Exactly. The ranking should be for visitors and… not really for us as hunter. Good point, as I mentioned before actually. The ranking is not a race or competition and we should try to avoid this in any case when and where possible.
The current ranking causes many doubts, questions etc. The only ranking which makes sense in a way is the the total artworks.
Perhaps, we shouldn’t make that ranking seem more important than it is.
A complete list with countries- cities - number existing artworks (and maybe (historic artworks) ) is actually more than enough? All the rest is a source of neverendering discussion, comparing cities, towns, villages with totally differente character, even a totally different urban art scene (like… Belgium is not really that paste up country… 100 km away into Germany… you find plenty of that).
So, in every aspect of urban art, u need to implement algorithms then and at the end of the day… you know what?
We talk about art, this is something with a really different wide taste(I am not talking about hitting a like button on the app, but is this is not relevant in comparing with the app views in a city). Are you sure that a brilliant artwork from Roa in City X is 100X hitted by an app user? You should be surprised how less the like button is pushed in comparing with mobileviews. I barely, or better say, I never use the like button. In function of the app, seen is for me priority. If l like the work, or don’t like. Yesterday did again a little tour in my city to hit the seen button(and found a gone one yes, added 2 other older pieces… 2 places higher in the ranking… ridiculous in fact).
In the French language, there is a very well known expression
“des goûts et des couleurs, on ne discute pas”
@Streetartwerpenaar Mentioned: partner cities bonus points? Could be interesting. I had a quick peak on Vilvoorde, and have seen which kind of uploads the hunter(City Vilvoorde) did… not even a complete sprayed letters. Not even stuff which should be allowed on the map actually.