NEW Photography Choice Gallery & Voting System (BETA)

jonah794

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17 May 2010 - 1:28 PM

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Quote: It’ll be interesting to see an image appear in the Photography Choice gallery after picking up 30 aggregate ‘up’ votes only to see it removed by the next ‘down’ vote & then reappear etc etc!

Thinking that - people could just keep doing that on people's pictures for a joke.

franken (e2 Member)

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17 May 2010 - 1:29 PM

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Quote: Yes, it's all relative and dependant on individual judges, so.......the votes on here don't really mean anything do they

Not really, if you like an image and it works for you then how many votes it gets is not that important. ( to me anyhow) Although they are a guide of how others interpret your images.

Something that came to light a few weeks ago was as to how many people have you down as favourited and as to how they relate to votes on your uploads. I was surprised to find that I was favourited by 93 people but I've never had anything like that as votes on my uploads.

Ken

Martin54 (e2 Member)

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17 May 2010 - 1:29 PM

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[quote]I don't quite see the point of the new system. Voting a photo DOWN? If you don't like it - just don't vote, but don't dishearten somebody simply because they feel that the photo isn't good enough, by making them minus votes. Somebody who doesn't have a great photo will then end up on -4 votes, for example. How do you think that makes them feel
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I agree Jonah. There's a picture in the gallery from a new member, just joined today and so far its reached -3 votes. How is that encourage them to stay on the site?

If some people really don't want votes, just give them the option to turn them off, then everybody should be happy (well they won't as this is Epz, but....)

User_Removed

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17 May 2010 - 1:30 PM

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Also - has anyone noticed that your existing uploads are no longer able to receive votes under the current system..????

The proposed system is a BETA Davis - QED, the existing system remains the approved method.

So why have my images lost the ability to be voted on?

lobsterboy (Site Moderator)

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17 May 2010 - 1:31 PM

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Quote: This is an interesting one. I uploaded a picture this morning and decided to give the new system a go.
So far 50 viewings, 23 unique viewings, 7 comments and 0 votes.
It isn't a great picture so I suppose that as many people have voted it down as voted for it. As I said - interesting.

Its actually had 8 votes - 4 each way..but how would you know that?

I should think a lot of people are just playing with voting down at the moment.

User_Removed

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17 May 2010 - 1:33 PM

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Hmmmm... How Chris. When I look at another PF, the Vote button is gone.

barbarahirst (e2 Member)

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17 May 2010 - 1:35 PM

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It would have been usefull if we had been told about this new system of voting
Rather than it just happening !!
Barbs

ValSaxby (e2 Member)

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17 May 2010 - 1:37 PM

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If this is the way the voting system is going I would at least like to see how many + votes and how many - votes on an image.

Maybe voting should be linked to comments - so whichever way you vote you have to leave a comment. I am guilty of voting and running often due to lack of time - but maybe I shouldnt get away with using this as an excuse for not commenting.

I like to get votes on my shots but like to see comments/crits even more .......

Val