It's essentially impossible for non chudrama posts to get to the top of the front page because the algorithm treats them as if they have THREE TIMES as many upkongs as they actually do. effortposts are given a FIVE TIMES multiplier. RIP rDrama

For context, if you use the progressive stack award, your posts are (temporarily) treated as if they have 2x their actual upkongs. This was thought of as so powerful by the jannies that it costs 1500 coins for just 6 hours. Now, if you make a post that gets 140 upkongs, and at the same time someone makes an effortpost that gets 30 upkongs, or chud ragebait that gets 50 upkongs, your post will actually be below them on the front page. In fact, since upkongs are basically normally distributed (getting 30 upkongs is pretty average, getting 90 makes yours one of the top posts of the day, getting 150 would make it the top post of the day), any sort of multiplier would change the content of the front page immensely, let alone a multiplier so large it treats mediocre effortposts and slightly above average chud ragebait as superior to the actual top post as chosen by users.

The fact that /h/chudrama is blocked by default is irrelevant, because most active users have it unblocked, so even if you block /h/chudrama every post you make is still effectively being deranked. And besides, there are plenty of people who want to read /h/chudrama and not have it be literally the only thing they see on the front page

!nonchuds