Roll Safe Think About It

I have found that some users submit meme of the same subject in multiple streams. Which to do that would be to create one for each stream they want it in from scratch. In the pull down option for which stream to submit to, maybe you could choose up to 3 streams. That way they can post it in their favorite stream and any public stream.

Maybe I'm missing the point. The fastest way to post three (or more) memes is to create and post your meme in it's initially desired place. Then open a file "save picture as", open the second place you wish to post it, title and tag it...repeat. Should clear up the upvotes. But as I said, maybe I'm missing the point.

I thought it would be faster to pick up to 3 in the submission page. But, you think it's fast doing your way which it is now, that's cool. ArcMis comment brought up flaws I didn't thing of.

how would you count the upvotes on such a meme from difrerent streams?

how are you going to rank that meme?

30 upvotes is a solid frontpage meme in politics but maybe not top 5 pages in fun

how would the commenting be processed on such a multi-meme ?

I guess commenting would be a problem, and the upvote count also. I just assumed it could be 3 different pages of a meme. Which would mean 3 web addresses. So it's back to making 3 separate meme of the same subject. Oh well, it was just an idea.

I think you would actually want 3 separate pages for rank, upvotes, comments, etc., NOT combined.

Strictly from a PROGRAMMING point of view, the EASIEST thing to do would be just DUPLICATE THE RECORD, with new image URL's. When the user clicks "post", it creates the duplicate, and then when the user looks in their account instead of one submission they see 2 or 3, one for each stream.

For example, I sometimes post in Fun and then repost the next day in booty ON THE ASSUMPTION Fun will get a LOT more views and upvotes even though it'll be off Fun "Latest" within 1-2 days. (I always submit to Fun first, on the assumption that if I submit to another first the Fun mod probably won't feature it.)

I would want a SEPARATE count, not a combined. That lets me know whether in the future it's worth submitting similar memes to Fun or just submit to booty.

Also, people post DIFFERENT TYPES of COMMENTS in different streams. "Wow, she's got a great ass!" wouldn't be unusual in booty but probably few people would put something like that in the Fun comments--even though it's the same image with the same title, etc., and even if it's the same person upvoting and commenting in both streams.

There's also the problem that Fun posts DISAPPEAR ALMOST IMMEDIATELY. A post gets FEATURED and you go on 15 hours later and it's no longer in "Latest". A lot of people won't bother commenting because it only has about 20 views and they know almost nobody will see THAT comment, but they WILL comment in the OTHER stream(s).

I'm not sure of the logistics (although I think if it generates a new meme with a new address every time you resubmit, it might solve some of the problems), but I think that would be a really good idea. A lot of times, I don't know which stream a meme will do well in, and I want to experiment with it.

Maybe if you can submit the same meme multiple times instead of a one and done, like a submit again option on the users page of "my images". Plus, I might ask for a resubmit option for a meme that is kicked for a reason like wrong stream. It sucks if you put a lot of work in something and it gets kicked back to submission. Btw, you are the reason I came up with this idea. I noticed you posted the same meme in multiple streams.

Or I'd be just as happy if they just put imgflip how it was before. ;-)

I understand streams are good for finding memes of a certain type to post to Facebook etc., but they could have made that available just as easily with tags. They could have put a menu of "hot tags" used lately, e.g. next to the front page. Then people could click on them to see memes under tags they're interested in.

And with tags, it's very easy to put multiple ones on the same image. That way of searching would have been easier than dealing with all the different streams, which are confusing, and you don't know to search for if you don't know they exist.

I like it the old way. Originally, I thought it was to kill the conservative political memes (which were dominating) til the election was over and go back to normal. I was wrong, I guess it's here to stay. The gaming memes still show up nonstop. Just the other day I flag a two button with pubg, Fortnite that has been done a million times. So to me, the stream thing is not effective, only to those who follow the rules.

The picture in that meme comment is pretty funny.

Who knows? Maybe if we all continually ignored the rules, they might give up on the streams. 😉

I ignored them before, I'm sure will do it again.