Help get Blockland to the front page of Imgur!

[Candy Apple]

I saw this browsing the gallery. Get it to the front. I don't know why. It just seems like it'd be fun.

Plus, hatmod.

http://imgur.com/gallery/JqigT7O

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[$trinick]

This has 8 upvotes. It needs another 3,000 to reach the front page.

There aren't 3,000 forum members.

[Candy Apple]

This has 8 upvotes. It needs another 8,000 to reach the front page.

There aren't 8,000 forum members.

It doesn't, I've seen stuff get up there with only like 1k. Even then there's not that much, but with the POWER OF MAGIC and two browsers we can accomplish our dream.

[Night Fox]

This has 8 upvotes. It needs another 3,000 to reach the front page.

maybe that's the case for reddit, but on imgur it only needs 200 (or is it 300?)
imgur has a significantly smaller active community than reddit, and they compensate for that

[$trinick]

It doesn't, I've seen stuff get up there with only like 1k. Even then there's not that much, but with the POWER OF MAGIC and two browsers we can accomplish our dream.

I adjusted my numbers to be slightly more realistic, but the reason things with 1k get up there is because the speed at which they rise. That one is at least 8 hours old, which means more than likely it won't get up there with only 1k upvotes.

maybe that's the case for reddit, but on imgur it only needs 200 (or is it 300?)
imgur has a significantly smaller active community than reddit, and they compensate for that

Idk where you got Reddit from, I got that number from scrolling around and seeing how many upvotes the first page images had.

[Candy Apple]

considering it got 8 up votes in like, 5 minutes, its doing okay.

[$trinick]

considering it got 8 up votes in like, 5 minutes, its doing okay.

5 minutes? The first comment on the image is 7 hours old, so I'm gonna say the image has been up for longer than 5 minutes.

[Candy Apple]

5 minutes? The first comment on the image is 7 hours old, so I'm gonna say the image has been up for longer than 5 minutes.

7 hours ???

theforget???

the first comment on the image, organized by points, was 20 minutes

so yeah its longer, but still doing good

[Night Fox]

Idk where you got Reddit from, I got that number from scrolling around and seeing how many upvotes the first page images had.

that's not gonna get you anywhere
imgur was created for reddit as a place to upload images. and that's how it got popular. iirc, images that reach the front page on reddit are also on the front page of imgur. I'm pretty sure this makes up the majority of front-page images on imgur

also, forget what I said before, it's not that simple anymore
http://imgur.com/blog/2013/04/16/tech-tuesday-measuring-virality/
http://imgur.com/blog/2013/04/10/virality-scores-user-submitted-images/

[$trinick]

that's not gonna get you anywhere
imgur was created for reddit as a place to upload images. and that's how it got popular. iirc, images that reach the front page on reddit are also on the front page of imgur. I'm pretty sure this makes up the majority of front-page images on imgur

I think you misunderstood me. Let me clarify:

I don't know why you think I'm talking about Reddit. I came to the number 3,000 after visiting the imgur front page and seeing how many points the images on the front page of imgur had. Reddit was not involved.

[Night Fox]

I don't know why you think I'm talking about Reddit. I came to the number 3,000 after visiting the imgur front page and seeing how many points the images on the front page of imgur had. Reddit was not involved.

reddit is involved, whether or not you knew it at the time, because like I said, the majority of those images you saw are from reddit, which has much higher standards for the front page (I'm just assuming that, but I feel it's a logical assumption. I don't actually know anything about reddit for the most part)
everything else on the front page, that originates from imgur itself, quickly gains a lot of points simply because of the fact that it's on the front page, and the bulk of imgur users only browse the front page

[$trinick]

I don't see how that actually changes anything. Since Reddit exists and it pushes images to the front page with swells of upvotes, how does that make it any easier for a rogue image to get there? It seems like you're trying to explain what I'm saying by disagreeing with me.

[Night Fox]

I don't see how that actually changes anything. Since Reddit exists and it pushes images to the front page with swells of upvotes, how does that make it any easier for a rogue image to get there? It seems like you're trying to explain what I'm saying by disagreeing with me.

the front page only contains what's on the front page. it doesn't affect the images that actually reach the front page at all
on imgur there is the user submitted section, that is where this image is. there are people (very self-righteous people, at that) who browse user submitted, and they're the ones who will upvote images and make them reach the front page

I'm saying that what you said is wrong. it doesn't need 3,000 upvotes to reach the front page of imgur by any means. what you saw that made you reach that conclusion in the first place is irrelevant to the situation at hand

[$trinick]

How does the content currently on the front page not affect future front page content? The new front page content has to overcome the original front page content to take its position on the front page. The importance of an image decays over time, but unless everyone from Reddit stopped upvoting different images this image would need an extremely large shove to even compete for the front page.

[Night Fox]

How does the content currently on the front page not affect future front page content? The old front page content has to overcome the original front page content to take its position on the front page. The importance of an image decays over time, but unless everyone from Reddit stopped upvoting different images this image would need an equally large shove to get it onto the front page.

okay, hold on, I think there's a misunderstanding here about what the front page is
nothing has to overcome anything to get on the front page, at least not on imgur (still dunno much about reddit)
technically, it's not the "front page," really, it's "most viral"
once something reaches that threshold of "virality" that I mentioned in a post earlier, it gets to the front page. doesn't matter what's currently there, it's just added to it
the front page on imgur is a list, that gets images added to it. the images don't actually get replaced