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Ping your pics!!!
Ok this could get ugly lol I have a feeling some people are setting up their computers to ping their pictures to get the hits up So they look more important... Anyone else ever thing about this??? Dec 03 05 10:39 am Link I guess I'm just a dumb blonde because I don't understand what you mean by this...but if it's what I think...that people are fraudulantly getting "hits" on their photos, my thoughts are that it is pretty sad that someone feels they need to do this. I mean, everyone's work should be able to stand on it's own. I don't look at a photo and think that a person is better or worse for how many hits they have. I actually think that if a person does that, it is quite pathetic...and we should feel sorry for them... Dec 03 05 10:52 am Link I'm not sure if it is possible to simply ping your pics... It's a little more complicated I guess... Dec 03 05 10:57 am Link DragonFlyImage wrote: Personally, I don't care. In the long run, the work speaks for itself..... unless there is nudity, that always gets a lot more views for some reason.. hmmmm ... wonder if there is some kind of pattern there..... Dec 03 05 11:05 am Link Jeff Fiore wrote: Yea I wonder if there is a pattern there lol Dec 03 05 11:06 am Link Well after pinging myself for 30 odd times my arm fell alseep and I had to stop. bs Dec 03 05 11:31 am Link DragonFlyImage wrote: But I have to agree. Models get way more PINGS. I saw one photographer who was on this forum like 1 month and had like 200 hits on each photo. Not many comments but lots and lots of hits. Which I think were his own doing. IMHO. But I have been wrong before. bs Dec 03 05 11:33 am Link I have never heard of this. I visit several different forums and some will actually state something like...this photo has been viewed 136 (excluding you). Dec 03 05 12:00 pm Link Is "ping" yourself short for wiping yourself? If that's the case, I hope everyone does. Dec 03 05 12:18 pm Link DragonFlyImage wrote: I doubt it, seriously. Hits are not quiet like comments. I don't care about the number of hits a photo has, it's the context of the comments and the image that talk to me. Dec 03 05 12:28 pm Link Many of the photographers that are actually the very best in the real world are not that popular when they come on the internet. And a few are. Internet popularity doesn't have much correlation to success (postive or negative). Trying to artificially pump up your internet popularity would be pretty pointless. Dec 03 05 12:30 pm Link Sounds to me like it's more trouble than it's worth, that is if extra hits are worth anything............... Dec 03 05 01:19 pm Link Toria wrote: I didn't know what it was either at first glance and my hair is almost jet black. Although I'd hate to consider the implications if JBPhoto is right: people who want others wiping them but have to resort to fake wiping... a very unsettling thought. Dec 03 05 03:50 pm Link Jay Bowman wrote: The end results would be an un-natural accumulation or excess of excrement in ones probile, er profile. Dec 03 05 04:01 pm Link Check the +18 box on regular pictures and see if your count goes up for each picture, people seem to do that and the curious onlooker views it to find the nudity... furthering my thought that a lot of traffic is browsing for high res. nudes rather than talent. Dec 03 05 04:16 pm Link Scott wrote: I think that works. I have one photo marked 18+ where the model is wearing a wet t-shirt to expose a glimps of nipple and it's gotten more hits then any other image in my portfolio. Sheesh, some members...... Dec 03 05 04:20 pm Link DragonFlyImage wrote: That is not new. It's part of the bullshit game on the Internet. Dec 03 05 04:27 pm Link bobby sargent wrote: LOL, yeah my hand went numb :-) Dec 03 05 11:26 pm Link DragonFlyImage wrote: what would be the purpose be?!?...is there a special secret prize available i am not aware of?!?...i have posted photos of celebrities, nudes, and lesbians but the pix with the most hits/views is the photo of me. Dec 04 05 09:03 am Link First one to reach 1,000,000,000 wins a free membership! Dec 04 05 09:10 am Link I thought I was pinging my photos, but they turned out to be someone elses...dah! Not really, I'm to busy looking at everyone elses nudes to do any pinging. And I know I don't have any in my port. Dec 04 05 09:10 am Link Brian Diaz wrote: waits for the tsunami of *ping my picture* threads Dec 04 05 09:17 am Link some people have way too much time on their hands  Dec 04 05 08:42 pm Link DragonFlyImage wrote: Well, you can actually get hits on your photos by looking at your own portfolio, even while on your screen name. You dont have to do it from another account. I found that out by accident when I knew a photo only had 2 views and then I went to make sure it looked ok and noticed it was at 3 views after that. My ego is not so huge that I have to have the most views on my photographs. I actually use it as a gauge to see which ones I should keep and let go.So I don`t tamper. Dec 04 05 09:08 pm Link Glamour Boulevard wrote: I agree. I would actually prefer that visits to our own photos did not count as a view, just so we could read the comments left on them without skewing the view count. Dec 04 05 09:17 pm Link Brian Diaz wrote: Therein lies a technical problem. You can't read the comments people leave without adding to the view count. Dec 04 05 09:25 pm Link Far West Imaging wrote: Me too. I'd rather be learning to take better shots by viewing those of OTHERS. Dec 05 05 10:34 am Link jac3950 wrote: Not to mention you can't check how horribly MM has "jaypegged" your picture without racking up views (especially if you're a little OCD, and check it several times to be sure that the compression loss isn't gonna drive you crazy - but then again, maybe it's too late by then LOL). Took me a minute to figure out why a pic I just added had 4 views... Dec 05 05 05:00 pm Link I am assuming that most people on this site look at an image and decide for themselves whether they like it or not. If I see a crappy image that has 500 hits, it will not make me like it more.....and at the same time if I see an fantastic image with 5 hits I am not going to say "hmmmmm, I really like this but it only has 5 hits......I must be wrong". Dec 05 05 05:07 pm Link Warhol wrote: My galleries on Pbase, it does not count the viewings I make on my own photos (unless I log out). But I did post in the forums introducinga new gallery. And the thread viewings where a LOT higher than my gallery viewing which confused me. I was wondering why so many people weren't interested in looking at the gallery...when it turned out, the thread was not getting many hits...it was ME looking at it each time. ha! Dec 05 05 05:29 pm Link |
