Flickr has an interestingness algorithm with which they rank all the pictures. If your pic rates high, you appear on their Explore Interesting page, and lots of people have the opportunity to click on them.
I'm not that bothered by click throughs (although the pic in which I mention Spock has now shot to the top, beating out my Kenya pictures, which is just not right. It's an exceedingly mundane picture), but favourites can creep me out. A pic of my sister was favourited by someone who had sister in his (I guess) username, and his other favourites were all of pretty sisters. I banned him right quick. Another picture of my sister just got favourited, and by looking at his favourites it seems he really likes Princess Margaret. He's good. No need to defend against him.
Fwiw, lisah, from what (very little) I know of the interest in choirboy/Little Lord Fauntleroy types, they mostly want to
be
a pretty little angelboy. It's on the forced feminization spectrum along with the wild and wacky world of Petticoat Punishment. Here's an even more apt example.
Not Work Safe
Is it tagged as "family pictures"?
No! Just with the first names. The photo does have 'butler' in the title so maybe it's butler fetishists who are into it!
Flickr has an interestingness algorithm with which they rank all the pictures. If your pic rates high, you appear on their Explore Interesting page, and lots of people have the opportunity to click on them.
Yeah, this picture wasn't on the Explore page.
Anyway, I made it viewable by friends and family only. Which kind of sucks because a lot of people who I'd want to be able to see it (like, say, my brother) aren't on flickr.
I'm not that bothered by click throughs
I wouldn't be if it was a picture of me or a picture of my band or something. But because it's kids it freaks me out a little.
from what (very little) I know of the interest in choirboy/Little Lord Fauntleroy types, they mostly want to be a pretty little angelboy.
People are very odd, aren't they?
Not Work Safe
I appreciate the warning. But I'm so curious!
In totally unrelated news, my mother and I bonded over our chronic watching of Criminal Intent, Vincent D'Onofrio's changing appearance, and Nicole's overall ickiness. And then she confessed to watching a reality show whose name I shall not speak. I was shocked, and a little gleeful.
this picture wasn't on the Explore page
There are also a lot of external apps which search flickr and present thumbnails to their users (as I learnt with the Star Trek post). So any random thing that gets the picture out in front of an appreciative audience can jack your numbers right up, and that will pull your set numbers up too, since some people will be looking for more of same.
I've found that linking in Buffistas provides many more hits than I'd have expected--the lurkers are out there, and they're clicking links.
Linking here or in LJ provides most of my hits. I think more than I got either time Lillian was featured on Blogging Baby.
Damn, ita, after clicking through some pictures, I am once again struck by how your whole family is gorgeous.
Because I trust you guys, it's this picture:
Ahahahaha. I love you all, and I still think of this place as a safe-ish space, but it is most definitely not as private (or as safe) as we seem to think it is. Trust me.
Flickr - I friends-lock most of my pictures, and private-lock a whole bunch. I've gotten some random requests from tights communities (literally, all opaque tights) and such.
