Modern Problems! Man I loved that movie when I was a kid! I had no idea what he did to his girlfriend at the time, but I still wanted telekinesis as a power so badly. Even moreso when I became old enough to understand what he did ;)
@mods:
overregulation does nothing but to wind up with more work for the regulators, i.e. you.
why not imply gagging or blocking function?
every social media does that.
imgflip users would come to grips with themselves.
and you would have it pretty cushy.
We've definitely thought about blocking ability and a more personalized experience. The difference between your standard social media personalization (e.g. facebook/twitter) and streams is that you can only personalize globally and you only get one stream. But what if sometimes you enjoy browsing politics and sometimes not? Or maybe you enjoy someone's fun memes but not their politics?
It's not an easy problem to solve perfectly and we'll continue working on it.
Filter would have been my solution as well. Distinction...not so much. We should be able to make fun of anything... let ostracization decide be the judge of value.
This would have been my suggestion. Perhaps I will adapt. It's definitely a step backward to deny a third submission on the "fun" stream where there were three before. You would do well to remember that if this site keeps getting all complicated and frustrating to use, people will leave. Imgflip is on probation for me. Also: gaming? That really just eliminates all those memes cause almost none are funny and worth looking for on yet another separate stream. Just my input for today. Thanks for reading.
Thanks for the suggestion, it's good fuel for thought. Definitely need to figure out how the flip settings will evolve now.
We're trying out the stream approach because it can scale to so many different categories. Gaming is great as a separate stream if you don't like gaming, because then you never have to look at it, but if others like gaming they can enjoy a full dose!
I don't see gaming memes make the front page that often, much less page 3. True, there are people just as passionate about their games as people as there are people that are passionate about politics Heck, I usually avoid politics, but I have put a few out there, like this one when I first started posting. I made it for posting elsewhere, but when I decided to become active I posted it. Or this one: , my first featured meme (I just hadn't been sharing them here) when I posted this, about a year after I made it, it went to page one.
I just did my first submission in a while. I was surprised to see how different it is.
Then honestly you should just add a checkbox for every category, like the pic ArcMis created to reply to me a few posts above this (or actually, the same thing he posted in reply to you right here). As it is right now, you've got two features essentially doing the same thing.
There will be hundreds of thousands of categories. There are already over one thousand, we're just not listing user-created streams yet, but that will come soon.
And perhaps ability to subscribe to streams so you see the ones you care about at the top or as your homepage.
Sorry to post this here, didn't know anywhere to send it, but there's another problem with the new stream system. It seems that memes that get put in any stream besides "fun" don't appear anywhere in the users "recent submissions/see all" on their profile page. Only memes marked "fun" are shown there, meaning people can't get or give upvotes via profile links on memes from any other stream.
Well I didn't mean literally every possible category, I should have clarified that I was referring to the reasonable umbrella categories; Fun, Political, and NSFW
The problem as I see it is that political memes are now penalized (some may say censored). It doesn't matter how well a political meme is received by the imgflip community if it is a political meme, because it will never be seen in the 'Hot' stream as far as I can tell. Kindly filter like NSFW, instead of banishing.
There should be an edit captions setting for memes you already posted, so that you don't have to delete and repost it every time you want to make an edit. Should allow for under 8 views or so, then editing disables for that meme after that.
I see, thx.
no global blocking needed. everybody who scrolls on imgflip does so on his own risk. just allow some blocking tool on one's own meme's comment section and maybe vote section.
this would help a lot against toll stalking and downvote bombing.
(contacted You about that later issue on another comment section).
That linked meme above pretty much get's it: entering someone's meme is like entering his house.
In general, I will answer what I can as a mod. I'm not sure. That paragraph in the Submission Guidelines is new, I saw it for the first time this past weekend.
I've never been much of a political memer, so it's easy for me to steer clear of political memes. I remember a few that were so good I had to comment, I think they were neutral, bipartisan, non-partisan. I guess the only way to find out what meets this new guideline is to see what sticks and have fun in the process.
For me, a great improvement would be MORE submissions. In addition, the ability to manage my content more precisely would be awesome. I might even consider becoming a paid subscriber for that service. My PC presents pictures as thumbnails. Easier to manage. Here, one has to endlessly scroll to make decisions about deletion or locating old memes for re-use. I want to use the same memes as over again when they work well. That's not so easy when I can't find them in a reasonably timely manner by scrolling through pages at a snails pace. I wish I had backed up all my creations, but alas...I was not wise enough to consider it in the beginning. I would also love to go back and delete memes that I once thought were good but subsequently realized were trash. Anyway, thanks for reading.
I've brought up the idea of 3 submissions for fun and better way to get your submitted and unsubmitted creations backed up to your device. A button for users to download their own creations in bulk is a possible site upgrade. It's on the table.
[image deleted]LOL not sure how that's gonna go working :D
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So please explain why this meme has spent days basking in submitted https://imgflip.com/i/2jfahe whilst you can produce a foreign language meme expecting everyone is Canadian and can read French, which is forbidden by your rules?
As For 1. neutral....not supporting or helping either side in a conflict
2. Bipartisan...... involving the agreement or cooperation of two political parties that usually oppose each other's policies.
3. Partisan......prejudiced in favour of a particular cause.
Only goes to prove you have got a clue what you're rambling on about.
Thanks for asking. I don't have all the answers about your submission, but I'm not submitting my comment image to the community for featuring. If I did, I would not expect it to be approved for featuring. I said non-partisan, not partisan.
You, maybe not, but I've seen many, many memes made in other languages that have been featured, while browsing Latest.
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That's a bit Irish, your comment is posted on one of imgflips master meme makers pages with nearly 5000 views and is likely to exceed that by a further multitude of views so submitted or not it is will to be viewed by more users than most memers ever get to view their submitted memes.
As for non-partisan, that is worse than being partisan, the non partisan gun runner selling his wares to both sides, in the same ware a non-partisan memer can just play off one against the other with impunity and is a liecense/licence to troll.
I know it's not easy driving a bus but half the battle is being on the right route, and at present imgflip isn't.
The Circus is the people and the people are the Circus, so don't take the bread away.
