Well, from the description of the giant squids (and how to become one) it says the lenses have to be exceptional.  Besides, I just wondered how lensranking fit into the whole scheme of things.  I know that the lower the number, the better the lensrank, but is there a shooting point?  For example, I only have 26 lenses but they all break 100,000. 
If lensrank doesn't matter, why is there lensranks?  I remember a saying from way back that goes "if winning doesn't matter, why do we keep score?"  Kind of the same premise.

Gotcha. Lensrank matters. We're all pretty competitive about it, for one, and as Thomas mentioned, it impacts the pay tier. But lensrank isn't the defining characteristic of a great lens, nor a requirement for Giant Squid. You could argue it should be, because is it truly a great lens if you have no traffic or audience for it? (I would say it can be a great lens; you just might have absolutely no SEO knowledge to help it get traffic. This is my excuse for the first five months I was building lenses. :-)

Janet21 wrote:

OT:  Susan, I love your new forum photo!

How did you create it?

Thank you dear! You mean you haven't gotten on the "face your manga" train yet? It's all the rage at Twitter and has a few people raging about it. Don't like that people changed their avatars, think it's childish looking, think that photos are better, etc. Got people very stirred up! Website is http://www.faceyourmanga.com - note that they send it to you by email and in the TOS is something about using your email to send stuff. I used an account that they can spam until the apocalypse for all I care. Just FYI, though. It was quite fun and probably looks more like me than my previous picture did. :-)

Love it Susan!
Janet, you're beating me to the punch.......as I was reading this thread I thought the same thing as you......but had to wait and read to the bottom before I was going to post.....the same thing as you

Great Job Thomas!