Flickr makes no sense either, other than that the number of views is proportional to the extent to which the photographer works the system (gathers reciprocal followers) - a few get high counts on merit alone, but fewer than those who maximise their following -and Flickr is a moderately specialist (mostly) photo-sharing website. Still - that's the way the world works - as Johndav says, take pictures that you like, perfect your art,and when the views come, you'll know you've earned them
And yes - I get irritated too sometimes ;D
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It puts me in mind of a conversation I had at the London Gift Fair at Olympia back in the 80s. An agent who worked for our company spent most of his time on the stand of another company he also represented because it was constantly busy. It sold tat, and he knew it - when I commented on this he said that when he first started in the business his father had given him the sage advice " Nobody ever got rich overestimating the taste of the great British public," I've never forgotten that conversation