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 05/07/2012 06:27:28 PM · #51
Originally posted by HarveyG:
Started at 6.2 and now below 5
Voter turnout has also been pretty piss poor the past few weeks...more enries than voters...


i feel your pain... down a full point from my 6.6 in the wee hours this AM

;-(

-m
 05/07/2012 06:58:11 PM · #52
Originally posted by CJinCA:
Originally posted by knikki:
I entered my first challenge less than a week ago - I have to be honest, I doubt there will be many more - people are very cruel. I think many of y'all forget that you started where us newbies are at - try to be a little helpful and a little less, well, unconstructive and mean.


Nikki, sorry you're having a negative experience here. There are many very nice helpful people here, but you will have to learn to ignore the mean ones. The voting on challenges seems harsher than normal lately to me and, like many others posting here, I am scoring a bit below where I thought my entry would score too.

If you want help with you entries you can post a thread asking for some input before submitting and people will gladly volunteer to help you.

Good Luck!


knikki- Don't let them get you down. CJinCA said it perfectly. You will find more helpful folks on here than malicious. I won't name any names but there are a few on here that come across as....well......dicks. No other way to put it. If I don't say names in here I won't get in trouble because the few that I am talking about or usually oblivious and think they are being helpful. They live in there own world where they are smarter than everyone. That being said I can't wait to see your comments because there are a lot of members on this site that probably know who you are talking about without even calling them out.

Either that or you are extremely sensitive. Seems like you dove in head first though. You've waited a few months but through 4 entries in all at once. Good luck and congrats on the feet first jump into entering.
 05/07/2012 07:19:25 PM · #53
I was doing rather poorly then very briefly entered the sixes but I've gone crashing back down again and landed with a thud.

05/07/2012 11:57:36 PM · #54
Originally posted by knikki:
I entered my first challenge less than a week ago - I have to be honest, I doubt there will be many more - people are very cruel. I think many of y'all forget that you started where us newbies are at - try to be a little helpful and a little less, well, unconstructive and mean.


First off, don't give up. I doubt anyone here is being "mean" or "cruel" deliberately. They may be criticizing your photo and it may deserve it (or it may not), but they don't know your photo from anyone else's.

Secondly, this is a competition. You should not expect to learn your skills in a competition. You can definitely learn from competing, no doubt and even the folks in Iceland probably learn something from their entries here from time to time. However, it's still a competition. If you have a member account, you have a workshop area and can upload photos there and share them in the forums and get constructive advice, if all you're after is learning and getting better.

Someone does not walk onto a high level football, baseball, soccer, whatever field and expect to do as well as the ones who have been at it a long time. You learn in a proper forum and work your up and put your skills to test in competition.

All that said, enter away. You should. But likewise you should not expect coddling from everyone to "help you learn". A competition just isn't the venue for instruction.

Learning, yes. Instruction, no. Have a thick skin.

Look at photos that win or score well and compare them objectively to your own. Learn why their photo was better than yours. Read up on those technique or ask the photographer directly. There aren't too many here who are out and out jerks and nearly everyone I've dealt with here has been quite helpful even if we don't see eye to eye on everything.

Like others have said, you can get help before submitting. As you build relationships here, you'll have a stable of go to people who will tell it to you straight... to help you, not discourage you.
 05/08/2012 01:11:01 PM · #55
lol, i m a newb... wrote it in the wrong thread.

Best,

Devinder

Message edited by author 2012-05-08 13:16:15.
 05/08/2012 02:44:02 PM · #56
Dropped .2 this afternoon. :(
 05/08/2012 03:21:20 PM · #57
24 hours

05/08/2012 03:47:38 PM · #58
Votes: 47
Views: 93
Avg Vote: 6.1277
Comments: 0

I am not unhappy with the score, but the comment column is leaving me feel a little EMPTY inside...
 05/08/2012 03:52:17 PM · #59
Originally posted by Purple_Girl:
I was doing rather poorly then very briefly entered the sixes but I've gone crashing back down again and landed with a thud.

Lucky you had that thud, you might have landed on your anything...
 05/08/2012 05:56:31 PM · #60
Originally posted by klkitchens:
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All that said, enter away. You should. But likewise you should not expect coddling from everyone to "help you learn". A competition just isn't the venue for instruction.

Learning, yes. Instruction, no. Have a thick skin.



I'm not looking to be coddled, and trust me, I appreciate criticism more than most - but saying to someone just starting out "You've got no eye for it, find another hobby" That's f&cKing mean.

Thank you to everyone else for the feedback and reality check. And to the other guy - you know who you are - you will one day take that comment back. I promise you that. But you'll still be a D%ckhead!
 05/08/2012 06:00:23 PM · #61
Originally posted by knikki:
Originally posted by klkitchens:
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All that said, enter away. You should. But likewise you should not expect coddling from everyone to "help you learn". A competition just isn't the venue for instruction.

Learning, yes. Instruction, no. Have a thick skin.



I'm not looking to be coddled, and trust me, I appreciate criticism more than most - but saying to someone just starting out "You've got no eye for it, find another hobby" That's f&cKing mean.

Thank you to everyone else for the feedback and reality check. And to the other guy - you know who you are - you will one day take that comment back. I promise you that. But you'll still be a D%ckhead!


That's the type of comment that you should report to the SC. That's definitely not in the spirit of this site. If you look at the comment, there is a "report post" button on the right.

I highly recommend you use it, and just tell the SC that you're new here, and that the person is giving DPC a bad reputation.
 05/08/2012 06:13:22 PM · #62
Originally posted by knikki:
Originally posted by klkitchens:
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All that said, enter away. You should. But likewise you should not expect coddling from everyone to "help you learn". A competition just isn't the venue for instruction.

Learning, yes. Instruction, no. Have a thick skin.



I'm not looking to be coddled, and trust me, I appreciate criticism more than most - but saying to someone just starting out "You've got no eye for it, find another hobby" That's f&cKing mean.

Thank you to everyone else for the feedback and reality check. And to the other guy - you know who you are - you will one day take that comment back. I promise you that. But you'll still be a D%ckhead!
That's nasty! I have never seen a comment like that! Report it to SC and ignore. All your other comments are positive and you even got one from Paul!
 05/08/2012 06:15:26 PM · #63
Originally posted by MargaretN:
you even got one from Paul!


I know. Holy crap.

I swear I won't whine again.

Honest.
 05/08/2012 06:19:10 PM · #64
Originally posted by knikki:
Originally posted by klkitchens:
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All that said, enter away. You should. But likewise you should not expect coddling from everyone to "help you learn". A competition just isn't the venue for instruction.

Learning, yes. Instruction, no. Have a thick skin.



I'm not looking to be coddled, and trust me, I appreciate criticism more than most - but saying to someone just starting out "You've got no eye for it, find another hobby" That's f&cKing mean.

Thank you to everyone else for the feedback and reality check. And to the other guy - you know who you are - you will one day take that comment back. I promise you that. But you'll still be a D%ckhead!


WOW!

Well, like I said... not everyone here is like that, but yes that is totally mean and out of line.

Yowza.
 05/08/2012 08:21:44 PM · #65
Originally posted by knikki:


I'm not looking to be coddled, and trust me, I appreciate criticism more than most - but saying to someone just starting out "You've got no eye for it, find another hobby" That's f&cKing mean.

Thank you to everyone else for the feedback and reality check. And to the other guy - you know who you are - you will one day take that comment back. I promise you that. But you'll still be a D%ckhead!


Nikki, that kind of comment seems to me is against the rules of the site so definitely report it NOW! Here are the voting rules - I bolded the word I think violates the rules

You may not:

give an entry a lower score because you believe it violates the Challenge Rules.
recommend an entry for disqualification for not meeting the challenge.
vote on an entry based on its server-generated thumbnail.
vote on your own entry.
vote in a manner that suggests an intent to disrupt the voting system.
offer or cast biased votes for any other user.
offer slanderous, rude, profane or inflammatory comments.
abuse the anonymous commenting feature in any way.
discuss any entry in the forums while voting is in progress.
hold more than one DPChallenge account.
vote from another userĂ¢€™s DPChallenge account.
attempt to alter the point totals for any entry in any way.

05/09/2012 08:49:08 AM · #66

Yes, I reported it.

Yes, he took it back.

Yes, he's still a ..... member.

Thanks everybody for letting me rant and setting me straight about this being abnormal. I'm looking forward to the challenges (and I mean that emotionally as well as literally) ahead!
 05/09/2012 09:45:37 AM · #67
I've seen worse comments and given nastier ones.... Albeit to only one member who does the same to mine and it's only in jest as we compare notes before a challenge haha, maybe it was said in jest thinking it was a friend of theirs?

We'll have to wait and see...
 05/09/2012 09:57:04 AM · #68
Originally posted by CJinCA:


Nikki, that kind of comment seems to me is against the rules of the site so definitely report it NOW! Here are the voting rules - I bolded the word I think violates the rules

You may not:

give an entry a lower score because you believe it violates the Challenge Rules.
recommend an entry for disqualification for not meeting the challenge.
vote on an entry based on its server-generated thumbnail.
vote on your own entry.
vote in a manner that suggests an intent to disrupt the voting system.
offer or cast biased votes for any other user.
offer slanderous, rude, profane or inflammatory comments.
abuse the anonymous commenting feature in any way.
discuss any entry in the forums while voting is in progress.
hold more than one DPChallenge account.
vote from another userĂ¢€™s DPChallenge account.
attempt to alter the point totals for any entry in any way.


I am left wishing that Voters would reread ALL those Voting Rules

05/09/2012 11:37:13 AM · #69
Originally posted by Giles_uk:
I've seen worse comments and given nastier ones.... Albeit to only one member who does the same to mine and it's only in jest as we compare notes before a challenge haha, maybe it was said in jest thinking it was a friend of theirs?

We'll have to wait and see...


But would you make that kind of a remark unless you absolutely knew that it was directed at your "friend"? Wouldn't you be embarrassed and apologetic if you made that remark to a stranger? Why take the chance of appearing rude/mean and hurting the feelings of a stranger? Giving honest critique is a lot different than being rude/mean. Why do people feel the need to be so snarky? We are supposed to be adults - that comment to Nikki sounds like the comment of an immature kid. I hope whoever made that comment would privately apologize to Nikki and change the comment to a kinder, honest critique.
 05/09/2012 11:43:22 AM · #70
Back to scores... I cannot get traction above 5.5 to save my life... Up and down, up and down... this is a 6 photo for sure...
 05/09/2012 12:05:47 PM · #71
If Kevin's is definitely a 6, then I am quite sure mine is a 7+. I am hopefully headed for a tiny violin, though. Happy with that!
 05/09/2012 12:08:46 PM · #72
Originally posted by Melethia:
If Kevin's is definitely a 6, then I am quite sure mine is a 7+. I am hopefully headed for a tiny violin, though. Happy with that!


Wow... so you're saying you're a 1+ point better photographer than me? Thanks, I think?
 05/09/2012 12:15:36 PM · #73
Heh! Saying the voters are under appreciating mine by at least a full point. Or more!
 05/09/2012 12:17:12 PM · #74
Votes: 54
Views: 130
Avg Vote: 3.4259
Comments: 4

Pfffft So much for artistic interpretation
 05/09/2012 12:25:04 PM · #75
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