Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24284854-20140616032304/@comment-24145588-20140616170715

My Plant Island made it into the top 1000 with just about 40 likes, and into the top 500 at about 70. That was about 5 or 6 months ago. Currently at 162 likes, still in the top 500, and really don't expect to get any higher than that.

I've mentioned this before in related threads, but I am pretty certain that visiting "random" islands is not at all well-randomized. I'll get a batch of 4 or 5 likes in a couple of days, then none for  a couple weeks, and then another small batch; if it was actually random, there wouldn't be a consistent pattern like that.

I think I remember that Red Barn is also playing on Windows, but Jennie doesn't mention which platform she's on. On mobile devices, it'll be very different -- you can use a "friends" list there and get the same hundreds of people stuffing the ballot box for you every day, so the numbers will be much higher, and have little to do with the quality of your islands.