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11/12/2007 06:01:04 PM · #1 |
Okay, with all this voting stuff going around I have seen people mention that they like to have rankings that go from 1-10. I was wondering if this is something that is suggested by the SC, or something people just happen to do. And is it something that I should maybe consider doing. Right now I just give them a rating. Then at the end I may make some adjustments while looking at the groupings by numbers, but I don't try to give out every number from 1-10. If there isn't a really bad shot then I won't have any 1s and if there isn't something that I think is just stellar then I won't have any 10s. Is this something I should change, should I be giving out numbers in each challenge in the entire range of 1-10? Thanks for your thoughts.
Whats one more voting question among all those threads out there?
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11/12/2007 06:13:14 PM · #2 |
Originally posted by travis_cooper:
...I don't try to give out every number from 1-10. If there isn't a really bad shot then I won't have any 1s and if there isn't something that I think is just stellar then I won't have any 10s. Is this something I should change, should I be giving out numbers in each challenge in the entire range of 1-10? ... |
I think yours is a sensible way of voting. I do the same.
What I wonder about is whether or not our votes might get thrown out by a site feature, if some algorythm reads voters like us as trolls? |
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11/12/2007 06:21:15 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by zeuszen:
Originally posted by travis_cooper:
...I don't try to give out every number from 1-10. If there isn't a really bad shot then I won't have any 1s and if there isn't something that I think is just stellar then I won't have any 10s. Is this something I should change, should I be giving out numbers in each challenge in the entire range of 1-10? ... |
I think yours is a sensible way of voting. I do the same.
What I wonder about is whether or not our votes might get thrown out by a site feature, if some algorythm reads voters like us as trolls? |
I would hope not, as I dole out very little or either of these scores. If indeed they did, then I fear I have wasted a lot of time voting.
Ray
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11/12/2007 06:21:57 PM · #4 |
| Ditto. Some challenges just have better photos than others, so sometimes I give multiple 10s and sometimes nothing higher than an 8 (and similarly on the other end). I also think this is what most people do. If you look at the history of challenges, the highest and lowest scores vary a lot from challenge to challenge. I don't think you'd see that if everyone deliberately tried to use the whole 1-10 scale in every challenge. |
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11/12/2007 06:23:24 PM · #5 |
I rate each photo on it's merits so in a challenge there may be no image that deserves a 1 and for that matter no image that deserves a 10.
Some use the scale so that 1 denotes the worst in the challenge and 10 the best. It's just another way of looking at it. |
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11/12/2007 06:26:12 PM · #6 |
Okay, at least from the first few responses it looks like I am doing it like other people are, I just have read that some people like to spread out the scores. I wonder what the algorithm for throwing out scores really is, I give a lot of the same number it seems, but I do have variety in my scores as well. It would be a shame if my scores were getting thrown out.
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11/12/2007 06:53:14 PM · #7 |
I tend to go the other way, voting using 1, 5 and 10
I'm just not subtle enough to break it down further than that - good, bad, or average. |
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11/12/2007 07:08:05 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by Gordon:
I tend to go the other way, voting using 1, 5 and 10
I'm just not subtle enough to break it down further than that - good, bad, or average. |
Increase your subtlety with a 1-10 scale using two decimal points. |
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11/12/2007 07:22:18 PM · #9 |
I vote pretty much on a bell curve with five at the center. It's never a perfect bell though. If I see a good shot that meets the challenge, it's a five. From there I consider technical aspects, how interesting the subject, difficulty of the set-up, etcetera. I then bump it one way or the other as needed. Plain average shots stay at five. Extraordinarily good or bad shots will also get a comment if I have the time to do so.
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11/12/2007 07:40:12 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by zeuszen:
Originally posted by travis_cooper:
...I don't try to give out every number from 1-10. If there isn't a really bad shot then I won't have any 1s and if there isn't something that I think is just stellar then I won't have any 10s. Is this something I should change, should I be giving out numbers in each challenge in the entire range of 1-10? ... |
I think yours is a sensible way of voting. I do the same.
What I wonder about is whether or not our votes might get thrown out by a site feature, if some algorythm reads voters like us as trolls? |
Sometimes I only vote even numbers.
Sometimes only odd.
Sometimes I vote only 4,5,6's.
Sometimes on from 5-10.
...and sometimes...
What do I care if my votes are thrown out? I cast them. It's not up to me to know if they count.
Sometimes I smile at the cashier.
Sometimes I don't.
It's not up to me to know what counts. |
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11/12/2007 07:46:07 PM · #11 |
I don't really pay attention to my distribution of scores, although I'll sometimes realize it's skewed one way or the other within a given challenge. For example, I really liked a lot of the shots in Scene It, whereas I was really bored by a lot of the shots in Popcorn. So the first one had a much higher average vote from me than the second.
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