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I didnt either  but I wasnt expecting to as I keep bobbing in and out of the top 100 carnie 

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perhaps because they made 188 comments on the odditorium other lucky oliver members are viewing their profile.

sharply_done, the portfolio list doesn't have anything to do with photo sales or views- many on those on the list send traffic to their portfolios from outside links.  I thought it would be nice to show active Carnies. 

As an example, Yuri doesn't get much portfolio traffic, but his images do sell from search.

Well, sure.  Perhaps this week I'll publish some of my favorite photos.  I think this list is more of what your talking about:
http://www.luckyoliver.com/blog/294/stunning_new_images

I think rewarding Carnies that have participated in the community with exposure isn't a bad thing.  It's statistical analysis. Many of these artists are driving traffic to other people's work. 

The portfolios that received the most views came from a wide selection of Carnies. This list is generated from unique portfolio views- not a sum of all photos views. 

Basically, I wanted to show which Carnies gain traction and exposure- if their portfolios are not up to snuff then photo views would be lower.  I might do a separate list of people with most exposure total.

I respectfully disagree Bryan.  I don't like the idea of awarding a lot of message board posting with increased portfolio exposure.  A lot of the posts I read when I was active had to do with griping about slow site traffic, and how people were doing at other agencies.  I don't know why this should be rewarded with portfolio exposure.

If you are looking for innovative ways to give people empowerment and exposure, I suggest basing an idea on 123RF's "Fave" list, which is one of the simplest, best ideas I have come across.  It allows contributors to take 1 image for every 20 accepted images (5%), and "Fave" it.  The result is the any "Faved" image ends up near the top of the relevant search list. 

I like this type of empowerment, as it allows artists to put their money with their mouth is with ideas of what their best images are.  Something along these lines is smart in my opinion, and a lot more empowering than something you are going to run into elsewhere.  Think along these types of lines and get artists more involved with promoting their portfolios.  If people want to post a lot, let them post a lot.  I prefer to create images rather than chat about a site.

I don't know why it would.  If I am a buyer looking for images, I want Search to return the best, or at least most relevant, images.  If "community participation" (other than message boards and blogging, what is there?) is influencing search, then you are not exactly giving buyers what they are searching for.  Why do they care if someone likes to post a lot?

ditto...it's one thing for an IS to engine tweak (even though i disagree with it) because they have the traffic and revenue stream to get away with it. LO has neither. It just winds up a mess, and as you said, may not deliver the image the client is searching for...not really the best way to "service" your customers OR your contributors.

plenty

I've done lots of searches at LO, and I always find my own images at page one zillion, which is probably the reason why I have no sales there.

Danp68-
I put a list of artists up on our blog that highlighted /portfolio views. It was a statistical list. It shows some transparency. The traffic could be from outside sites and blogs(referrers), internal links and photo pages.  It's nothing more than a tip of the hat. These artists have participated in the community or created amazing work to get traffic to their images. Why are we not suppose to highlight people that make LO better place?

http://www.luckyoliver.com/blog/294/stunning_new_images 

At the same time we try to highlight talented artists.  We also try to let the market decide what is great with the sideshow, search and feedback.