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spencekarl is a 30.65 year old boy, has been a member since March 2, 2006, has scored 11210 submissions, giving an average score of 1.37.

Jul 05 '06 by spencekarl

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[stats] Bottom 20 Scores for Winning Designs (Updates Suspended)

here are the 20 worst scores of all winning designs.

Neon Monkey - Threadless, Best T-shirts Ever

I SHOT J.R - Threadless, Best T-shirts Ever

Mona Prankster - Threadless, Best T-shirts Ever

Love Consume Die - Threadless, Best T-shirts Ever

god hates techno - Threadless, Best T-shirts Ever

chick love - Threadless, Best T-shirts Ever

Vampire Orthodontics - Threadless, Best T-shirts Ever

Everything is A-OK - Threadless, Best T-shirts Ever

less talk - Threadless, Best T-shirts Ever

my little pony - Threadless, Best T-shirts Ever

I Was A Teenage Monster! - Threadless, Best T-shirts Ever

big time player - Threadless, Best T-shirts Ever

Survival of the Shittest - Threadless, Best T-shirts Ever

mmm... oranges! - Threadless, Best T-shirts Ever

note: bear in mind the age of these designs, as well as the number of votes. scoring trends have certainly changed over time. and we all know that threadless can and will print whatever they want.

spencekarl on Jul 05 '06 at 2:02pm

i don't believe there's much to deduce from this list. but a few people asked for it, so here it is...i think a more interesting blog would be one that shows any possible trends over time in scores of printed shirts.

benny breaks on Jul 05 '06 at 2:03pm

spence, you get my next stp for this bro!!!

5115 on Jul 05 '06 at 2:04pm

Aweomse! I love your lists!!!!!!

benny breaks on Jul 05 '06 at 2:04pm

what does all's unfair say on the shirt, i've been trying to figure it out...

Ste7en on Jul 05 '06 at 2:04pm

some people might say it gives them hope, but it just makes me realize even more that if I dont make something they at threadless want, then the voting doesnt doesnt matter

Really like your lists though, this is something I wanted to see

Ste7en on Jul 05 '06 at 2:05pm

love and war benny

5115 on Jul 05 '06 at 2:05pm

I can believe that some of these wouldn't even make the 1.5 cut (if it existed then)! Lol!

poofie on Jul 05 '06 at 2:11pm

wow! even my only assy sub got a 1.21... why didn't i get printed?

ps--please don't answer that, i know why but i don't need other people to tell me.

spencekarl on Jul 05 '06 at 2:13pm

for me, this list means nothing. it's just kind of interesting to look at. that's all...like i said before, an overall trend of all prints would be more interesting to see.

spencekarl on Jul 05 '06 at 2:14pm

why didn't i get printed?

quite simply, because scores alone don't determine the print.

benny breaks on Jul 05 '06 at 2:15pm

thanks ste7en...been wondering that for forever!!!!!!!!!

yeah its just interesting. to me its like, how low will threadless go and also like spence said , 'they print what they want'.

juliagoolia on Jul 05 '06 at 2:16pm

You rock, Spence!! Thanks for all the stats!

steve_swartz on Jul 05 '06 at 2:16pm

i like a few of these. Talk, in particular, is one i find myself re-wearing often. that score seems unexplainably low.

Ste7en on Jul 05 '06 at 2:17pm

Personally this is my theory of threadless:

They print what gets enough "i'd buy its" to justify printing what they like. Because we'll never see the "i'd buy its" because it might encourage us to sell them ourselves, we'll never understand the printing trends.

juliagoolia on Jul 05 '06 at 2:17pm

Couldn't we get an idea of changes over time in scoring? I'd be willing to help you with it, since it might take some time.

steve_swartz on Jul 05 '06 at 2:17pm

and yeah, thanks! all the work you're doing around stats is fabulous.

i wish it were possible to save stored searches as tabs on the blog page: i find myself looking at these [stats] blogs frequently.

spencekarl on Jul 05 '06 at 2:19pm

steve, i wonder how the score might have changed if the submission wasn't flashing.

Ste7en on Jul 05 '06 at 2:20pm

I think that design is hideous

spencekarl on Jul 05 '06 at 2:20pm

well you could just click on the 'watch" button for the blogs anyways.

juliagoolia on Jul 05 '06 at 2:21pm

Yeah, I definitely like the new 'watch' function!

spencekarl on Jul 05 '06 at 2:21pm

julia, i want to make a graph with a trendline. i've started it already actually...i think it would be fun to look at.

spencekarl on Jul 05 '06 at 2:22pm

thanks for reading steve. you've got good stuff as well. actually, i have to catch up and read your latest

Ray. on Jul 05 '06 at 2:32pm

Wow, my little pony is one of my threadless faves, and it only got 2.0? That's fucking rad!

I'm proud to be on this list, there is some awesome stuff on there.

ekaj47 on Jul 05 '06 at 2:34pm

ahhh so there is hope for some of my crap scoring designs!!!!

chisafer on Jul 05 '06 at 2:35pm

I was wondering if you were going to make a stat list like this.

Thank you!

PS. all these are sooo cool.

speedyjvw on Jul 05 '06 at 2:36pm

this si the greatest list of stats ever
aka it gives me hope...

5 days later

stingerstyler on Jul 10 '06 at 5:43pm

SPENCE! I just stp'd you in that way we discussed earlier, so I hope that you got them. Please let me know, so we know whether that actually works or not!

spencekarl on Jul 10 '06 at 6:10pm

in that way we discussed earlier

huh?

spencekarl on Jul 10 '06 at 6:12pm

i did get points, so it must have worked.

oh wait, you mean where you use the stp right before you actually checkout? ok, i know what you're talking about.

spencekarl on Jul 10 '06 at 6:13pm

oh and thank you, by the way!

xiv on Jul 10 '06 at 6:13pm

i really like alot of those.

starr226 on Jul 10 '06 at 6:21pm

ditto xiv for me. these are always interesting and totally appreciated. nice work, spence.

stingerstyler on Jul 10 '06 at 6:23pm

Yeah I meant that - i ordered like 1 min before that post so it seems to work. so you can set up your shopping basket and click the STP link just before checking out, cool!

Keep up your excellent blogs dude! I'm out!

tesco on Jul 10 '06 at 6:35pm

this is my favorite spencekarl blog, so full of hope

spencekarl on Jul 10 '06 at 8:15pm

glad you dig it...i'm working on another that might provide similar hope.

iotadial on Jul 10 '06 at 8:17pm

oh god i was worried some of my designs were going to be in this blog, but luckily i have never been printed.

wait is this lucky or not?

2 days later

threadlessisbetterthanmyspace on Jul 13 '06 at 10:33am

wow. interesting of what the public thinks sometimes doesnt matter at all.

wolnutz on Jul 13 '06 at 11:12am

Man, I really want a Neon Monkey reprint.

5 days later

Bubblo on Jul 18 '06 at 2:22pm

I find your fondness for numbers and statistics quite captivating.

spencekarl on Jul 18 '06 at 4:11pm

well thanks for reading bubblo

camilabedeschi@gmail.com on Jul 19 '06 at 10:00am

nice list.

i think it's ok for they to really decide. it's their money anyway.

DeadPoetic_Underoath on Jul 19 '06 at 10:31am

'Talk" and "mmm... oranges!" are great!

ecky_ducky on Jul 20 '06 at 8:27am

What an excellent list. Just goes to show that sometimes Threadless knows better than the crazy nutso voters.

And Spencekarl, I've actually fallen in love with your profile pic.
Not in a weird way (....).
I think it's your hair. You have hot hair.
Okay, I'm leaving now...

spencekarl on Jul 20 '06 at 8:37am

You have hot hair.

that's funny...thanks for the love, ecky.

Monkey II on Jul 20 '06 at 9:34am

Mona's prankster must be the worst
and All's unfair is the best.

stickymike on Jul 20 '06 at 10:06am

its funny, because these are some of the best shirts. Aside from olympics, who's designs I really dont like

61 days later

kaloyster on Sep 20 '06 at 3:15am

Yo spence, you should update this list with my design!

kooky love on Sep 20 '06 at 5:01am

CONGRATS, kaloyster !

steven218 on Sep 20 '06 at 5:06am

i agree with stickymike. and of this week's prints, 'everything is a-ok' is the one i like best too

d3d on Sep 20 '06 at 5:11am

those all look like pretty fair scores to me

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[after coming back from a weeks vacation i found it difficult to get back into the threadless-groove. as a result, i don't know if i'll be updating or making lists again. i thank those who have enjoyed reading my stuff. maybe someday i'll be back.]

i make lists and compile stats in an effort to satisfy my incessant curiousity with threadless.

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