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11/05/2014 11:30:11 AM · #26 |
8Originally posted by hahn23:
Originally posted by MAK:
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LOL, that almost makes we actually WANT to go vote & comment on the lot... |
Good for you! Go for it!
I didn't submit a below average image, but the voters, so far, are targeting it for their low end votes. Participation here has lost its appeal to me. |
You just had back to back top 10s. |
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11/05/2014 11:44:16 AM · #27 |
Originally posted by hahn23:
Votes: 16
Views: 30
Avg Vote: 5.6250
Comments: 0
I won't be voting or commenting on images at DPC. |
16 votes is a very small sample. |
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11/05/2014 11:57:16 AM · #28 |
Originally posted by nygold:
I would have an 8+ right now but I couldn't get my bluejay to smile. :)
Sorry Wendy it's just a joke.
Votes: 14
Views: 34
Avg Vote: 5.5000
Comments: 1 |
Drat -- I thought you were serious!! I was going to send you the instructions on how to make a bird smile. ;) |
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11/05/2014 11:59:43 AM · #29 |
Originally posted by vawendy:
Drat -- I thought you were serious!! I was going to send you the instructions on how to make a bird smile. ;) |
Send them to me!! |
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11/05/2014 12:05:44 PM · #30 |
Originally posted by Omega_Donkey:
Originally posted by vawendy:
Drat -- I thought you were serious!! I was going to send you the instructions on how to make a bird smile. ;) |
Send them to me!! |
Too late -- I just erased them since they weren't needed… Sorry! |
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11/05/2014 12:10:59 PM · #31 |
Originally posted by vawendy:
Originally posted by Omega_Donkey:
Originally posted by vawendy:
Drat -- I thought you were serious!! I was going to send you the instructions on how to make a bird smile. ;) |
Send them to me!! |
Too late -- I just erased them since they weren't needed… Sorry! |
Dangit!! Back to the drawing board... |
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11/05/2014 12:15:29 PM · #32 |
Originally posted by Omega_Donkey:
Originally posted by vawendy:
Originally posted by Omega_Donkey:
Originally posted by vawendy:
Drat -- I thought you were serious!! I was going to send you the instructions on how to make a bird smile. ;) |
Send them to me!! |
Too late -- I just erased them since they weren't needed… Sorry! |
Dangit!! Back to the drawing board... |
I still have my notes on how to make them to the cha cha slide... |
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11/05/2014 12:20:24 PM · #33 |
Originally posted by tanguera:
8Originally posted by hahn23:
Originally posted by MAK:
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LOL, that almost makes we actually WANT to go vote & comment on the lot... |
Good for you! Go for it!
I didn't submit a below average image, but the voters, so far, are targeting it for their low end votes. Participation here has lost its appeal to me. |
You just had back to back top 10s. |
It's a sports thing. To be legitimately considered a dynasty you've got to win three in a row. Two is nice, but not really a dynasty. You have to admit, the Hahn Dynasty would've been pretty cool. Though we can't completely rule it out yet. It's early. |
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11/05/2014 12:36:02 PM · #34 |
Here's a score (that is what this thread is for isn't it?). :-)
Votes: 22
Views: 45
Avg Vote: 5.9091
Comments: 0 |
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11/05/2014 12:38:21 PM · #35 |
Votes: 26
Views: 57
Avg Vote: 6.2308
Comments: 1
Favorites: 0
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11/05/2014 01:02:16 PM · #36 |
Purty darn thrilled with this score with so many great images in this challenge. Will vote later when I get on the home computer.
Votes: 31
Views: 58
Avg Vote: 6.8710
Comments: 1 |
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11/05/2014 01:15:10 PM · #37 |
| It was over six for a moment. And then, it wasn't. |
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11/05/2014 01:43:00 PM · #38 |
There I was, dreaming away, then PUFF!
....all my dreams were blown away in two votes.
Still, might make it to my top five..... |
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11/05/2014 01:45:29 PM · #39 |
Originally posted by Pangurban:
There I was, dreaming away, then PUFF!
....all my dreams were blown away in two votes.
Still, might make it to my top five..... |
Indeed, the last few voters have been less than kind. |
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11/05/2014 02:19:49 PM · #40 |
Originally posted by hahn23:
Originally posted by MAK:
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LOL, that almost makes we actually WANT to go vote & comment on the lot... |
Good for you! Go for it!
I didn't submit a below average image, but the voters, so far, are targeting it for their low end votes. Participation here has lost its appeal to me. |
I faced two problems with selecting an image for this challenge...
1. The bulk of my lifetime images were converted to DNG format immediately and so, should I become lucky enough to top 5 in the challenge I would be DQ'd immediately.
2. I've already had the opportunity to "go into my portfolio" twice in the 6 months I've been a member, so what little I had had been mined already.
Given the level of stuff that comes out for these I was debating using one of the DNG-based images anyway figuring it would at least score well, and if I got DQ'd it would be my first, so no harm, no foul. But, I instead decided to go with what I consider to be a really good, well shot and well processed image (one I've sold multiple copies of at a friend's gallery), but one I knew lacked the "wow factor" that seems to be required for most of the less thoughtful voters here to take a pause and actually look at it rather than giving it a knee-jerk 3-to-5 or throwing an uncommented 1 or 2 at it because "Holy crap, not another flower/cat/kid/still-life - how many of these do I have to look at?!" I was pleased as heck this morning as it was at 6.5 with almost 20 votes. I thought, "Wow, maybe I'm wrong about this place?!"
I wasn't wrong. 13 votes later and it's barely a 6.
Now, I suspect had this been in a subject-specific challenge it wouldn't have suffered thusly. But there seems to be something about this place that grades everything on a curve ("I can't possibly give out five 10's in a challenge - I don't think I've given out five 10's in the last ten challenges combined!!"), so 8's will be 5's and 6's in this, and that can be disheartening as hell. I almost walked several times because of it. But I'm over it, though I suspect I will be avoiding "Free Study" types from now on because, frankly, while I've been doing very well of late, better work has suffered at the hands of callous voting, and it does piss one off.
So yeah, Richard, I feel your pain.
Message edited by author 2014-11-05 14:20:47. |
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11/05/2014 02:26:49 PM · #41 |
| I've also noticed what I've come to call "revenge voting". When big challenges finally release, people wake up to find that their dreams of high scores have been dashed on the rocks, so they go to check out what could possibly be doing better than theirs and they play General Sherman and burn down everything in sight. I find this happens between 9AM and 12PM ET on Free Study and big challenge release days like today when a good many of us are getting into work and checking this place. It happens far less predictably on other days, but on the morning of the 1st of the month, duck and cover. |
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11/05/2014 02:34:50 PM · #42 |
Originally posted by Abra:
A rather nice start but I don't really expect this to hold. I'll post it while I've got it though.
Votes: 10
Views: 22
Avg Vote: 6.7000
Comments: 0 |
Votes: 38
Views: 70
Avg Vote: 6.1842
Comments: 1
Favorites: 0
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11/05/2014 02:43:15 PM · #43 |
Originally posted by glad2badad:
Here's a score (that is what this thread is for isn't it?). :-)
Votes: 22
Views: 45
Avg Vote: 5.9091
Comments: 0 |
Votes: 29
Views: 56
Avg Vote: 5.8621
Comments: 0 |
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11/05/2014 02:55:51 PM · #44 |
Originally posted by backdoorhippie:
I've also noticed what I've come to call "revenge voting"... |
Totally explains my average given so far of 7.00 versus my current score of 4.79
:) (We don't all suck as voters, even when we can't score with our own work.)
Message edited by author 2014-11-05 15:00:40. |
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11/05/2014 02:59:17 PM · #45 |
| Started out this morning at 6.8. Down to 6.3 already. |
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11/05/2014 03:10:46 PM · #46 |
Originally posted by ArnaMarie:
Okay, everyone stop voting now! Hehe...
Votes: 9
Views: 24
Avg Vote: 6.6667
Comments: 0
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Votes: 32
Views: 64
Avg Vote: 5.8750
Comments: 1
I said stop voting! :) Just kidding, keep it up! I'm sure I deserve my final score, whatever it may be. My entry is not THE best, but it is MY best, so I'm still excited. I'm not even close to being in the same league as most of you guys, but I still enjoy competing alongside you and sometimes get your feedback. Who knows, maybe one day... :)
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11/05/2014 04:15:58 PM · #47 |
Votes: 33
Views: 70
Avg Vote: 6.2424
Comments: 2
The lowballers finally found mine. lol |
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11/05/2014 04:41:01 PM · #48 |
Originally posted by Melethia:
**puffs out chest with pride** I have the brown!!!
Votes: 13
Views: 33
Avg Vote: 4.6154
Comments: 0
Go me!!
(Quietly goes off to cry in the corner now...)
Good luck everyone! I'm going to try to comment on at least half. If I can't do well, at least I can encourage others, yes? |
I'm currently on 5.2222. Very disappointed. Think I'll make myself feel better by trying to comment on at least half too. |
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11/05/2014 05:01:45 PM · #49 |
You have rated 265 of 265 images (100%) in this challenge.
You have commented on 46 images (17%) in this challenge.
You have given an average score of 6.5736.
Wow! There is some really great work in that gallery!
I gave two 10s.
ten 9s.
thirty-six 8s.
and a bunch of 7s.
What a pleasure that was to view!
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11/05/2014 05:20:22 PM · #50 |
Originally posted by ArnaMarie:
[quote=ArnaMarie] I'm sure I deserve my final score, whatever it may be. My entry is not THE best, but it is MY best, so I'm still excited. I'm not even close to being in the same league as most of you guys, but I still enjoy competing alongside you and sometimes get your feedback. Who knows, maybe one day... :) |
What a refreshing attitude! I remember feeling this way when I started. Hold onto this feeling as long as you can. |
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