It’s just not that easy to write a post that a lot of people will find funny, enough that you can outdo the people trying to raise their own entries via collusion or something.

I carelessly entered four or five off the cuff things the first week, they were all voted down and I lost entries. then I entered one very careful suggestion that I thought about and fixed up nicely the next week, it went up to around +20 and stayed there, though it didnt make it into the final forum, but I got a few chocolate scoops out of it.