Oh and regarding moving it to the 7th, part of that is that it does allow us to review the nominees ahead of time but it also gives the audience more time to engage with entries that were uploaded late in the month. Art and audio for example need to achieve a minimum vote threshold to be considered, so something uploaded on the last day of the month might not make that cut unless you give it an extra week to get there. It also avoids a situation we've had in the past where something uploaded on the last day of January ends up as a nominee in March.
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The lists are generated by an algorithm, but it definitely takes into account stuff Tom has personally touched through the month so it's not all just titties and furries and stuff like that, so you get the same kind of curation you see from games and movies to a degree, while also being heavily based on the overall community.
We also try to shift things down the list when an author already has one or more pieces up higher so no single user dominates the list. Usually their most popular (determined by multiple metrics, not just scores) tuff is at the top.
Hot take of the day!
Just because you get front paged or featured shouldnt mean that you get an automatic participation award in the monthly voting
TomFulp
The Art and Audio nominee cutoff is mostly algorithmic but they do come from a pool of Featured entries, which also makes it curated. If the Featured barrier wasn't there, the art nominees might be largely sexy stuff and the audio nominees might be GD-favored-stuff. It's not perfect but it's trying to lean towards results that won't make us give up on doing this.
CrimsonKero
I get where you're going with this,
My point is that even within the "Featured" pool, the Art Portal selections seem to be re-curated. Most of the entries highlighted in Cases 1-4 scored fairly high, and seem to be very well-received by a large amount of users. I find it hard to believe an algorithm did that.