Peter^
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An interesting thread.....
I really don't care about flickr, but I do care about the pictures I post on RFF, simply because I value the expertise critique here much more than than on other sites.
But I've often wondered why some pictures attract many more clicks and comments than others. Sometimes I am quite surprised by which pictures get the clicks. Here a few factors I think I have identified:
1) Thumbnail factor. If a picture doesn't awake interest as a thumbnail, no-one will open it. Certain types of images with large, format-filling structures definately have an advantage over pictures with great detail.
2) Face factor. Anything that shows a person attracts more clicks.
3) Girl factor. Anything with a pretty girl or a nude gets a lot of clicks.
I'm sure there are a few others I haven't identified.
One thing that bothers me in RFF is that the older the picture, the more clicks get registered. I can't imagine anyone going through the pictures I posted several years ago, so I assume that there is something in the background which causes automatic clicks, possibly the stream at the top of the RFF home page which shows random selections from the gallery. There are rarely new comments on the old pictures, so I'm pretty sure these clicks are just some kind of noise. After a few months, the number of clicks on a picture seams meaningless.
I really don't care about flickr, but I do care about the pictures I post on RFF, simply because I value the expertise critique here much more than than on other sites.
But I've often wondered why some pictures attract many more clicks and comments than others. Sometimes I am quite surprised by which pictures get the clicks. Here a few factors I think I have identified:
1) Thumbnail factor. If a picture doesn't awake interest as a thumbnail, no-one will open it. Certain types of images with large, format-filling structures definately have an advantage over pictures with great detail.
2) Face factor. Anything that shows a person attracts more clicks.
3) Girl factor. Anything with a pretty girl or a nude gets a lot of clicks.
I'm sure there are a few others I haven't identified.
One thing that bothers me in RFF is that the older the picture, the more clicks get registered. I can't imagine anyone going through the pictures I posted several years ago, so I assume that there is something in the background which causes automatic clicks, possibly the stream at the top of the RFF home page which shows random selections from the gallery. There are rarely new comments on the old pictures, so I'm pretty sure these clicks are just some kind of noise. After a few months, the number of clicks on a picture seams meaningless.
