How many reddit users will favorite a photo on flickr

Someone on reddit linked over to my Biden-Palin word cloud and gave me 4,400 visitors.

Interesting that out of the 5,406 views (an addition 1,000 came from places other than reddit), this image has gotten only one favorite. I wonder if this is typical of reddit traffic to flickr where people go to just to view something, and then they don’t fav the image. Perhaps they aren’t members of flickr (but who isn’t, really? If you are techie enough to be on reddit, chances you are are on flickr too).

I looked up the past month’s most popular posts on reddit with “flickr” in the post.

The general rule… for every 1,000 to 4,000 reddit visitors to your flickr image, you can expect one user to fav your image.

Top 150 words spoken at the Biden-Palin vice-presidential candidate debate

# 1 person calls this photo a favorite

# Viewed 5,419 times

One in 5,419 views will favorite

Are you registered to vote?

# 12 people call this photo a favorite

# Viewed 48,104 times

One in 4,008 views will favorite

.Aphids. (+2)

# 37 people call this photo a favorite

# Viewed 48,188 times

One in 1,302 views will favorite

That One ’08

# 29 people call this photo a favorite

# Viewed 20,788 times

One in 716 views will favorite

monitored

# 6 people call this photo a favorite

# Viewed 2,910 times

One in 485 views will favorite

DSC_9145

# 0 people call this photo a favorite

# Viewed 1,289 times

McCain’s Second Deate

# 0 people call this photo a favorite

# Viewed 3,369 times

There were some other photos that had hundreds of favorites. I did not include those, because I’m assuming the photo caught on in popularity and got favorites before it was posted on reddit.

And there’s another factor that reddit is just text links with a tiny thumbnail. People will click on the link because it has an interesting title. Much like the “Creepy little green bugs [pic]. But when you get to the image, it’s kinda gross. Only one out of 1,302 views fav’ed it. Maybe my word cloud isn’t that interesting to make people to want to fav it. Or maybe reddit users just don’t fav items on flickr that much.