Perhaps there is an element of friends liking each other's posts more than othersbut not through any kind of conspiracy. If you like somebody's posts, you will probably add them as a friend, have their posts show up in your friend feed and then be more likely to notice and vote on their subsequent posts. I often click stuff I see in my friends page which has long since disappeared off the board.
As to spotting trends in front pages - I wouldn't bother. It's down to the whim of the mods and whatever made them laugh at any given time. The popular page may be scanned to see what the board has been liking recently, but the final say for frontpages are the individual mods and whatever tickles them. Maybe half the board might click for a particular post, but if it doesn;t make any of the mods laugh it's not going to get frontpaged.
Like Monkeon says down there, if any boarders seem to get more frontpages than others, then maybe they just have a sense of humour that makes one or more of the mods laugh.
(As to spotting trends in front pages - I wouldn't bother. It's down to the whim of the mods and whatever made them laugh at any given time. The popular page may be scanned to see what the board has been liking recently, but the final say for frontpages are the individual mods and whatever tickles them. Maybe half the board might click for a particular post, but if it doesn;t make any of the mods laugh it's not going to get frontpaged.
Like Monkeon says down there, if any boarders seem to get more frontpages than others, then maybe they just have a sense of humour that makes one or more of the mods laugh.
Mystery_Bob,
Fri 29 Oct 2010, 2:43,
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