Michael Jackson may be dead, but his songs live on – and tribute music videos made by his fans continue to pour in. Here’s a Michael Jackson a capella medley by Sam Tsui, Sam Tsui, Sam Tsui, Sam Tsui, Sam Tsui, Sam Tsui, and Sam Tsui.
(vocals: Sam Tsui, as you can guess; arrangement and production: Kurt Schneider)
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Tim Giachetti
How did this get on the main page when last I saw in que it had a -5 rating?
Christophe
I bribed Alex 
I posted the Ikea Times story, this one or the RunPee website and they were voted down. They’re now on the front page. I guess you cannot please everybody, one controversial or blander post from time to time does not hurt the overall quality of the website.
Justin
I don’t know why this would get downvoted so much. I’m not a huge Jackson fan, but it was pretty well done. Thanks for the link.
felixthecat
It would appear, then, that voting in the upcoming queue is pointless. Vote it down, it appears anyway for no reason any of us are privy to.
Alex
@felixthecat – votings weigh very heavily in the UQ algo, but because of the size of the voting population compared to other websites like digg or reddit, the UQ is prone to user manipulation (sock puppetry, vindictive downvotes, etc).
That’s why admins can and do interject themselves into the mix by manually promoting posts that should’ve made it but didn’t.
From the Upcoming Queue FAQ:
Equal Chance to Get Promoted to Front Page
On Neatorama, all submitted posts are created equal. Don’t have a lot of buddies that will vote for your submissions? No problem. There are two ways to be promoted to front page: votes and editor’s pick.
The first one is easy: good posts with a lot of votes will be promoted to Neatorama’s front page (though we do reserve the rights to override these in cases of duplicate posts, inappropriate content and spam).
The second method, editor’s pick, is a way to even up the playing field a bit for submitters who don’t have a lot of friends voting for their submissions. Basically, Neatorama editors will look for good posts – regardless of the number of votes garnered – to promote to the front page.
Thank you!
TRK
I thought it was great, but he left out my favorite Jackson song. Which is just too *Bad*.
Tim Giachetti
no more voting on the queue page for me then. makes no sense to at this point.
Christophe
Tim, I think you’re generalizing too much. How many downvoted posts were boosted on the front page overall? I believe just a little fraction of the total posts.
I’m still in the UQ game
Neatness is in the eye of the beholder.
Video Game Dork
He might have needed 7 people to get the tracks/harmony he wanted for the piece, so that’s ok. The narcissistic thing IMO was the cheering he dubbed in for himself at the beginning and end.
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