Friday Q&A

Questionable Ignoration

Greetings, crickets and trolls. Welcome back to another edition of the Friday Q&A. It's been a week or so since the powers that be at Fark ruined the voting system (or made it better, depending on which interpretation of reality you choose). Despite a massive outpouring of dissatisfaction, the much-ballyhooed changes remain in place.

Q: How has the voting system been damaged?

A: The new option to vote an entry either "best" or "funniest" has split the vote, leaving much lower totals than I would have expected in a number of contests. I suspect that just like we had people who thought it proper to only vote for one entry, we now apparently have at least a few purists who won't choose an entry as both best and funniest.

Q: Why didn't they roll back these horrible changes?

A: Fark does not have a long history of doing that. The old axiom is "you'll get over it," not "let me accommodate your every whim". I suspect the change in voting systems is linked to another recently added feature, which allows comment voting in non-PS threads. You can apparently vote for any post as either "smart" or "funny", an idea that I find to be neither. Is Reddit stealing enough of Fark's audience that Drew feels the need to emulate that den of meme-spouting pseudo intellectualism?

Q: What has been management's response to these criticisms?

A: Deafening silence. They know damn well we hate the new voting system. It's completely useless inside the Photoshop contests and out. We're apparently supposed to wait and see how the changes pan out. You know, because when someone capriciously ruins something I enjoy, my immediate reaction is to do nothing and hope the situation turns out for the best.

That's all for this time, gentle reader. Thanks for stopping by. If, on the astronomically small chance that a Fark mоdmin happens upon this post, please just hear me out. The new system is shit. It unnecessarily messes with the flow of discussion outside the contests (not every thread is about being smart or funny) and is about as popular amongst Photoshoppers as unsliceable bread that gives you herpes. Useless gimmicks like this won't drive traffic to the site. Look at the comment voting in the average discussion thread, barely anyone even uses it. While I respect the intent to better our community, I sorely disagree with the course of action it has taken.

Stay tuned for more desperate pleas from the Doctor!