I moved the messages to the bottom. Do you think I should just get rid of the box all together?

super mate! yeah, try it without the box. ill have some free time tomorrow so ill try to do a little mockup if you want :)

Good stuff. I'd love to see a mockup of what you have in mind. Thanks for the support.

I agree. Do you think it would be better placed under the action buttons?

and dont make it to end the video when you vote :)

Good suggestion. Maybe I'll just have the skip and dislike buttons automatically move to the next video. Maybe the Awesome button will get changed to a next button using jQuery. What do you think?

dunno, kinda like the awesome button. you can make next and previous buttons on the left and right sides of the video, and the history on the bottom, without the box; just like a regular history. thats how i would do it. but great project though :)

Good stuff. I like your suggestion of putting the next and previous buttons on the right and left of the video.