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I have long been curious as to why images get the number of views, comments, and rankings they do, (and to a lesser extent why some get into the Hot 20 and others do not). There seems to be some component based on the poster's identity. High profile posters (HPP) always get a lot of attention; it often seems that a mediocre effort by a HPP gets many comments and accolades, while an lesser known poster may get overlooked for a great image. Certainly there are cases when the thumbnail is 'better' than the large image, or vice versa. Sometimes a thumb gets a lot of views, and no comments. (this may be a case of thumb looking nicer than the image). Or a great image is largely overlooked because the thumbnail is drab and doesn't capture some subtle beauty of the large image. With my own images, many times the ones I like best are not popular at all. I seem to generate the most views with flame images, yet they are the easiest to do. (It consists mostly of pressing ^B; find something nice, then a little tweaking, then slap it into UF3 and try to get it to look solid, maybe add a background.) 'Normal' UF3 images take a lot more imagination and effort, and get far less attention generally. Often images I almost don't think are worth posting wind up getting a lot of views. I find it is best not to worry about it; because I can't predict which of mine (or anyone else's) will 'strike a chord' with the viewers. I think all of us make fractals because we love to make them and look at them. It is nice when others like the ones we make too. But that is more like icing.