Best Meme of The Decade

@rrhoover https://imgur.com/qw6OwE5

@raulrocawabe It's boomer proof ;-)

@armand I absolutely loved it. Sometimes the choice is really hard. Question: are memes in batches randomized?

@aleksandr_betra Sorry for the late responce, I was in China for vacay! Yes, it was randomized with slight edits. I wish I took more time to create a better rank-base grouping system. I knew this wasn't perfect but aim to solve it in the wild card/round 2 voting. By the way, there was an uptick in traffic and ProductHunt engagement 9 days ago.. do you remember how you heard of this hunt?

@armand my colleague shared this hunt with me. I also saw it in a newsletter from product hunt.

@aleksandr_betra Awesome! Thanks for letting me know

@michaelwolf This probably increases engagement, especially if people would come to only vote for one meme and then leave

@dave_stewart exactly. But, I'm guessing, that it's done that way so as to avoid people voting for pepe — which is the obvious breadwinner of the decade (by use/traffic). But the politicization of pepe will probably leave the meme omitted, and thus skewing and weakening what could otherwise have been a great social experiment (best meme of decade)

@newalexandria yeah, I like the bias-neutral approach... but still badly-executed. It's a shame, as it is a fun idea, but I just closed the browser tab as it wasn't engaging-enough to warrant me wasting 20 minutes of my time... which is ironic considering the subject matter!

@dave_stewart @newalexandria I'll review the raw data and make corrections to give skewed memes a chance. Split voting was deff an issue.

@newalexandria @armand I don't mind the "hot or not" idea, but it was supremely slow and lacked context. I simply didn't know what most of the memes put in front of me were – which is inherent to its impact and thus the point of the exercise. How am I supposed to vote on two images that are completely devoid of meaning for me? A critical "pass" option was a) missing and b) would have given you valuable insight – right now you have no idea what your percentage of false positives is (it could be up to 100%) for some. Definitely allow people to pass, but also consider supplying an element of context; perhaps a description, news stories or links. This could actually improve people's appreciation of memes in general; I imagine there is a large swathe of your audience who love a good meme, but don't spend enough time on Reddit to understand most of them. One last point; when I started the app, I didn't really have an idea of how long it was going to be, so I quit immediately. I was not willing to make an indefinite investment of time for someone's pet project. If it was "5 rounds of 10 memes" or "political memes" followed by "cultural memes" or anything else that gave me an idea of my investment before making it, that would have given me some motivation to continue, but as it was... I reached for the tab close button pretty quickly.

@armand @dave_stewart you’re completely missing the actual criticism / feedback I am saying: by enabling voting, you are creating a social form of media that delivers consensus; and by filtering or weighting certain memes, you are performing censorship of the discourse. That is either a social fraud, or interest-group specific. Sorry. Fix or fail. Ain’t no one got time for another Reddit.

@harowitzblack https://imgur.com/mdV7fsP