Friday Q&A

Questionable Edification

Greetings, crickets and trolls. Welcome to another edition of the Friday Q&A. This regular feature deals with issues facing Fark's Photoshop community. Thanks for joining me once again. I'm glad you're here! It's important to get your recommended daily allowance of venomous bile.

Q: Do you have any advice on how to get more votes?

A: The resurgence of an old PSAEF discussion has prompted me to share some observations I've made concerning Fark's inscrutable voting process. It may appear outwardly chaotic, but an undertow of very predictable patterns can be found just below the surface. Master them, and you're well on your way towards still being vastly inferior to me.

Q: What do the voters like?

A: Above all, they like to laugh. It's a fact that the majority of Farkers live woefully tedious lives. They aren't perusing these threads as part of an art history lesson, they just want a brief diversion from the horrors of daily life. This does a lot to explain why less complicated images frequently win. More often than not, voters will reward humor over technical skills.

Q: What do the voters dislike?

A: I'm afraid I simply haven't experienced enough failure to know what constitutes it. I tried my luck with some hastily thrown together entries, to no avail. Each craptacular image received hundreds of votes. Damn my considerable talent! You'll just have to look towards your own body of work to determine what the voters don't like.

That's all for this time, gentle reader. Thanks again for stopping by. I've long considered Fark voters relatively easy to please. Good concepts will always be rewarded, as will pop culture references and tasteless humor. Fine art is also appreciated, but has to be technically impressive to stand out from a field of dick and fart jokes.

Stay tuned for more conceptual advice from the Doctor!