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Don't take it personally, I think upvotes are a lot more random. Every 6 months or so I repost (on another site) bottle rocket under the ice: https://i.imgur.

by BMc2020 4y ago

Don't take it personally, I think upvotes are a lot more random. Every 6 months or so I repost (on another site) bottle rocket under the ice: https://i.imgur.com/IEW6QqB.gifv https://i.imgur.com/IEW6QqB.gifv Sometimes it's huge, somtimes it sinks. No pattern to it.

account42 4y ago
Interesting. What kind of patterns have you tried to look for? One source of "randomness" in user voting on time-sensitive sites (as opposed to e.g. a forum where you could log in once per day and read up on everything) is that the oline audience changes troughout the day as different timezones are at work / asleep / etc. This is both a regional change as well as an occupational/age change.
- BMc2020 4y ago
  I discovered letting Europe see it a few hours before the USA woke up was the best time of day. A post needed a few upvotes before the 'bury brigade' saw it.
CoastalCoder 4y ago
Well this is my first time seeing that video, and I'm delighted! I wonder if there's anywhere in the contiguous U.S. where such fireworks are still legal. I hope so.
- dementis 4y ago
  There are many states where Bottle Rockets are still legal; they are generally states that are not considered a Nanny state or do not have high risk of fires. Some states like Texas banned them because too many houses had wooden shingled roofs decades ago that tended to catch fire because of a bottle rocket landing on them. And laws are much harder to get rid of once they have been enacted so despite very few homes actually still having a wooden shingled roof the ban on bottle rockets still stands. https://www.rd.com/article/states-where-fireworks-are-legal/ https://www.rd.com/article/states-where-fireworks-are-legal/ A lot of places(From the state level down to individual city level) use the annual Consumer Product Safety Commission report on Firework injuries to determine what needs to be banned for so called "public safety" reasons. Which is why you have places that have even banned Sparklers. https://www.cpsc.gov/Research--Statistics/Fuel-Lighters-and-Fireworks1 https://www.cpsc.gov/Research--Statistics/Fuel-Lighters-and-...
- BMc2020 4y ago
  Glad you liked it. I think this 8 second clip of a guy saying 'I'm lost' is hysterical, never gets an upvote though. Maybe you have to be English to get it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieWm9T_GgSA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieWm9T_GgSA

account42 4y ago

Interesting. What kind of patterns have you tried to look for? One source of "randomness" in user voting on time-sensitive sites (as opposed to e.g. a forum where you could log in once per day and read up on everything) is that the oline audience changes troughout the day as different timezones are at work / asleep / etc. This is both a regional change as well as an occupational/age change.

BMc2020 4y ago
I discovered letting Europe see it a few hours before the USA woke up was the best time of day. A post needed a few upvotes before the 'bury brigade' saw it.

CoastalCoder 4y ago

Well this is my first time seeing that video, and I'm delighted! I wonder if there's anywhere in the contiguous U.S. where such fireworks are still legal. I hope so.

dementis 4y ago
There are many states where Bottle Rockets are still legal; they are generally states that are not considered a Nanny state or do not have high risk of fires. Some states like Texas banned them because too many houses had wooden shingled roofs decades ago that tended to catch fire because of a bottle rocket landing on them. And laws are much harder to get rid of once they have been enacted so despite very few homes actually still having a wooden shingled roof the ban on bottle rockets still stands. https://www.rd.com/article/states-where-fireworks-are-legal/ https://www.rd.com/article/states-where-fireworks-are-legal/ A lot of places(From the state level down to individual city level) use the annual Consumer Product Safety Commission report on Firework injuries to determine what needs to be banned for so called "public safety" reasons. Which is why you have places that have even banned Sparklers. https://www.cpsc.gov/Research--Statistics/Fuel-Lighters-and-Fireworks1 https://www.cpsc.gov/Research--Statistics/Fuel-Lighters-and-...
BMc2020 4y ago
Glad you liked it. I think this 8 second clip of a guy saying 'I'm lost' is hysterical, never gets an upvote though. Maybe you have to be English to get it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieWm9T_GgSA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieWm9T_GgSA