POD is a big part of Pinkbike.com, we can count on it being in the left hand corner of the site every day. I decided to take POD one step further and find out the POM, That's right Picture Of the Month.
Look inside for the top five POD's from November as well as the most viewed and fav'ed POD's!This is completely decided by the viewers, I have no more input into this than any of you. I used a simple equation, Views divided by Fav's.
But before we get to the POM, we will take a look at a few other standouts. Pinkbike.com has tons of visits everyday, which means if one of your photos are selected for POD thousands and thousands of people will see that picture. Here are the Top Pics from November:
MOST VIEWS
nic1894 submitted this one and it got over 47,727 views! Unfortunately it was later learned that it belonged to raging-hippo.pinkbike.com and the original can be seen below.
Most Favorites
Every POD gets more favorites than most photos get views. This month figaro took the cake with over 1585 Fav's!
Top 5
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#4-
#3-
#2-
#1-
Picture of the month was submitted by mentalaboutbikes!
Congratulations to everyone who got POD this month!
If you liked POM and would like to see it every month let me know!
Jason Petersjdpeters.com
www.pinkbike.com/photo/2778264
3000 faves
Also, rather amusingly, for all those haters that bitch about PODs not showing any skill or enough sick to the power of radness, the most popular photo this month showed somebody pushing their bike.
Unless I understand that wrong, that means the more fav's a pic has, the lower the 'score' it gets (as it is being divided by a higher number)
Am i being dumb?
Great idea either way!
but anyway, nice initiative!
MULTIPLICATION is what should be used here for the following reasoning:
examples:
50,000 views*0 favs= 0 score (very famous, but nobody likes it- kinda like the world's fattest man or something like that)
1,000 views * 1,000 favs = 1,000,000 score (The picture isn't extremely famous but everyone who has seen it seems to love it- make this pod and its score will increase 1,000-fold- assuming that 32,000 people see it and fav it)
5,000 views * 100 favs = 500,000 score (Quite a few people have seen it, but not everyone loves it- could be a controversial pod)
hahahah
Well he only chooses from the PODs to decide a winner, if i am correct. This wold mean it would have may views becuase it is on the homepage... but i do agree that favs/views isnt a geat idea and we should use a different system perhaps...
Views/favs is only good imo if there are huge fluctuations in the traffic of users that visit pinkbike. (example: if 1000,000 people visit in June and 500,000 people visit the site in July- it should be reasonable that any pods in June will get twice as many views and twice as many favs on average- resulting in a score for favs*views that is 4 times higher than July's PODs, even though the quality of the pictures is the same.)
Sure there is a way to go around all these problems, but I'm definitely not in the mood to think about it right now... some other day I might give it a thought
Views "divided by"(views - favs)x100 = picture score>
for example--- November #1 POM would be 29400-1399 = 28001
29400 "divided by" 28001 = 1.0499625 x100 = 104.99625
so the Novmber #1 picture would score (104.99625)
im pretty sure this would work. it would mean that the more people favourie a pic, the score would inrease...
all info is there........
peace
stacy
GREAT POD´s