was awesome. 5'd

Good, but do you really need the name on EVERY PICTURE