Cheating at Flickr

I cheat at Flickr.

All the time.

I first started cheating at Flickr by sending links to pictures on my photostream to Twitter.  For the first 5-10 minutes or so after posting to Twitter, the pic I posted would get a handful of hits.  Sometimes as many as 10.  Woah!  10 people looking at my picture!  I feel so photographicallyer.  (I just invented that word.  You're welcome)

Next came Stumbleupon.  Oh, did I use that to cheat at Flickr.  The first time I used it, I submitted about 10 pictures.  Within about 30 minutes many of them had ballooned to over 100 hits.  Two pictures actually got up over 700 hits within a couple of hours!  Wow!  I then started submitting pictures regularly, but that moment of magic never returned.  A submission would grab 10-20 hits and that would be all.

That would be all, at least, until I realized that if the picture were in multiple sets and groups I could submit it multiple times.  The same image viewed through a group has a different url than viewed through the photostream, or from a set.  I went nuts.  I got nine pictures up over 1000 hits.  I am a maniac when it comes to cheating at Flickr.

Now when I cheat at Flickr I am using Reddit.  I post my pictures to the itookapicture subreddit and watch the hits roll in.  I've been posting stuff there for a couple of weeks, and all but one picture has received over 100 hits.  (FYI: 100 hits is a mountain for me.  It's a drop in a bucket for the really good Flickr users)  Twice I even saw submissions top 1400 hits.  It's just out of control how much I cheat at Flickr!

This picture was completely overlooked.  I think it had a few hits, but not many.  Now after a few days on reddit?  1459, and a comment too!


I really didn't think much of this one.  I threw it onto reddit because it had zero hits and it didn't completely suck.  I wanted to see what happened.  By the end of the day it was over 1000 hits.  It's at 1482 now!  Talk about cheating at Flickr!


I'm just completely out of my mind.  I cheat at Flickr like crazy.  It's like I have a cheating at Flickr disease!

I posted one picture earlier today that has been hit over 160 times already.  I've even started lining up pics to post in the near future.  This one will probably go up today:


Really, I should feel guilty about how much Flickr cheating I do.  Then I stop and think for a minute and realize that no one gives a flying leap about any of this crap except me.  Let the Flickr cheating continue!