I have been lucky enough to have had a few of my photographs on the Popular page and I was wondering what criteria has to be met for them to be featured? Is it number of comments, views, favourites or a combination of these? I'd love to know !
As far as I can tell, it's to do with getting more comments/ favs and more quickly than you personally would normally - i.e. someone who always gets a lot will need more to make the page than someone who doesn't get many comments. Does that make sense?
I notice that I seem to alternate between most photos making it and none at all making it, even with the same numbers of comments/ favs so maybe based on the previous week's average...
Basically it's not a specific number. There's a blog post that Ross wrote explaining it better than I can, not sure where to find it but possibly on a FAQ page??
Thanks for posting that link! It seems illogical based on my own photos - the really good or interesting ones never make the PP but a fairly standard shot of a flower or the local harbour seems to have a good chance of getting up there. Never worked out why. Ross's explanation made interesting reading!!
Ross's explanation makes little sense in practice it seems to me. It has something to do with comparisons against your own other ratings rather than against current ratings of others, for sure. But even then much seems to be at the whim of the naughty random monkeys. :)
This is one of life's mysteries- sort of like, "Which came first? The chicken or the egg?" and "If a tree falls in the forest and there's no one there, does it make a sound?" If you figure these out, along with quantum physics, then you'll know the answer. Of course, the easier route is "the magic monkeys pick them".
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I notice that I seem to alternate between most photos making it and none at all making it, even with the same numbers of comments/ favs so maybe based on the previous week's average...
Basically it's not a specific number. There's a blog post that Ross wrote explaining it better than I can, not sure where to find it but possibly on a FAQ page??
http://365project.org/blog/behind-the-scenes-of-365-project