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Firstly, please do not redirect to Ogreenworld's thread, I am asking a completely different question. How long does it take for the average meme to get confirmed? I assume a few months?

Usually less than twelve parsecs.

It honestly depends on two factors:
~How well the Entry was written. Does it have enough Proof to be a meme?
~How much interest the entry has. This is honestly a key factor as many completed entries sit in Limbo if they have no interest.

I don't think OGW's post said anything about time, but Chris' Menning's FAQ did.

How long will my entry take before being confirmed? Why isn’t it confirmed yet?
This is entirely dependent on the amount of editing required on the part of the meme entry editors and administrators. A meme entry is meant to be a factual, unbiased, and mostly objective explanation of a meme. Some meme entries can be confirmed within hours, while others may sit in Submissions for months. The burden of proof of memetic essence lies on the part of the meme submitter.

I'll leave this open in case another user can give a better answer, but I think you have it here. It depends upon what the staff is looking at in terms of memes, how well it's written, how well it's researched, how notable it is in actuality, etc.

Also, statistically speaking, I think outliers would make an "average" time to confirmation an inappropriate way of gauging central tendency here. Perhaps go for a median or mode time or something.

But that's a unit of measurement, is it not?

/takingitseriously

But that’s a unit of measurement, is it not?

I believe you meant distance, and not "measurement" as a generic term?
I mean, you can measure pretty much anything, but a parsec is a distance.

Well it kinda give a big spoiler to the ones that will be confirmed when the admins front page the hell out of them. We're supposed to research and document memes, not advertise them.

Wait a sec, I just didn't catch it the first time.

Yes, it's a distance, of course. You knew what I meant though, didn't you? As if I didn't know that a Parsec is a distance. Although, of course I said measurement because you measure distances wit-

You know what, why am I bothering? You could have simply just said "I think you mean distance" or ignored me!

This is now a measurement and distance thread it seems..