Playing the Flickr Game

I keep going back and forth with regards to going pro on Flickr, but as of yet, I’ve yet to pony up the dough (though if someone wants to gift me, I’ll accept ;)). But while I ponder what to do with the smaller sets of photos that I take now (I used to go out and take a series every month, but haven’t in about a year), I’ve been posting the odd shot or two per week to Flickr. In this process, I’ve found an interesting game to play.

Flickr has some system for determining interestingness. I don’t know how it works, but you can see what photos are interesting in your own stream. What I know about this rating is that it depends in part on a ratio between views, comments and favs. So the game is to farm your photo out to different groups or get it blogged to get it more exposure and get it rated higher. You also have to get more contacts and gain exposure that way. I’ve been able to get my recent picture of Grumpy as my number 2 (as of right now), second only to my long exposure of Paradise Pier. I guess the goal of the game is to get something into Explore.