Zero Bock on Challenges... ©UdoSm

Hi Udo
I really did not intend to personalize any think said by you I apologize if I have offended you in any way. I thought I was just saying the obvious. Freedom of choice for all to choose Challenges or not. That is all.
I think there is sometimes misunderstandings because of language I only speak English. And sometime it hard to interpret what is actually being said. Again no offence was intended towards you personally. We are friends here and have been for a long time.

Thank you Tess, that is accepted...

I don't understand what the problem is. Is it because you see so many challenge group contributions on Explore? Are they somehow bad? Poor quality? Or just too many?

One option is to have "secret societies". Sometimes I keep my challenge group contributions as private, and share them only within the group. That also keeps the images away form Explore. Some challenge groups could of course decide to do so in general.

But personally I prefer to let all flowers bloom. Excluding of course SPAM and "inappropriate". I even think the challenge group contributions also challenges what is usually seen as "popular". Usually the pretty landscapes and a figure of some living creature (human or animal) is seen the most popular.

Although, it also seems that "popular is popular". Who ever becomes favorite then receives even more faves, no matter what becomes posted. That can be applied to challenge groups. Because those groups have become popular, then people participating to them (including me) seem to acknowledge more easily just the effort of getting the challenge done.

And if someone wants to read more on what probably affects on such things as what makes a picture "popular" or "memorable", here are two links on those subjects:

What makes an image popular?
A. Khosla, A. Das Sarma and R. Hamid
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2014
popularity.csail.mit.edu

Isola, P., Xiao, J., Torralba, A., Oliva, A. What makes an image memorable? IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2011. Pages 145-152.
web.mit.edu/phillipi/Public/WhatMakesAnImageMemorable

I suppose here at ipernity the popularity especially depends on "social cues" mentioned on the article by Khosia, Das Sarma and Hamid:

- Number of views of all public images of the user
- Number of public images uploaded by the user
- Number of contacts of the user
- Number of groups the user belongs to
- Number of members in the groups an user belongs to
- The amount of time since the user joined to photo service

Wenn ich unter Neuheiten "Meine Kommentare" anschauen möchte, kann ich den Spam-Kommentaren leider nicht aus dem Weg gehen, sonst verpasse ich auch die seriösen und interessanten Kommentare. Ich versuche sie dann eben zu ignorieren (und denke, aha user xyz ist mal wieder mit Copy&Paste unterwegs- weiter unten hier im Thread hat's auch Beispiele-lol!)