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Detailed explanation of the Group series and its invitations

Andreas Helke says:

This group series works quite different than a normal flickr group.

Since only the group administrator is responsible for selecting all photos in a group you get a much better focus on a theme. The pool content is only a subset of what the members of a normal group would consider suitable for a group pool.

The group membership is not important for the activity level in a group. A group in this series with an active administrator gets more new new photos than a mid sized normal flickr group even if it has almost no members.

I selected three group pool badges to show in the invitation because they give you a better idea what you actually find in the group series than a written explanation could do.
Originally posted at 3:25PM, 14 May 2010 PDT (permalink)
Andreas Helke edited this topic 21 months ago.

	Andreas Helke says: This is the invitation into one of the groups of the Amazing Image flickr group series. I selected your photo for inclusion in my Amazing Image project which consists of linked flickr groups. With this invitation you have the chance to contribute to the early phase of a project which might evolve into one of the most exiting places in flickr. Getting invited by an administrator is the only way to get your image into one of those groups. If your image has a frame or does not show a large size view in the flickriver.com flickr image viewer I invited your image into a 5 FAV group instead. If you decide to allow access to a larger size view you can then simply add your image into the the appropriate Amazing Image group. I created more than 100 flickr groups in the Amazing Image flickr group series . There are that many groups to be able to sort any photo encountered in a group pool or search or in the explore pages into a group with a narrow topic. Many of the groups are still empty or only have a few photos in them until I find and invite suitable high quality photos. If your photo is the first in a so far empty group pool its automatically the most interesting photo currently in the group. So you may add it to the Amazing Image: The Central Hub group too. The pool of this group is reserved to photos that are the currently the most interesting ones in the other Amazing Image groups. The average photo in my groups has about 20 to more than 100 favorites and a lot of comments. Those are just almost inevitable on the photos I look for and play no part in the selection itself. I only invite photos that show a large version in the flickriver.com tool. So checking out my groups with this tool is a remarkable experience. You only get high quality photos shown big enough to properly view an appreciate them. You can test it yourself with the badges shown below. You may notice that I did not pay attention to size when I started inviting. Now size is my most important selection criterium. This group series aims at inviting some of the most amazing images found on flickr to create amazing quality group pools concentrating on a narrow topic in each group. I know that your image is one of the most amazing that can be found on flickr and likely got a lot of attention and invitations already. I hope you don´t mind to accept just one more invitation. Some of the groups in the project. If you click on those banners you´ll see a large image view of the group if you select the large size in the tool. In contrast to a normal flickr group the administrator selection of all images in the Amazing Image group series makes sure that all the images in the group have almost the same high quality as the photos shown above. All people are welcome as members even if they don´t have photos to contribute. Just click here to get to the group page of the central administration group Links to the already active groups can be found there. I personally have just 5 or 10 photos among 8,000 that fit well into this group series in quality and popularity. If you are interested to present your own less spectacular photos head over to the Amazing Image: Photography Discussion group by clicking on the badge below. In this group the entry requirements for the group pool are much less restrictive. The rules about lack of frames and minimum size shown in the flickriver tool still apply here. The group administrators only invite the photos they consider the best into the groups of the series. This can lead to remarkably good looking group pool pages like the one shown here. 100 views 2010-08-08 Originally posted 23 months ago. (permalink) Andreas Helke edited this topic 21 months ago.
	Andreas Helke says: Safe and moderate groups (only safe photos show in the widgets) www.flickr.com/groups/1389266@N24/ www.flickr.com/groups/1394337@N20/ Moderate and restrictecd groups (only safe photos show in the widgets) Originally posted 23 months ago. (permalink) Andreas Helke edited this topic 21 months ago.
	Andreas Helke says: Safe and moderate groups (only safe photos show in the widgets) Moderate and Restricted groups (only safe photos show in the widgets) Posted 21 months ago. (permalink)
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