a conspiracy theory...

Pals,

Generally, I tend to argue that Explore is a lottery:

It's nice to win, but it says nothing beyond you had some luck.

Currently, I want to step further and propose a conspiracy theory:

 

When you post a good photo, you get many views, most of them from people that don't feel obliged to you in any way; they enjoy the photo, but do not bother to fav, needless to say: comment on it.

Result: You get many views, but a low percent of favs and comment.

 

When you post a 'not so good' photo, most of the people that would view it would be your friends. They, on the other hand, feel obliged to you. They would comment and fav even if the photo is not that great.

Result: You don't get so many views, but high percent of favs and comments.

 

Bottom line: The Explore algorithm would prefer your less interesting photo, over your better one.

 

You are invited to look at my two previous posts: one of them was on Explore, and the other was not; and decide for yourself about my devil's theory…

:-)

Done