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10/26/2006 07:39:19 PM · #1
This may have been brought up before, but what about the suggestion that someone can not vote in a challenge in which they are entered?

With all the low scores of late, I think there may be a natural tendancy to vote low to help your own cause.

Do most folks enter every single challenge? I could see an issue for the more popular challenges...there may not be enough voters. Maybe if someone is entered in a particular challenge, then let him/her vote on only exactly 10% (both minimum and maximum) of the submissions?

Your thoughts?
10/26/2006 07:42:38 PM · #2
Hmmmm... I don't know. I have thought about this before. I think that a lot of people who do end up voting actually entered the challenge. They want to see what they're up against. I don't think there would be enough votes (or comments!!) if they were restricted on voting.
10/26/2006 07:47:14 PM · #3
If everyone is voting everyone else low, then it has no net effect. Same if just one person is voting every other shot but his own down. No overall effect.

I vote in every challenge and I enter most challenges. I suppose there are always exceptions, but i don't think people are purposely voting others down when they have a shot in the challenge. Part of me says people generally aren't so inclined, then the other cynical part of me says the stakes here simply aren't high enough to warrant it.
10/26/2006 07:59:46 PM · #4
I always thought that would be a good idea but what happens on a Free Study when there are 600 entrants. That would mean those 600 people couldn't vote. If that happens, there may not be many people voting.
10/26/2006 08:11:05 PM · #5
LOL, I usually only vote on a full challenge anymore if I have above a 6 in that challenge, and I usually make my base score a 6 for a decent but oherwise crappy picture. Lotso 10's in those challenges. ;)
10/26/2006 08:13:36 PM · #6
Originally posted by lesgainous:


With all the low scores of late, I think there may be a natural tendancy to vote low to help your own cause.

Your thoughts?


I am curiuos why you say there are more low ballers now then there was in the past. I think its about the same.

I think you need every vote available. The number of people that intentionally vote down photos is quite small, IMO.
10/26/2006 08:14:12 PM · #7
I guess I have faith that this type of thing doesn't happen or if it does it's so minimal that it has little effect.

I'm sure we all have are own biases that affect our scoring. Some are biased to technical aspects some are biased to the artistic. Some are biased toward or against sunsets, insects or flowers but I doubt many score others to improve their own score.

I would think it would show up in the statistics if it did occur. I know that speaking for my own mediocre stats they are usually pretty normally distributed and widely spread around the average score in the middle of the range. If many people were “low-balling” I think the normal distribution would be noticeably affected.
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