I thought that was strange too... Not only because of that specific clipart, but also because of what happened to me:<div><br></div><div>1) I uploaded a clipart yesterday.</div><div>2) Very few minutes after that (5 or 10 minutes, I think), it had already been downloaded by about 300 people or more.</div>
<div>3) As I noticed there was a visual problem with my clipart, I deleted it, fixed and reuploaded (<a href="http://www.openclipart.org/detail/63841">http://www.openclipart.org/detail/63841</a>) ... and now it has 446 downloads already.<div>
<br><div>As someone said, maybe he posted his flag somewhere and people (probably Brazilians) started visiting OpenClipart to download it and found other Brazilian clipart, like <a href="http://www.openclipart.org/detail/63895">http://www.openclipart.org/detail/63895</a> (that has been downloaded a lot more than the ones uploaded by the same time).</div>
<div><br></div><div>About submitting already existing clipart, maybe there could be a hint like "before you upload, search if there is already a similar clipart" or something like that.</div><div><br></div><div>
Best regards,</div><div>Leonardo Cunha</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/6/1 J. Alves <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alvesjmp@gmail.com">alvesjmp@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Not that it matters, but I've noticed that this clipart had more than<br>
6000 downloads in less than 24 hours:<br>
<a href="http://www.openclipart.org/detail/63763" target="_blank">http://www.openclipart.org/detail/63763</a><br>
<br>
Weird...<br>
<br>
And by the way, why do people keep submitting the same drawing over<br>
and over when the collection already has it? How many identical copies<br>
of Tux and the Brazilian flag do we need, really? The search box works<br>
very well now, people should try it...<br>
<br>
J<br>
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