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11/01/2004 05:48:18 PM · #1 |
In the current thread I got involved in a little side topic of measuring the challenges - I suggested to look at the votes/submission and comments/submisison ratios. I found that all the necessary data to pull these numbers on the Challenge History Page. Since I can't construct an HTML table in forum code, here are my results:
My belief is that most members would tend to rate a challenge in which there were a higher number of comments/submission as more satisfying than one with less. After all, the only reward we get here is the recognition of our peers!
The last two columns are for pre 1/1/93 and post 1/1/93 challenges - there appears to be a slow decline in the number of comments/submission which, in my opinion, is not desirable. We are seeing more submissions but less participation in the form of feedback - both in voting and commenting.
The Master's Challenge obviously stands out as generating a huge increase in the number of votes and comments per submission. But, argueably, the Masters already tend to be the more satisfied members in terms of getting lots of comments so this may not increase user satisfaction on a broad basis.
I would suggest, that as an experiment, a "Not so masterful" challenge be held to see if the comment/submission ratio can be not only raised a little, but also spread them around a bit more. I think that would tend to increase user satisfaction more than anything. IF, of course, a non-Master challenge would generate an increased level of comments. That's why I'd suggest it as an experiment.
Anyway - I obviously have too much time on my hands!
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11/01/2004 05:55:12 PM · #2 |
I'd consider the fact that better photographs tend to generate more comments. There are other types of photographs that generate comments to, usually with a controversial subject, but in general good picture prompt comments.
Also, with a rapidly increasing pool of images, and perhaps not such a consequent increase in voters/ commenters, there are more images to get commented upon, by roughly the same number of commentors.
Of course, I don't have figures for the number of unique people providing comments per challenge, but I'm guessing it isn't rising as quickly as the number of entries.
Not entirely convinced that the quality per challenge is rising either, given that we've just had the lowest scoring challenge ever, a week or so ago - this also doesn't encourage lots of comments, if you assume the overall entry quality is dropping - not sure if you factored that in or looked at that ?
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11/01/2004 06:00:37 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by Gordon:
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Also, with a rapidly increasing pool of images, and perhaps not such a consequent increase in voters/ commenters, there are more images to get commented upon, by roughly the same number of commentors.
Of course, I don't have figures for the number of unique people providing comments per challenge, but I'm guessing it isn't rising as quickly as the number of entries.
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I think it's fair to assume that there would be the same proportion of commenters to voters two years ago as now - people, on average, don't tend to change.
Originally posted by Gordon:
Not entirely convinced that the quality per challenge is rising either, given that we've just had the lowest scoring challenge ever, a week or so ago - this also doesn't encourage lots of comments, if you assume the overall entry quality is dropping - not sure if you factored that in or looked at that ? |
I have made no effort to judge the "quality" of the photos - didn't look at the scores at all, just the number of entries/votes/comments. I generally get more out of a challenge when I have a photo that gets more comments rather than a higher score. |
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11/01/2004 06:04:18 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by joebok:
I think it's fair to assume that there would be the same proportion of commenters to voters two years ago as now - people, on average, don't tend to change. |
I don't know that I would agree. I certainly haven't seen anything to support or disprove your idea. There are certainly more entries. I don't know if that has in turn led to more voters, or particularly, more commenters.
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