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05/26/2005 12:03:54 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by ralphnev:
100% all the time
in for a penny in for a pound type of thing
though i would like a skip button on the voting pages |
There are arrows at the end of the voting scale. You can look at an image and not vote on it by clicking on those arrows. The images will pop up again though. Hope this helps!
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05/26/2005 12:07:52 PM · #27 |
| I vote 100% of the time as well. Unless I'm abducted or can't reach a computer I vote on each and every challenge as well. I think I've only missed voting on one or two challenges since I joined. |
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05/26/2005 12:10:55 PM · #28 |
Not enough, lately. I just can't seem to find the energy to go through the challenges lately.
Probably just a hiatus for now though.. what with summer here and everything, all my online activities tend to fade away in the summer.
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05/26/2005 12:34:45 PM · #29 |
I only vote on challenges that interest me, even though I didn't enter it myself, and I vote somwhere between 50-100%, and comment on most pictures I vote on.
I do have a life outside DPC, but it keeps getting harder to focus on that life since DPC demands so much of my time.. I havn't entered a challenge since the moods challenge few weeks ago, just havn't found the time to take pictures yet.. |
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05/26/2005 12:37:23 PM · #30 |
Originally posted by dahkota:
Originally posted by ralphnev:
100% all the time
in for a penny in for a pound type of thing
though i would like a skip button on the voting pages |
There are arrows at the end of the voting scale. You can look at an image and not vote on it by clicking on those arrows. The images will pop up again though. Hope this helps!
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aaaahhhhhhhh.... thankyou thankyou ..
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05/26/2005 12:46:05 PM · #31 |
I vote 100%, every time. My "sorting" vote takes me about an hour and a half max on a big challenge, sometimes less; this puts everyone in either 5 or 6 (my latest version of how I do it). If I'm pressed for time I stop there. Nobody gets worse than 5 or better than 6, and everyone gets one or the other.
If I have more time, I go into the 6 group and sort them upwards; I only do this if I have time to review EVERY entry in that group, so again I'm being "fair" to all group members. I almost always have time for this.
Finally, again if I have time I'll go back to the 5's group and review them as well.
I vary this procedure slightly in the initial pass-through, where I may take the occasional really compelling image and slot it directly into 8, and where I'll take really blah images, or totally off-topic images, and sort them into 4 from the start...
I almost always review my top-voted pictures (the 7's and up) on the night voting closes.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it....
Robt.
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05/26/2005 12:57:10 PM · #32 |
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05/26/2005 01:07:28 PM · #33 |
There is no other way to look at this. Voting is by far the most important contribution you can make as a member. Not to vote is to transfer the decision to others. I feel so obligated to this theme that if I do not have the time to vote than I will not enter a challenge.
We can all make many excuses and spend endless time in the forums and neglect the vote, but the strength of this community hangs highly on the vote.
Now, if you are an accomplished artist who is not here to learn but to dazzle the DPC populance, we thank you highly for the contribution of your inbred talent and yes, no need for an extraordinary talent to perform the mundane task of voting and on the few occasions that you choose to offer your golden nuggets of advise to us lesser souls. We are humble enough to carry this dead weight.
Otherwise, to belong to DPC and not vote is to weaken the very purpose for which the challenge exist.
Commenting is secondary in importance. The first thing we want to do is to vote so as to arrange the general place standing of the images. Think about it, the primary reason we are here is the challenge, so who would rise above their most intrinsic obligation. Whoever does short changes themselves and their fellow members.
So commenting is important but voting trumps. It makes no sense to vote and comment on 10% of the images. Better to vote the entire lot and comment on 2%.
I realize that time plays a role and many do not have enough. While this is true, a hard effort must be made to reach a workable formula because DPC suffers when the very members who make entries find it impossible to find the little time it takes to vote.
Personally, I vote on all challenges, whether I entered or not and then I attempt the hard challenge of commenting on at least 20% of the entries. Yes, I think fast and I type fast, but I always say that you learn as you go because you get to hone your senses. You are able to quicken the ability to judge and the ability to identify a better image. This can only have an uplifting effect on your own work. And what pity if you are not even aware of all the entries in a challenge only to be surprised at the winning images. Come on, like you, these folks work hard on their efforts...do they not deserve the 15 seconds of your time?
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05/26/2005 01:14:58 PM · #34 |
Originally posted by DanSig:
I do have a life outside DPC, but it keeps getting harder to focus on that life since DPC demands so much of my time.. I havn't entered a challenge since the moods challenge few weeks ago, just havn't found the time to take pictures yet.. |
Ditto on that, except it was triangles for me.
I always want to vote 100% of a challenge, and comment constructively on at least 20%. If I can't or don't feel like I can, I feel better to opt out of voting on that challenge. DPC is great, but demands alot of attention with sometimes 1000 or more images to vote on concurrently. Lately the challenge has been on me for time to acheive my normal daily work goals, let alone DPC.
Now theres a challenge.... TIME (has it been done before?) |
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05/26/2005 01:33:34 PM · #35 |
Not everyone has access to high speed internet. With a 40k connection, voting is a painfully slow process and therefore find myself doing very little voting.
Originally posted by graphicfunk:
... find the little time it takes to vote. ... |
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05/26/2005 02:16:35 PM · #36 |
Since finally getting high speed internet connection, I'm able to vote on 100% of entries in a challenge. If I start voting on a challenge that I did not enter, I will also vote for all.
Comments are really important and in the beginning I was a little reluctant thinking that I didn't have authority or knowhow to judge other people's photos. With time though I just drop my 10c worth and sort of write down what I'm thinking at the time and how I would have done it.
I have noticed some of the more advanced photographers and winners of the coveted ribbons don't bother to vote or to comment, this really makes me feel sad since some state that they just popped any old photo into the challenge last minute and oh! oh! just happened to check and it had won...not a nice thing to do, is it?
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