I know there are those of us on Flickr who complain about the Magic Donkey, also known as Explore… I mean really, how can a computer algorithm really tell us humans what is interesting?
Thing is, when you get in – and high enough, I might add – it really does work… the photo above I uploaded to Flickr Sunday afternoon around 4:30pm local time… by 1:00pm Monday it had over 1000 views. The highest Explore position was #8… in my opinion it’s not even the best photo from the set I took that day (in fact, this sat in my upload folder because I was hedging for the past couple weeks if I should even upload it), but who’s complaining? Not me! Thanks for all the views, comments and faves – and whatever else it took to reach that high on Explore.
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I haven’t had a look through the set, but if this is one of the worse-er ones than I know I’ll have fun looking.
And about the magic donkey, it knows because it’s magic. And that’s a good enough reason for me. I think Explore is a crap shoot anyway, so I don’t even think about it. Maybe that’ll change if I ever get anything in there…