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03/23/2006 11:02:36 AM · #1 |
As some of you know, I had a link to one of my DPC images - "Flight" - posted (unknown to me) to a site that until yesterday I had never heard of - fark.com. It posted on 3/22/06 at 2:00am
"So what?" you may be asking. Well, here is what it did to me. Some of you may have noticed a slowdown during much of yesterday (3/22/06) on the DPC site. This may explain the reason. I ended the day previous to being "farked" with something around 30,000 views of the "Flight" image (a number that I was very pleased with btw). Well, as of this morning that image has been viewed an astounding 124,000+ times!!!
That means that the farking caused nearly 100,000 views in around 24-30hrs. I also got 14 print sales during that time.
A really farked-up day indeed!
-Bill |
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03/23/2006 11:07:31 AM · #2 |
Since being "farked" has resulted in such a success for jemison, can we expect that people will begin "farking" themselves? I mean this seriously. If one photo can grind DPC to a near halt, what can be done to prevent future incidents? Maybe I'm jumping the gun here, but I'd hate to have the members of this site inconvenienced on a regular basis.
(And congrats on your sales, jemison....well deserved!) |
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03/23/2006 11:07:42 AM · #3 |
fark? whats that?
Grats on the sales Jemison |
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03/23/2006 11:11:40 AM · #4 |
From the site "only apporximately 5% of submissions make it on the FARK homepage."
The chances of this becoming an epidemic are slim.
Nonetheless, if it does pose to be a problem in the future I am sure FARK can and would agree to filter any submissions that have the dpchallenge domain in the url.
BTW, if you haven't been to fark.com where have you been?
More importantly check it out - may not be work safe all of the time. |
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03/23/2006 11:21:14 AM · #5 |
This is by FAR the most-viewed image on DPC, at nearly 205,000 views:
Jemison's is in second now.
Can we assume rackrat's shot also got externally linked at some point to generate that many views? What, if anything, does this teach us about the "validity" of the "most-viewed" statistic? I'd always naively assumed this was "viewed from within DPC". Do we even care? probably not...
Robt.
Message edited by author 2006-03-23 11:43:19.
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03/23/2006 11:28:44 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
This is by FAR the most-viewed image on DPC, at nearly 205,000 views:
Jemison's is in second now.
Can we assume rugrat's shot also got externally linked at some point to generate that many views? What, if anything, does this teach us about the "validity" of the "most-viewed" statistic? I'd always naively assumed this was "viewed from within DPC". Do we even care? probably not...
Robt. |
I've seen Rackat's (who might not enjoy being called rugrat) shot on stumbleupon but that shot has also had three and a half years to accumulate views and is a favorite of many DPCers, especially the original ones, so it's been linked in the forums a million times, too. It's also got the most site favorites so I'd think there's a decent chance that it has just slowly accumulated the mass of views, rather than being involved in something like a fark linking. |
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03/23/2006 11:32:10 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
This is by FAR the most-viewed image on DPC, at nearly 205,000 views:
Jemison's is in second now.
Can we assume rugrat's shot also got externally linked at some point to generate that many views? What, if anything, does this teach us about the "validity" of the "most-viewed" statistic? I'd always naively assumed this was "viewed from within DPC". Do we even care? probably not...
Robt. |
I care. And I feel that my view score is tainted by this. Although I never really assumed that the view count was from just DPC members, I had felt that it was a fair measure of the "allure" of a particular image. This farking thing has skewed things beyond reason, imo.
-Bill |
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03/23/2006 11:38:59 AM · #8 |
my most-hated shot EVER. :P |
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03/23/2006 11:42:20 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by mk:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
This is by FAR the most-viewed image on DPC, at nearly 205,000 views:
Jemison's is in second now.
Can we assume rugrat's shot also got externally linked at some point to generate that many views? What, if anything, does this teach us about the "validity" of the "most-viewed" statistic? I'd always naively assumed this was "viewed from within DPC". Do we even care? probably not...
Robt. |
I've seen Rackat's (who might not enjoy being called rugrat) shot on stumbleupon but that shot has also had three and a half years to accumulate views and is a favorite of many DPCers, especially the original ones, so it's been linked in the forums a million times, too. It's also got the most site favorites so I'd think there's a decent chance that it has just slowly accumulated the mass of views, rather than being involved in something like a fark linking. |
OOPS. Sorry, rack :-) And yeah, MK, I believe you're correct; my question was more of a rhetorical nature. As Jemison has pointed out (ty jemi) this attack-of-the-farkers has "tainted" the statistics on this image. If it happens often enough, it will taint-by-association any extremely-high view-count.
I don't know if we can do anythign about it, though, and I don't know if we really care. I certainly don't, or not very much anyway...
Robt.
Message edited by author 2006-03-23 11:43:01.
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03/23/2006 11:44:50 AM · #10 |
During a couple of days, the flight image will have had more views than the #1 ranked one. :-)
Congrats on getting farked! :)
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03/23/2006 11:49:57 AM · #11 |
Originally posted by muckpond:
my most-hated shot EVER. :P |
go eat your preserves |
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03/23/2006 12:00:33 PM · #12 |
Must say, it farked the site pretty good, for quite a while... LOL... thank goodness Langdon was on his toes and was able to optimize the site to handle that hardcore farking.
BTW, congrats on the print sales. That farkin' rocks :-)
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03/23/2006 12:06:53 PM · #13 |
| some of the photoshop efforts are funny though... I like the sponge bob square pants one! |
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03/23/2006 01:24:21 PM · #14 |
This might explained the 800+ guest online.
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03/23/2006 02:12:07 PM · #15 |
Fark, eh? Any bets on the number of views on Nudes increasing dramatically over the next few days?
Message edited by author 2006-03-23 14:12:20. |
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03/23/2006 02:13:44 PM · #16 |
you've got a comment on there from someone wanting the image!
rad! |
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03/23/2006 02:50:55 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
This is by FAR the most-viewed image on DPC, at nearly 205,000 views:
Jemison's is in second now.
Can we assume rackrat's shot also got externally linked at some point to generate that many views? What, if anything, does this teach us about the "validity" of the "most-viewed" statistic? I'd always naively assumed this was "viewed from within DPC". Do we even care? probably not...
Robt. |
These are not "external links" in the sense you might think. This is simply someone posting the link to the page where the photo is visible. The shot is still viewed from "within" DPC. DPC doesn't allow or support external deep linking. All of these views were done with the "dpchallenge" logo and banner showing across the top of the page just like we always see. In other words, it's totally legitimate, even if it was generated by a link on another page.
Edit -- stoopid typos
Message edited by author 2006-03-23 14:51:44. |
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03/23/2006 03:22:03 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by nards656:
These are not "external links" in the sense you might think. This is simply someone posting the link to the page where the photo is visible. The shot is still viewed from "within" DPC. DPC doesn't allow or support external deep linking. All of these views were done with the "dpchallenge" logo and banner showing across the top of the page just like we always see. In other words, it's totally legitimate, even if it was generated by a link on another page. |
No, I understand that. My terminology just wasn't very good. I meant to say I'd naively assumed the views came from members of the DPC community. The image was, of course, externally linked. But the views, of course, came from within the DPC site, as this is where the link brought people. And my naivete was assuming only DPCers view "our" images, which is silly. Anyone can stumble upon the site, or be directed here, and view images; for example, I have sent the URL of my portfolio to my sister and certainly a number of my views are generated by her checking in from time to time to see what I'm up to, and she's not a DPCer, so...
This is why I conceded "there's nothing to be done about it". The scale of this was just so awesome, LOL.
From D&L's POV, it has to be a real bonus; those massive numbers of hits generate good income from their ad-hosting I'd imagine. In fact, if they were smart they'd try to get us FARKED more often, I bet :-)
R.
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03/23/2006 03:30:49 PM · #19 |
as long as it doesn't fark up the site again.
maybe i should go post some of my own shots on there....lol. |
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03/23/2006 03:32:39 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by muckpond:
as long as it doesn't fark up the site again.
maybe i should go post some of my own shots on there....lol. |
I had the same farkin' thought ;-)
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03/23/2006 03:35:27 PM · #21 |
I think its a good Farkin Idea!
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03/23/2006 03:41:00 PM · #22 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by nards656:
These are not "external links" in the sense you might think. This is simply someone posting the link to the page where the photo is visible. The shot is still viewed from "within" DPC. DPC doesn't allow or support external deep linking. All of these views were done with the "dpchallenge" logo and banner showing across the top of the page just like we always see. In other words, it's totally legitimate, even if it was generated by a link on another page. |
No, I understand that. My terminology just wasn't very good. I meant to say I'd naively assumed the views came from members of the DPC community. The image was, of course, externally linked. But the views, of course, came from within the DPC site, as this is where the link brought people. And my naivete was assuming only DPCers view "our" images, which is silly. Anyone can stumble upon the site, or be directed here, and view images; for example, I have sent the URL of my portfolio to my sister and certainly a number of my views are generated by her checking in from time to time to see what I'm up to, and she's not a DPCer, so...
This is why I conceded "there's nothing to be done about it". The scale of this was just so awesome, LOL.
From D&L's POV, it has to be a real bonus; those massive numbers of hits generate good income from their ad-hosting I'd imagine. In fact, if they were smart they'd try to get us FARKED more often, I bet :-)
R. |
Sorry, didn't mean to sound like a know it all. :) |
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03/23/2006 03:43:44 PM · #23 |
Originally posted by nards656:
Sorry, didn't mean to sound like a know it all. :) |
Dat's OK; it was the opposite, really. I didn't want to sound like a doofus without a clue, so I came in to "explain myself". Which I didn't do very clearly in the original post.
R.
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03/23/2006 07:45:43 PM · #24 |
| What is amazing about this is that you got 100k hits from one posting on this fark site. If you go to the fark site they are covered with various ads and google ads. Can you imagine how much this site makes from the unique eye hits on their ads!!!!! |
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03/23/2006 09:32:00 PM · #25 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by nards656:
These are not "external links" in the sense you might think. This is simply someone posting the link to the page where the photo is visible. The shot is still viewed from "within" DPC. DPC doesn't allow or support external deep linking. All of these views were done with the "dpchallenge" logo and banner showing across the top of the page just like we always see. In other words, it's totally legitimate, even if it was generated by a link on another page. |
No, I understand that. My terminology just wasn't very good. I meant to say I'd naively assumed the views came from members of the DPC community. The image was, of course, externally linked. But the views, of course, came from within the DPC site, as this is where the link brought people. And my naivete was assuming only DPCers view "our" images, which is silly. Anyone can stumble upon the site, or be directed here, and view images; for example, I have sent the URL of my portfolio to my sister and certainly a number of my views are generated by her checking in from time to time to see what I'm up to, and she's not a DPCer, so...
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R. |
Bear_Music - if you (or any DPCer) enter your user name into Google and hit the Images button, you will find 166 thumbnails of your DPC images. Each of them brings up the DPC page.
Yep, we're visible. It's an easy way to send your stuff to friends and relatives... |
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