Found this information in another team - something to think about....
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(Info came from a programmer who tested for a week to come up with the data)
· The treasury is broken down in five categories: views, clicks, comments, shares, and report
· viewing is worth 1 point
· clicking is worth .75 points
· comments are worth 2 points
· If you are a curator and comment you lose .01 points for each comment. This may not seem like a lot but if you have the same score as another treasury, you are the one bumped down. We also don't know how it may affect your treasury after 5 hours.
· If you are a feature only one of your comment counts as 2 points, after that you get no points even if you log in as a different shop. You are wasting your time.
· If you are neither, each comment you make is worth 2 points.
· Etsy has embedded a silent program in all of our computers even when we are not logged in they still know who we are every time we come on to their site. This means that even if we are logged out we cannot come back and try to have our views and clicks register, you still have to wait for the cool off period.
· You only have to click on one item to have it register. There is a one minute time delay for it to show up.
· There is a cool off period in the treasury, every 30 minutes you can go in and have your view register.
· This is the how it works for the first 5 hours of the creation of the treasury.
· The creation of the treasury includes the time it took to make the treasury.
· The first 5 hours is a grace period, you can only keep going up.
· You start out with 2,000 points.
· This point system is how they rank your hotness
· The top treasury on page 1 is around 5,000-6,000 points; the treasury on the top of page 2 is around 2,500-3,000 points.
· After 5 hours the math changes
· this change adds an outside pressure that we cannot see
· It seems that if your activity goes up from the last minute it is a positive pressure
· If your activity goes down it is a negative pressure
· If it stays the same it is a smaller negative pressure
· The amount of difference the pressure makes correlates with how big the difference is from the last minutes activities
· The hotter you are the bigger the pressure is between the differences this is true negative or positive.
· We will probably never know what the math is to this.
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A few things to note:
Double posting as a featured artist does nothing. It's pointless so don't waste your time.
Using a second account to post also does nothing.
Posting on your own treasury will take away your points and will not get you on the FP.
ONE click per person counts. The others do not.
Not sure if this is right but it is interesting all the same, I will be taking note to see if my treasuries semm to work this way.
