Confused Gandalf

There are many interesting things to meme about other than downvotes!

LOL Love this comment!

I know, its a little bit of a friendly dig at Raydog as he currently has a "downvote" front page meme. Its not a big deal to me either way as I rarely used it except in cases of blatant douchebaggery. I often upvote points of view that differ from mine to hopefully encourage others to join in the commentary.

I really love that word...LOL

One of my favorites, never been sure if it just popped into my head one day or I heard someone else use it.

This means crappy memes will make it to the front page.

Nahhh front page is for memes that are getting the most action. Comments/likes, crappy ones will just end up on page 3758392 as long as comment wars don't start in the comments

Comments, no.

Once, an idiot posted 200 comments on his meme just to get it in the front page. It didn't work xD

I don't see how a crappy meme would make it to the front page even with no downvotes...if it is indeed crappy people aren't gonna upvote it...they may not get downvoted back to submission, but if noone upvotes it, the meme isn't gonna go anywhere.

PAH! Seriously? Of frontpage memes it is rare that one makes me actually chuckle and I have seen some on latest that have made me do that really unattractive, blurty BLAHA!!!! Sorry ... just truth.

I didn't mean just comments. But comment wars, with multiple people commenting. Because each time someone goes to comment its a view. The front page is just for the ones being interacted with the most.

Not unless they get upvoted, which probably will not.

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So some of my submissions are still not featured. No downvote bar makes me wonder why. So if there is no downvote bar we just have to assume that people are still downvoting the hell out of something like little evil jerks or that the admins decide ... nah, just won't feature this.
Since the bar has been removed I've gone from 78% featured to 73%. I am just not understanding. Some of my stuff is not too bad but if no one ever sees it I am just making them for myself I guess.

I'm not all about points. But this site becomes a lot less fun when you comment all over other people's memes and hardly anyone sees yours. Just saying.

Nothing really changed in the algorithm. The most upvoted images should still get to the top. But as with many voting systems, there is some luck/randomness involved.

So can you explain how does a meme not get featured? So latest memes are all memes created? And a meme gets featured off of there? For what? For views? Upvotes?
Can you explain the algorithm? I haven't found a page on this site that explains how anything actually works. It can be frustrating.

This is our official about page: imgflip.com/about. We may expand on that at some point, but for now that's our public description of how submissions work.

Submissions are only a tiny tiny subset of all images created. There are ~100,000 images created every day on imgflip, many of them shared on social networks.

(Error 404 on the about page.)

Have to take out the period

And the about page can be found at the bottom of all the pages on imgflip. It just isn't very in depth lol

Right. So like I said ... now that we cannot track our downvotes ... we have no way of knowing whether it is because a meme is unpopular with the public or if it is the moderators who just don't like them. "Imgflip users and/or moderators can then vote on your submitted images, and the best ones will make it to the homepage." Removing of the dislike bar seems to have given moderators a lot more anonymity. I can only assume since I have had such a drop off after the removal of the bar and since the 'algorithm hasn't really changed" that it is mainly due to moderators.
Bummer.

And at some point in all that mess, there are still those that think there should never be a repost. Lol!

Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of no downvotes...I just made that meme because it seems to be something that a lot of people are identifying with right now...any word as to whether or not it is temporary? Just curious...

REMOVE DOWNVOTES

but now how are we supposed to complain about downvote fairies and hog the front page?!

I know right? They just removed a very "movable" product. Annoying as it might be...memes about downvotes got upvotes, simply because everyone could identify with it....simple fact right there.

I am sensing there was a downvote CIA/Illuminati/conspiracy. Oh this is not good. Secretly downvoting memes so that people would be upset about downvote fairies, therefore can post memes about downvoting in order to get upvotes. Clever, very clever. But! Now that the downvote bar is gone the power has shifted. mmm hmmm.
So maybe all those who want it back are in some star chamber, inner circle, meminati.

So far as I can tell, the majority of those that want the downvote button back are the ones that use it for trolling...there are exceptions, but i've seen countless trolls crying about it more than anyone else.

Yeah, I'm honestly thinking on quiting imgflip

There seems to be alot of people talking like that...

yep

For whatever it's worth, I hope you stay.

I did say thinking so nothings a promise

downvoted... damnit!

Lol, no you didn't, it has 1 up - two other people wouldn't have saved me that quickly.

downvoted again

:)

downvoted for being blue

:)

upvoted

Jk, i pressed downvote