Author Topic: How an image is promoted in the Popular Cateogry on Shutter (Read 2443 times)

Goofy · « **on:** February 04, 2014, 10:38 »

Does anyone have theories on how an image is elevated on the popular category for Shutter? I've thought maybe views, subs downloads, OD's, SOD and EL. Also the dollar amount of the SOD's? Since Shutter give promotions to artists based on $$ I was thinking just the $$ amount of the sales on the image might be the sole trigger to determining where it resides on the popular page?

pancaketom · « **Reply #1 on:** February 04, 2014, 10:54 »

No, and it changes from time to time, plus also possibly by geography and it might be different depending on who is doing the searching. In any case the time a file has been at SS also is an important part of the mix. It used to be some variation of sales/time but if that is all it is now they have tweaked it so that recent files with a few sales are above older files with a lot more sales.

grey1 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 04, 2014, 10:55 »

Quote from: Goofy on February 04, 2014, 10:38

Does anyone have theories on how an image is elevated on the popular category for Shutter? I've thought maybe views, subs downloads, OD's, SOD and EL. Also the dollar amount of the SOD's? Since Shutter give promotions to artists based on $$ I was thinking just the $$ amount of the sales on the image might be the sole trigger to determining where it resides on the popular page?

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LesPalenik · « **Reply #3 on:** February 05, 2014, 08:28 »

The problem is the choice of the words.
Most buyers would assume that "most popular" order would list the images sorted by the number of downloads.
If they make a purchase decision based on the false information, that could be a valid reason to sue the supplier for being deceptive and unethical.

ShadySue · « **Reply #4 on:** February 05, 2014, 08:33 »

Quote from: LesPalenik on February 05, 2014, 08:28

The problem is the choice of the words.
Most buyers would assume that "most popular" order would list the images sorted by the number of downloads.
If they make a purchase decision based on the false information, that could be a valid reason to sue the supplier for being deceptive and unethical.

I'm not sure that I would expect 'most popular' to be the same as most downloads.
It could be that, or it could be most sold 'recently' however that's defined.
After all, could it be said that an image which hypothetically sold hundreds images way back, but has only sold ten images in the past couple of years (e.g. because of competition in the intervening period) is currently 'most popular'?
I suspect the word 'popular' is legally vague.

LesPalenik · « **Reply #5 on:** February 05, 2014, 08:38 »

In the current implementation of the "popular" sort order, you can get images that never sold, shown before images that were sold multiple times.
That is by any definition incorrect and deceptive information.

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