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Miscreant aka Heather Bloom is a 30.92 year old girl, has been a member since December 30, 2007, has scored 10164 submissions, giving an average score of 0.13.

Mar 18 '08 by Miscreant

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T Selection process confusion...

I've been a scoring member of Threadless since December 07 and am hooked. I'm here every day.
But... I'm confused by the selection process. There are five shirts that have been printed that I voted on.
One scored a 2.93 with 64 comments.
One scored a 2.71 with 107 comments.
One scored a 2.84 with 120 comments.
One scored a 2.59 with 39 comments
One scored a 2.12 with 25 comments.

What I want to know is how shirts with better scores and more comments submitted at the same time haven't seen print. For example:
3.24 with 129: http://www.threadless.com/submission/146245/Liberty

I swear... if Renaissance (3.42 with 130) http://www.threadless.com/submission/148894/Renaissance
doesn't get printed, I'm loosing ALL faith in Threadless.

Can anyone help me understand the selection process a little better? Thanks.
Heather

Torakamikaze on Mar 18 '08 at 2:09pm

it isnt all about the score, i guess, is the simple vague answer

iDanSimpson on Mar 18 '08 at 2:10pm

there are about one million factors going into the selection of t-shirts. the longer you stick around, the more you learn.

tracerbullet on Mar 18 '08 at 2:11pm

you know, being vague is almost as much fun as doing this other thing

iPear on Mar 18 '08 at 2:11pm

It's all about the S.

ISABOA on Mar 18 '08 at 2:11pm

deboraborialis on Mar 18 '08 at 2:13pm

Hopefully the ones you want will be printed. Sometimes it takes an age, but it's a great feeling you can can finally buy one you $5'd.

Miscreant on Mar 18 '08 at 2:13pm

I've found somewhere on the site an explanation that it's a combination of score, comments and "I'd buy" checks. I can only assume (since I can't see the info or stats) that a shirt with 130 comments is going to have more "I'd buy" checks than a shirt with 25.
So confused.

shakethesheets on Mar 18 '08 at 2:20pm

Wow, that's one of the lowest average scores I've seen.

Sometimes threadless just knows what will sell, and they're usually right.

Rachel Ray Gun on Mar 18 '08 at 2:22pm

a shirt with 130 comments is going to have more "I'd buy" checks than a shirt with 25.

not necessarily! keep in mind that bloggers and people that comment make up a relatively small percentage of the total number of voters.

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