Okay, so we’ve established that I’m a ‘Splo’Ho’ after all, and that although I don’t try to game the system or even do anything to try to get in, I’m always at least mildly amused when I do. I spent some time yesterday just poking around Flickr, not logged in so nothing could be “suggested” to me, and I found some goddamned good photography. Much of it, though, had few comments and views, and sometimes none at all. Some were because they had poor titles (usually default name assigned by the camera software) and hadn’t been submitted to any groups, but others had, and still…nothing. Now, I certainly make no claim to be a photo critic, and I know that the Magic Donkey algorithm doesn’t pick “the best” photos, but rather those with the highest “interestingness” score, but still, one would think that some of this good stuff would at least get in over the latest boring fucking (“contents of my purse”, wardrobe remix, water droplet, sunset, macro of book and eyeglasses, cute kid/puppy/kitten portrait, whatever). Submitted to no groups at all (didn’t do that until I answered the invitations this morning, and JEEE-ZUS, I hate those “post one, comment two-three-twelve-fifteen with our award” groups) not one, but both shots of my little jumping spider made it into Explore. A fairly boring macro of a little beige-brown jumping spider…but not the gorgeous stuff I saw yesterday? Yeah, that’s fucked; I think the donkey smokes crack or something. 🙂