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08/04/2004 02:04:41 AM · #1 |
I think it is misleading to have the "Highest Ranked" photo list show your highest scores, rather than your highest places. The scores are really meaningless, if the average score for a challenge was a 4, but you got a 5, your percentage ranking would be much higher than if you recieved a 5 in a challenge with an average of 6.
Is there a reason the photos are not listed by highest percentage rather than highest score?
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08/04/2004 02:10:13 AM · #2 |
I'd rather show my highest scored, personally - seems more meaningful. They're better pictures, anyway - sometimes there's just a weak challenge.
On a related note, as long as we're whining, I'd rather show "selected portfolio entries" than recently-added ones.
And I'd like a pony. |
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08/04/2004 02:11:58 AM · #3 |
My guess is that when they originally wrote the code, there wasn't that much of a difference. : )
There's a lot of suggestions in line for when they are done with the Prints site update and can take up DPC revisions; this will be added if it's not already there : ) |
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08/04/2004 02:19:30 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by Malokata:
I'd rather show my highest scored, personally - seems more meaningful. They're better pictures, anyway - sometimes there's just a weak challenge.
On a related note, as long as we're whining, I'd rather show "selected portfolio entries" than recently-added ones.
And I'd like a pony. |
And, if Malokata gets his pony, I'd like to put in my request for a Ducati.
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08/04/2004 02:22:32 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by Malokata:
And I'd like a pony. |
Sorry, vicarious ponies and motorcycles only ...
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08/04/2004 04:19:08 AM · #6 |
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08/04/2004 04:25:08 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by airatic:
I think it is misleading to have the "Highest Ranked" photo list show your highest scores, rather than your highest places. The scores are really meaningless, ... |
Highest places are also meaningless. What about a challenge of 300 submissions compared to one of 25 submissions?
Percentile is perhaps the most accurate measure, although that's a reasonably new addition. I suspect score is just because in an older less pedantic site it was considered a reasonable measure, and as GeneralE said: it's all legacy. |
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08/04/2004 11:52:02 AM · #8 |
I think percentages was what I meant when I said places. Thanks Paul.
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08/04/2004 11:57:16 AM · #9 |
| Percentile is the way that I would judge whether I'm happy with my results or not...I agree that this should be the way that the 'highest ranked' are ordered. |
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08/04/2004 01:01:25 PM · #10 |
Good idea. So the three options are really: score, places, and percentile.
I think it should be made an option that each user can choose for themselves. For instance, many people's ribbon-winning photos are pushed off the top 5 by a non-ribbon-winning but higher-absolute-score challenge entry. Sometimes I think the ribbon winners just have special significance.
Also, is there a way to view all of a user's challenge entries in a thumbnail listing? Some users have entered hundreds of challenges and it would take me a long time to actually load each challenge entry page just to see what it looked like (dialup connections suck). |
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