Uploaded photos aren't necessarily beauty contest winners. Some are just clinical anatomy shots. I usually click like on most of the pics because I love seeing plants that I'll only see in pics, appreciate the effort it took to share them, the contribution to make the site more robust.
Some pics get a lot of likes because they are also shown in a discussion and have that additional opportunity to get noticed. And then when one gets enough thumbs to pop up on the home page, there can be a snowball effect as even more people see it there and click it.
You have contributed a lot of great pics, Frank! If you want to see "the cream rise to the top," the best pics on the site, you can look at the most popular pics on the site by changing "today" to "forever" and "new" to "popular."
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