[Clipart] Fishy...

[Leonardo Cunha]

I thought that was strange too... Not only because of that specific clipart,
but also because of what happened to me:

1) I uploaded a clipart yesterday.
2) Very few minutes after that (5 or 10 minutes, I think), it had already
been downloaded by about 300 people or more.
3) As I noticed there was a visual problem with my clipart, I deleted it,
fixed and reuploaded (http://www.openclipart.org/detail/63841) ... and now
it has 446 downloads already.

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 http://www.openclipart.org/detail/63895 (that has
been downloaded a lot more than the ones uploaded by the same time).

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.

Best regards,
Leonardo Cunha


2010/6/1 J. Alves <alvesjmp at gmail.com>

> Not that it matters, but I've noticed that this clipart had more than
> 6000 downloads in less than 24 hours:
> http://www.openclipart.org/detail/63763
>
> Weird...
>
> And by the way, why do people keep submitting the same drawing over
> and over when the collection already has it? How many identical copies
> of Tux and the Brazilian flag do we need, really? The search box works
> very well now, people should try it...
>
> J
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