alt Hacker NewsHow many of these images are there? I cycled through a few and ended up hitting at least one duplicate [1] that I do actually enjoy (but I can't find the name of it now that I refreshed the page, I know it had the verrazzano narrows bridge in the title)
Is there a chance a site like this could ruin their metric by inflating all the views for these lowest viewed items? Or do these not count?
[1] https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/67395c18-c83c-865f-b0db-4736574...
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We're not worried about ruining this metric. We want people to see art.
Querying the API, there seem to be 112998 artworks with this label as of this moment.
(I'm deliberately not posting the direct API call in case it's expensive for them to run. Documentation is found here: https://api.artic.edu/docs/#fields-collections-artworks)
If the views are all real views it's hardly "inflating" anything.
The site calls the API directly (www.artic.edu), so yeah, probably it will ruin^W change the metric. It's probably the creator's idea?
Some, ahem, video sites, have "Popular videos". Of course the videos that end up there get more views and get even more popular...