Following Photographers

I accidentally followed myself on photonet. How do I remove myself from my list of followed photographers?

You should be able to click on follow again and unfollow.

Thanks Sandy worked like a charm.

Since joining photonet, I have been viewing photos published by other members. I recently viewed a member who had 1.8 million views on a photo. Also, I have viewed other members with amazing view numbers 10k, 100k, 500k. I am just amazed at these view numbers. How does something like this happen?

am just amazed at these view numbers. How does something like this happen?

Best guess, they have links lots of different places and have content / style many find interesting.

PN has also been visited many times by the so called robots ( programs that access webpages in an automated way, sometimes intending to cause Denial of Service (DoS) attacks), that can raise the view count to very high numbers within very short periods. I have experienced this on one or two of my own photos and notified the admin in the past. Some really good and really old photos can indeed have 100,000 views, but if a photo shows millions of views and is not a nude and / or clearly not an universally likable work (or is a recent one), then it can as well be the work of a robot/malicious program.

 

In my personal opinion, PN acts as an easy testing ground for some would be hackers and scammers, who test out their codes either for fun or as prototypes for targeting more lucrative sites. I don't think, we are that valuable for serious hacking since we don't store much sensitive / personal information.

Thanks Supriyo and Sandy for the info.