My normal process is to narrow the number I’m looking at by downvoting all the ones I really dislike/are spam entries – the ones I don’t even need to think about, then refresh the list and start up/down voting ones that are clearly one or the other, trying to pitch it so about half fall on either side. Probably a slight weight to downvoting ‘cause I’d rather give stronger support to the relatively few I actually want to win.

With that in mind, today’s ideas… the “downvoting the ones I would not even consider” step lasted much longer than normal, and then for most of the remainder I felt I had good reason to vote down. Either because the item described was not hardware, or it was mostly/entirely about porn, or it was written in that “lulz, i’mma be insulting” tone because apparently that’s what some people think is funny. Only left a handful that I felt were worth supporting.

Whilst I’m posting I’m also sort of annoyed that I forgot to make a picture submission. But if I had it would only have been near-identical to the ones we’ve got, so I guess I saved myself the effort. Wheeee.

Umm… I’m a bit unclear as to why you need to post a new thread about this when we have so many already.

I’m actually impressed 90% of the entries weren’t downvoted in the first hour like usual. I guess Hacker equipment doesn’t rev people up like Piercings do. Log in to see images!

Shii Posted:

I just wish people would even make a slight attempt to shop their images or make them different even slightly. Every one of the piercings save mine is untouched, straight from Google.

One of remaining pictures was shopped with two filters, that takes 20 seconds.

Shii Posted:

I just wish people would even make a slight attempt to shop their images or make them different even slightly. Every one of the piercings save mine is untouched, straight from Google.

I checked Google, only found one of them… clearly my Google-fu is lacking something today.

For images, in my mind the ranking is (in descending order of voteability) a well-done edited/self-created image, then something lazily copied that is actually very fitting, then something edited that isn’t really all that good, then the lazy copies that don’t even manage to be good.

Actually a terrible shop job probably ranks lowest of all – at least a ripped off stock photograph tend not to look like ****.

mterek Posted:

No, this was a tough image to scrounge up a picture for. You’ll have to dig pretty deep to find where this round’s submitters got their pictures.

Kidding? When I googled Finger Webbing Piercing I came up with 4 of these; turn your SafeSearch Off, if that makes a difference

EDIT: See for yourself.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=finger%20webbing%20piercing&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

If there’s a topic already to talk generally about Itembuildr (rather than the more specific subjects about everything getting downvoted, or such) then I can’t see it, so I’m going to put this here.

For the 4D Rubik’s Cube I was expecting to see the exploded-view of computer simulations of extra-dimensional Rubik’s Cubes, fresh off the first page of an Image Search (e.g. this or this), but either it wasn’t there or they’ve all been -5ed in the first hour. Either way, I’m glad I’m not seeing those, that would have been unoriginal and lame.

Edit: Also, I did not know that Item images could be animated. I am not sure I like that… all hopping around like that…

I’ve grown rather weary of all the meta-humor. It’s not cute anymore, it just looks like bum-kissing now.

I’ve got to say –

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This image has got to be the funniest image submitted for itembuildr in a long, long time. It deserves to win and should very well do so.

I agree it was damn amazing, though I also hate it because the pentagram/stone one in second placde was mine Log in to see images!