Part of the problem is that the audience can be completely random – lucky timing can save an entry that otherwise would hit -5 quickly and give it legs to eventually do well, but there’s no way to tell when the best time to submit is.

I think it’s just something where you have to accept the good with the bad and roll with it; I was ForumBuilder Alpha last week, and this week I’ve already had three items knocked to -5, and expect another 2 of them to be dead before this time tomorrow. So either I’ve had mbumive brain damage sometime over the weekend, or sometimes my sense of humor clicks and sometimes it doesn’t. ::shrug::