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The team at 52 Clix was funded by an unknown venture capitalist with an initial investment of 20 million dollars. We took all 20 million and created a research project whereby 100,000 monkeys sit in a room to come up with the greatest photo-related Web site name known to man. The project took nearly a decade, but the name 52 Clix emerged and we're stoked!

Okay, so maybe that isn't entirely true. The 52 in 52 Clix is the number of weeks in a year. Since our themes are posted weekly, this number seemed fitting. Initially, the plan was to be 52 Clicks, but the domain was taken at the time. We steamed ahead with Clix, which serendipitously lead to the quirky, fun name for our assignments, Clixies. We've since procured 52clicks.com and it redirects to the official site, 52clix.com.

PHOTOS
You retain all copyrights to your photos and 52 Clix does not keep your original photo on the site. If you delete your account from 52 Clix, all of your photos will be erased from the site. You must own the copyright to all photos you upload. By uploading to the site, 52 Clix reserves the right to display your images in connection with the Web site.

COMMENTS
You are responsible for, and maintain ownership to, all of your photo comments. If you delete your account from 52 Clix, all of your comments will be erased from the site.

SCORES
52 Clix reserves the right to maintain the scoring made by all members even after an account has been deleted.

PROFILE
You are responsible for, and maintain ownership to, all of your profile information. If you delete your account from 52 Clix, all of your profile information will be erased from the site.

Click the "Create Assignment" button found on the home page or on the right-hand column of some pages. You may also click "My Clix" in the navigation links at the top of the page. Then click "Create a Clixie" on the left-hand navigation.

Browse the Clixies that are submitting by clicking the "Clixies" link in the site's top navigation. To upload a photo, click the green "Submit Now" button next to a Clixie's name.

Resize your photo in a image editing program like Photoshop to the exact size we use on our Web site. The width must be exactly 388 pixels or the height must be exactly 362 pixels. Make sure the file size is no bigger than 90k and then upload to our site. We will post the photo exactly as you saved it.

We have tested 52Clix.com on IE 6 & 7, Firefox 2 & 3 for Windows and Mac and Safari for Mac. We do not officially support any other browser, such as Opera, at this time.

If a Clixie is Friends-Only for photo submissions and photo scoring, only friends of that member can see that assignment. Also, any photo submitted to the Friends-Only assignment will only be visible to the friends of the member who created the Clixie.

Our upload tool requires Java. Make sure Javascript is turned on.

If you continue to have trouble uploading, try using our Simple Uploader. Click the link "Simple Uploader" below the upload box. You must resize your photos yourself if you use the Simple Uploader.

During the 1-week scoring period for Clixies, members score others' photos. The raw average of the scoring is shown after the scoring period ends. However, the photos are sorted according to a Fairness Algorithm that 52 Clix came up with, which partly includes the raw scoring average. This means a photo that displays a lower score may appear ahead of a photo with a higher score.

My Stats gives you an overview of your activities on 52 Clix. Medals are awarded for Rank, Participation and Generosity. The medals are platinum, gold, silver and bronze. Rank is your photo popularity ranking and is determined by how others score your photos and otherwise act positively towards your photos. Participation is how often you submit a photo per week since you joined 52 Clix. Finally, Generosity is how often you score other members' photos.

Presently, only you can see your stats. However, we plan to place the medals on your public member profile page soon.

Points are a way of highlighting the best 52 Clix members! You earn points by interacting with the site, such as uploading and scoring photos, creating Clixies and more. In the future, points will allow you to unlock rewards on the site.

Your points will also go down if you engage in behavior that isn't conducive to a positive 52 Clix community.

We give you the option to keep the photographer a secret while scoring. Sometimes if you see a photo by your friend, you might be inclined to score the photo higher. However, if there's an awesome photo and you want to know who took it or check out other photos by that member, you just have to click "show the photographer."

You may delete your account from 52 Clix by clicking the "Delete my account" link found in "my account" at the top right of every page on 52 Clix.

Deleting your account will remove your profile, photos, compliments, comments and private messages entirely from 52 Clix. You control your own data at all times.

52 Clix is a photo assignment site. Think of it as motivation to take new pictures and share your photos with others. Every Monday, new assignments created by 52 Clix and its members begin. Each assignment spends one week:

1. accepting photo submissions by members;
2. scoring the members' photos; and
3. showing the scoring results.

Those are the basics. In addition to creating and participating in assignments, you can make friends and create Friends-Only assignments, comment on members' photos, send photo compliments, save your favorite photos and members and more!

Everything on 52 Clix was conceived, designed and coded by Ryan Gillespie. Ryan has been developing Web sites and applications for over 10 years. He's based out of San Francisco, shoots with a Canon 20D DSLR and his favorite photographer is Stephen Shore.

General inquiries for 52 Clix: info@52clix.com

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