11-23-11 – Triptych Portraits

Holy shit, really aspidites? Is it one of those bandwidth things where you have to pony up the $$ to get them back, or just…gone?

I has a sad.

CISS, Orionid–I don’t think we have as great a number of viewers as the IP’s suggest. I know about 1 of 3 times, I have to reset my IP due to my paid-for pilfering of my neighbor’s wi-fi. Mobile devices and other mediums, etc. have their needs.

This week, my Shifty Sal shot got some 2758 views (the small version),

I know I’m back viewing the page at least 10 times over the duration of the contest, esp. during the beginning–having a shot posted early automatically gains views, as the first page is the one that comes up for anyone, from any computer. On posting night, I’m at work, at various computers at break, logging in, checking things out. There’s at least 4-5 different IPs just for me (as our work network is set up at least).

The Shifty Sal shot got some 24 views (the large version). 24 vs 2758

If there were 2700 individuals, I’m pretty sure more than 1 of 100 would have clicked through, even at #9.

But besides all of that, remember it was a holiday weekend, things do slow down this time of year, it was a challenging theme at a time when a lot of people wouldn’t have time to put something together.

It’s all good. I pro-actively pimped farktography out at the photowalk today.

//made me feel dirty, like a Christian Scientist, but: Oh, well. Whatever.

😛

CISS, Orionid–I don’t think we have as great a number of viewers as the IP’s suggest.

rav, resetting your IP from the neighbor’s WiFi won’t affect the IP that shows up in the logs unless the WiFi itself gets a new IP from the neighbor’s ISP (cable or DSL company). Same thing applies to using multiple computers while at work (depending on the size of the company). Most local networks use a protocol called NAT (Network Address Translation), which means there’s a difference between the internal or LAN address (which is usually a non-public IP like 192.168.*.*) and the external or WAN address of which the ISP doles out only one per customer (in general, for consumer accounts at least).

This will actually serve to reduce the number of unique IP addresses. For example, I’ve got several computers and phones/tablets on my home router and they’ll ALL show up with the same IP address in server logs because they all come from the same WAN address.

That’s not to say there aren’t multiple IPs per user. Using the cell network instead of wireless on a phone or work vs home computers are at least two possibilities. However, since we’re also hiding multiple unique people within the same household/network, I’m guessing the offset due to multiple IPs per person is significantly small.

If there were 2700 individuals, I’m pretty sure more than 1 of 100 would have clicked through, even at #9.

My experience shows otherwise. Even my most popular entries (including the eclipse shot that won twice) have extremely low “view large” counts. If you consider that it takes more effort to click through and view large than it does to vote and we can barely get people to vote, then it starts to make sense, I think.

Congrats kashari I’m going to post your winning photo on the Farktography G+ page (attributed of course). Please let me know if that’s not ok.

That would be cool, thanks Kestrana! (I don’t have a G+ account but I have looked at the link when you’ve posted it before.)

gambitsgirl Thanks & I’m glad you’re back in the game, love your pics & sense of humor!

(wth? now I don’t see Kes’s msg I was replying to & I think a couple others are gone?)

I don’t think click throughs have anything to do with votes.

My Crown Point #1 photo has 15 views on Flickr and not all of them came from Fark.
Orionid‘s NSFW triptych has like 800 views and was not remotely near the top 10.

I myself rarely click through to larger and whether or not I do click through has little bearing on whether or not I vote for the entry.

As for how to get more people to vote, it goes hand in hand with participation. We have a healthy group of regulars that participate but the more people playing the more votes we get. The casual viewer has no incentive to vote despite how easy it is. That is really one of the only perks to having a prize for the winner, would be more of an incentive for casual viewers to participate and vote.

I rarely click thru either & stopped posting bigger images except for a couple rare times.

While I was just a ‘viewer’, I sometimes would quit voting mid-thread or wouldn’t vote at all because there were too many images to go through. Has the thought of cutting it down to two entries ever been discussed?

I had the same “meh, tl:dr syndrome when I was “just a viewer” as well. How about an alternatively formatted Fark page that uses more of an overview (I don’t want to say thumbnails as they seem too small, but maybe a little larger than bibliostats images)?