I can’t answer the OP’s questions, so I’ll answer the other ones.

Balloon Posted:

While were on the subject how high does your score have to be to get accepted? Or if it’s just the highest voted ones what’s the ballpark average score?

It’s always the highest voted ones; if I had more time I’d go through and sum up what was gotten in previous forums. General benchmark seems to be if it’s on the first three pages of “Voted By Score”, it’ll get in.

As for average score – really hard to say. Some weeks everyone likes everything; some weeks, people are generally ‘meh’. I’d say that anything with more than 20 votes is going to get in, and sometimes 10-15 will as well.