Originally Posted by MachNU
With circular logic, it still boils down to perception of people. The people with the bigger names will always get more traffic, which in turns elevates their name more. When this happens it takes traffic from the little guys threads, who like you said, may have hit a home run. Then eventually it falls off the page, going unnoticed. It will never change.
Hell, I will use you and myself as an example. If we both did a high end car to a close to same detailing package(granted I do not know your packages, but just say usual basic 95% correction package), then made threads, yours hands down would be much more traffic. Because your track record is amazing. You have much more information out there and your camera skills are much better than mine. People have seen more of your threads and have an idea to what they can expect in your thread. We both may have done the exact same quality of work, but mine might not be as flashy or crisp high quality pictures as yours. Meaning if they do go into mine, they will breeze right threw it.
I have said this many times before, I use an old D50, which is a start DSLR, with the start basic lens. I am not the most camera savvy. I do not know fancy angels or ways to pose cars after. I just know to get 4 corner shots, few interior and some sun shots. I try to stay straight to the point on what I did and what the outcome is. Which, it does affect the traffic my threads get and they tend to fall off onto the mass amount of pages, unless I respond to someones comment I might have missed.
Its the nature of the beast, those with less rapport, experience and years in the business, will always be held to a higher level.