154 votes... and a 5.5000 score!

01/09/2003 11:28:24 AM · #1

I love being average. Makes me feel so... average.

Don't you love it when your vote count changes by one but your score drops like a whole tenth? Gives me yarm and fuzzy feelings in my tummy.

That is all.

on edit: yarm = warm

Message edited by author 2003-01-09 11:29:06.

magnetic9999

Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 EX Aspherical DF for Canon

01/09/2003 11:29:35 AM · #2

Well, if it's not the member's challenge, maybe that vote will be eradicated by the 'bump script', sunday night.

bcncrazy

Sony DSC-S50

01/09/2003 12:11:06 PM · #3

Hello!

I have a little question, what means "bump script"?
Sorry, but my english is not goog.

Alexis

FranziskaLang

Nikon D100

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Nikon

01/09/2003 12:31:24 PM · #4

doesn't this happen for the member challenge, too?

Originally posted by magnetic9999:

Well, if it's not the member's challenge, maybe that vote will be eradicated by the 'bump script', sunday night.

FranziskaLang

Nikon D100

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Nikon

01/09/2003 12:32:25 PM · #5

the "bump" script is the one that throws out votes from voters that show strange patterns, e.g., all 1s and 2s and the like. usually (but not always) people's scores get a little "bump" up. :)

Originally posted by bcncrazy:

Hello!

I have a little question, what means "bump script"?
Sorry, but my english is not goog.

Alexis

Konador

Canon EOS-500D Rebel T1i

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS

01/09/2003 12:51:57 PM · #6

Originally posted by franziska lang:

doesn't this happen for the member challenge, too?

Yes, I'm pretty sure it does

Message edited by author 2003-01-09 12:54:33.

imagesloyola

01/09/2003 01:18:04 PM · #7

hmmm..my score? for the first 5o voters, my score is 6.7, then i tried to monitor it. after 100 voters my scored drop to 6.3, then as of now, after 168 voters, my score still dropping..6.1, but i got little consolations, i recvd 16 comments..to all voters who posted their comments, thank you so much, its highly appreciated.

01/09/2003 02:50:13 PM · #8

What surprise me that there is a kind of wave pattern:
My vote average also always starts high, then decrease and rises again every day. The oszillation gets of course less and less over the course of the week.
When I have the first look in the morning at about 3 am EST (I'm living in Germany) votes tend to decrease until 8 am EST, remain steady for some hour and then start to rise from about 3 am until the next morning.
Has anybody else noticed this behaviour too?

bod

01/09/2003 03:02:48 PM · #9

Originally posted by Harz_Joerg:

Has anybody else noticed this behaviour too?

Oh yes, especially when a shot contains something to tie it to England/Europe. My first entry contained Â£20 notes and would rise steadily during the day before dropping like a brick overnight. Big Football Woman did the same but to a lesser extent.

I've also had it happen the opposite way round on other shots, and had some shots barely move all week.

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

01/09/2003 03:15:26 PM · #10

Maybe we need someone working in statistics who can work out an in-depth voter profile with respect to location, gender, were (work, home) and when (night, day) he votes. Could be very interesting to see if female California voters voting at work vote higher then male Portuguese home-voter during the night.

But what should this be good for?!

justine

Canon EOS-50D

01/09/2003 03:16:49 PM · #11

Harz_Joerg

GeneralE

Canon PowerShot S3 IS

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

01/09/2003 03:29:25 PM · #12

Originally posted by Harz_Joerg:

Or list votes by age-bracket...

FranziskaLang

Nikon D100

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Nikon

01/09/2003 03:38:15 PM · #13

can we have customizable grouping criteria? ;)

01/09/2003 03:49:44 PM · #14

Originally posted by franziska lang:

can we have customizable grouping criteria? ;)

Now I know what the statistic is good for: we can determine everybody's "votability" according to the group he/she belongs, e.g. because it's know that male Ohio voters of age 23.5 vote during the night way to low, they are either kicked out or their votes are multiplied by a factor, so they become average.

And being average is all we want be, am I right?

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

01/09/2003 04:05:12 PM · #15

Through the "Medula Oblongata Theory", based on the fourth white paper by Professor Jansen Hefferstien of Ithica University, we should be able to modify our existing algorithm to weed out people with enlarged facial appendages and desensitized Quanzars (the same region of the brain that amplifies impulses that trigger smiles). You see, it's my guess that my photos are consistently being voted down by "snotty" photographers without a sense of humor.

I can't lose!

GeneralE

Canon PowerShot S3 IS

01/09/2003 04:24:03 PM · #16

I think we need to start correlating votes with Sunspot activity. Their activity has long been linked to abberant behavior, and under conditions of a Solar Flare our electronic assistant brains might have a seizure too...

01/09/2003 04:59:20 PM · #17

Well bamaster,
You can't hide behind your theoretical talk and point the finger to other innocent voters!
During the last two hour I quickly hacked the DPC-server and made up the statistics and groups!
And it doesn't look too good for you:
either you move further north, at least to Wyoming
or
you make yourself 3.42 years younger
or
(probably the easiest) change your gender.
It's up to you!

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

01/09/2003 05:23:23 PM · #18

Originally posted by Harz_Joerg:

...
or (probably the easiest) change your gender. It's up to you!

Ah yes, the infamous boob-curve. It is said in the songs of third world countries that it is in the boob where gifts of high votes can be had. I considered a wonder bra just for DPC. But alas, the voters see through the charade. I've even started to lisp... without success. I'm a fraud.

johnmk

Ricoh Caplio RR1

01/09/2003 05:26:36 PM · #19

If it is of any consolation: Bamaster's theoretical talk is utter nonsense (and not even correctly spelled at that). I should know, I lecture on Physiology of the medulla oblongata and other brain structures. He is just pulling your leg.

01/09/2003 05:47:08 PM · #20

Originally posted by johnmk:

Of course I wrote a paper on the effect of otter (as opposd to utter) nonsense on those with enlarged noses. It appears, in a study conducted over a summer internship, that the human nose is highly sensitive to the pelt of sea otters, genus Camellia Sinensis. So when the common otter shakes vigorously, and nonsensely, the 'twining' which is the equivalent of a cat's dander, triggers a tragically skewed voting pattern on my photos.

Therefore I stand resolved... that people with big noses and without a sense of humor vote my photos down.

Blah, who am I kidding? The jig is up! I've been debunked by the local expert!

magnetic9999

Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 EX Aspherical DF for Canon

01/09/2003 07:33:05 PM · #21

LOLOLOLOL

Originally posted by Harz_Joerg:

magnetic9999