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PhotosLugar da Nave Quarry, Nave, Monchique, Monchique, Faro District, Portugal

28th Apr 2013 09:35 UTCRui Nunes 🌟 Expert

Lugar da Nave quarry, Nave, Monchique, Monchique, Faro, Portugal

This photo has been childishly re-viewed for more than five hundred (500) times to increase the counter value so it can appear on the locality front page. It Is not a correct atitute, isn't it?

This happens too often and demonstrates a total lack of decency...

28th Apr 2013 14:59 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager

Which photo did represent the locality earlier, i.e. based on non-manipulated photo counts?

28th Apr 2013 18:21 UTCRui Nunes 🌟 Expert

The locality was previouly represented by photo http://www.mindat.org/photo-124504.html

28th Apr 2013 18:29 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager

Reinstated.

4th May 2013 10:18 UTCAntónio Manuel Ináçio Martins

Mr. Rui Nunes is very concerned about the number of photos views of other authors and forgets to check their photos.

two examples:

http://www.mindat.org/photo-514280.html

http://www.mindat.org/photo-235855.html

Something is very wrong in Mindat on photographic representations by more than one author in most localities in Portugal, which reportedly were manipulated after I make a statistic.

I have concluded to have the connivance of the editor about this situation or develops every day thankless job to ensure the ranking of your photos and scanning all them, personally do not believe that because it is unreal.

The list is long and I will give some examples of locations referred this matter:

http://www.mindat.org/loc-46366.html

http://www.mindat.org/loc-55511.html

http://www.mindat.org/loc-64512.html

http://www.mindat.org/loc-46421.html

http://www.mindat.org/loc-126108.html

http://www.mindat.org/loc-2584.html

http://www.mindat.org/loc-46346.html

http://www.mindat.org/loc-46365.html

http://www.mindat.org/loc-46419.html

http://www.mindat.org/loc-2592.html

http://www.mindat.org/loc-8105.html - This photo is wrong because is mine

http://www.mindat.org/loc-105713.html

http://www.mindat.org/loc-189812.html

I think that with patience or with the help of the editor is possible to verify this situation because the statistic does not lie. For me it was best if the computer program ought to be random in photographic representation on the front page when the location was represented by more one picture or more one author.

Thank´s

Martins da Pedra

5th May 2013 17:04 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager

Right now is looks like somebody has a bad program that is trying to download Mindat.

For instance, http://www.mindat.org/photo-368037.html has been viewed >27000 times in the last days (basically every recent view from the same IP address).

6th May 2013 00:06 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert

Don't forget Pinterest or any other of the dozens if not hundreds of sites that feature pretty pictures...

for example http://pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=Paulingite

6th May 2013 02:05 UTCRob Woodside 🌟 Manager

Thanks Maggie. Lots of great pictures there, but with little info!!! At least one is taken from Mindat with no credit. Do people just pin pretty pictures there from the net without giving any credit? I'm not sure what this has to do with the problem we are currently having.

6th May 2013 11:39 UTCMaggie Wilson Expert

Hi Rob - likely doesn't have anything to do with the problem, but I was pointing out that websites like Pinterest allow any user to upload any photo. They are then made available for others to view and re-pin. And there is no provision for photo credits unless the pinner is careful enough to include the information in the description.

If a picture is particularly well liked by the members, then it will register on the "popular" page and gain even more views possibly more uploads to other sites. Over 27000 times in the last few days...? I have no way of knowing, but my guess is not likely.

Hope the tech problem is resolved soon.

M

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