Each image on The Lens Flare receives a score from 1 to 100.  This number is updated every night and is used, in part, to determine which order the images show up in the various galleries.  You can view your image’s scores by visiting the “Manage Images” page in your dashboard.

There are many aspects that go into the scoring system.  These include the age on the site, the overall page views, the number of page views per day, the number and quality of comments, the length and quality of the photo’s description,  the average rating the picture has received, etc.

Sometimes a picture on somebody’s most popular page will drop or another one will jump up seemingly from nowhere. The main reason those images moved in the rankings was because somebody rated them.  The rating can have a dramatic effect and will swing a picture’s score by several points, and at the top pages, a few points means a lot.

I have several checks in place to ensure that the rating system is not easily exploited and thus my system is more fair than any other site that I know of on the web.  Good, honest ratings of images provide a valuable measurement to determine a picture’s overall score.  It adds a subjective aspect to the scoring system that just looking at hits and the other metrics couldn’t do.

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