I wish there was an easy way to vote for certain webcomics and keep track of favorites so you could share with your friends.
Basically, I wish there was some sort of meta-comic website where you could view a whole bunch of comics, rate individual daily comics, rate webcomics, etc. You can then save certain ones as favorites and share them easily, and have a recommendation engine suggest new comics you'd like.
The problem is that sites like this already exist. The recommendation engine may not be there, but the voting certainly exists.
The issue is that there's more than one such site (although you can probably get away with looking only at the most popular one), and the rankings depend a lot on how much webcomic creators ask their audience to vote on their comic. The votey from SMBC was originally a bonus panel that was added only if Zach got enough votes on a top 100 webcomics site for that day. Eventually he decided to do them every day and stopped pushing people to vote as much.
The end result is that if you go to the first Google result, SMBC is ranked #390 with 28 votes this month. The webcomic audience (meaning the audience that cares about a webcomic enough to vote for it) is small enough that the creator recommendation bump can bring a comic up by a lot. Plus there were some comics that actually locked content until enough people voted for it that day, although I'm pretty sure those comics get blacklisted pretty fast.
For comics with Patreons, seeing the Patreon pledge amount is usually a good sign of how much people like that comic, since it's basically impossible to convince someone who's only ambivalent about your work to pay you money every month. Unfortunately, Patreon's search isn't very good.
