content: A detailed explanation of the mathematics of how voating a black man staring at fried chicken to the top of /v/all works Timing is everything in the old algorithm of reddit, and that's true here too. The less reaction time there is between the post to the upvote, the more likely it is to end up on the top. It also matters if people comment and/or there is some controversey. It matters if people are browsing /v/new to see what has been recently posted. It also matters the health of the community. If the milliondollar extreme community is healthy then we will be able to upvote more quickly cause there are more eyeballs on it. One of the biggest factors is if we can get to the front page. If we get even to the bottom of the front page of /v/all the probability of the fried chicken and the black man getting to the top increases by alot. Last time we fell just short of the front page, and no matter how we upvote it now it's impossible to get sam hyde the jewish shooter to the top. We have to try again at some other time. Oh and it it also matters how many other subreddits are trying it all at once. Currently ours is the only subreddit that tries it for humor alone.