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| − | The first time I saw the term "Circle Jerk" used to describe a group of YTMND voters was when Max made a spiteful rant against the FPA on some site comment page. I thought it was funny and have been using it ever since. But rather than pick on the FPA (though they be true circle jerkers for sure), whose sites seldom get more than a couple of hundred views, I have targeted the biggest offenders of group upvoting on YTMND | + | The first time I saw the term "Circle Jerk" used to describe a group of YTMND voters was when Max made a spiteful rant against the FPA on some site comment page. I thought it was funny and have been using it ever since. But rather than pick on the FPA (though they be true circle jerkers for sure), whose sites seldom get more than a couple of hundred views, I have targeted the biggest offenders of group upvoting on YTMND. |
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Since I became an active YTMNDer I have gone out of my way to insult and piss off any circle jerk group I perceive. To be honest the effect this has had on my scores is less than what I thought. But I mean, they ain't good or anything. | Since I became an active YTMNDer I have gone out of my way to insult and piss off any circle jerk group I perceive. To be honest the effect this has had on my scores is less than what I thought. But I mean, they ain't good or anything. | ||
It really can't be denied that because of Circle Jerks YTMND is more of a Social Network site than anything else. | It really can't be denied that because of Circle Jerks YTMND is more of a Social Network site than anything else. | ||
| − | That's why I hate you all so very much | + | That's why I hate you all so very much. |
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| + | I try to vote fair. But it's hard when so many of the sites you see are by users you are familiar with. | ||
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| + | I think people expect certain types of sites from certain users. I try to ask myself what I would vote on a site if another user, someone I am a fan of, made it. Or someone I wasn't a fan of. | ||
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| + | There need to more 4s. There need to be less 1s. That's been true for a long time. | ||
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| + | I'm not a fan of fads. | ||
| + | I will downvote Jim Carrey and Will Smith YTMNDs unless they are making fun of them in a manner I feel is appropriate. | ||
| − | + | I tend to add an extra star for citing sources, classic style sites, uniqueness and sometimes even effort. | |
Revision as of 23:35, July 2, 2008
What the huh?
That was my reaction when someone on a message board made a thread called 'This Is For Umfuld' with a link to Batman: ualuealuealeuale. inside. I showed it to my brother who liked it even more than I did. He told me about the links back to YTMND which I had ignored and said I should check it out. We both signed up and started making bad sites. But as he has an actual life his site making never improved while mine, ever so slowly, did.
Batman
Not surprisingly my first site to get a lot of views was an Adam West site done in YTMND's Classic Style.
I was very unfamiliar with the workings of YTMND at the time. I knew only that there was some box called Up and Coming and that was where you wanted your site to go. My site went there and stayed there all of 6 hours before it collected the 300 votes needed at the time.
But its success hurt it in a way. Because it did so well it was off the front page before it could become a top viewed (Top Rated This Week must not have been a box at that time). I really don't care about ratings very much but you need look no further than this site to see the dark side of YTMND. When it got its 300th vote my site had a rating of almost 4.70. In the year and a half since then it has dropped over .40.
In truth it's not that great a site.
Since I have pretty much every good line from the series memorized it was always pretty easy for me to pick a good one for a classic style site. Though I did show considerable restraint in waiting 5 months after my first popular site before I made Batgirl May Be In Danger. I knew that would be my highest rated site before I posted it. You couldn't have sat on a guaranteed Top Viewed site for 5 months. So shut up.
It's a flawless presentation of a classic style YTMND. So of course it is incredibly underrated.
People seem sick to death of Adam West these days. I like to think I had something to do with that.
Circle Jerk
The first time I saw the term "Circle Jerk" used to describe a group of YTMND voters was when Max made a spiteful rant against the FPA on some site comment page. I thought it was funny and have been using it ever since. But rather than pick on the FPA (though they be true circle jerkers for sure), whose sites seldom get more than a couple of hundred views, I have targeted the biggest offenders of group upvoting on YTMND.
Since I became an active YTMNDer I have gone out of my way to insult and piss off any circle jerk group I perceive. To be honest the effect this has had on my scores is less than what I thought. But I mean, they ain't good or anything. It really can't be denied that because of Circle Jerks YTMND is more of a Social Network site than anything else.
That's why I hate you all so very much.
Featured
So we all remember where we were the day we found out Umfuld became a YTMND featured user. But no really, I am touched that I was added as I don't think my scores really merited it. I have made a real effort to make better sites since.
I wasn't going to make any sites once I became featured but then realized that it's the only way I can have any real impact on the type of sites seen on YTMND. If I make an original joke and someone sees it and signs up to YTMND because of that - then it will be better than some idiot 12 year old signing up because he saw some stupid video game site that would be there in its place.
I've made a few sites that are rated over 4 in the five weeks I've been featured and a couple of more that would have been if posted by almost anyone else.
So I'm pretty sure I can make sites people enjoy (though sites I think are great bomb and sites I'm not sure about kill, without fail). But right now I'm torn between my wanting YTMND to become more active because I love it and secretly hoping it dies in a pit dug by its own gayness.
La communauté
I never really got into the different forms of internet chatting around YTMND. I'm older than everyone there. And while I joke that it would be creepy for someone my age to chat with kids the truth is that kids are pretty boring. And I don't care if me saying that ruins your laife!
I enjoy being ignorant to everything YTMND beyond the Front Page.
VOTING
I try to vote fair. But it's hard when so many of the sites you see are by users you are familiar with.
I think people expect certain types of sites from certain users. I try to ask myself what I would vote on a site if another user, someone I am a fan of, made it. Or someone I wasn't a fan of.
There need to more 4s. There need to be less 1s. That's been true for a long time.
I'm not a fan of fads.
I will downvote Jim Carrey and Will Smith YTMNDs unless they are making fun of them in a manner I feel is appropriate.
I tend to add an extra star for citing sources, classic style sites, uniqueness and sometimes even effort.
WALL OF TEXT
You just scrolled down a wall of text without reading it.
Good for you!
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This user is over 30-years-old. |
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This user joined YTMND in 2006. |
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This user does his/her best to vote fairly. |
