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 05/08/2005 01:24:23 AM · #1

It would be nice if there was some way to NOT see your own score until you have voted on a percentage of the other entries. That may reduce a bias. If someone sees their low score they may vote other people's low in spite.

Just a thought.

05/08/2005 01:42:21 AM · #2
I think it is quite normal to evaluate what you see and compare it with your own submission. I do not think many people do it out of spite though, maybe a very small minority but it may happen.

The same phenomenon and bias raises it's ugly head if there are many of the 'same' kind of pics, some people automatically vote those pics down. Yet another problem is if people think this is a questionable pic, someone must have breached a rule to get the pic like that... easy vote it down.

For me the answer is to accept your score and look at each pic individually. Integrity is something we should all strive to apply, not only here but throughout our lives.
 05/08/2005 01:48:25 AM · #3
Just go to your profile page and turn off the display of the current score until you've voted on as many as you think appropriate.
 05/08/2005 01:56:59 AM · #4
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Just go to your profile page and turn off the display of the current score until you've voted on as many as you think appropriate.


agreed! i think that if you force people to vote that the quality of votes goes down giving an inaccurate representation of how good/bad a picture really is.
 05/08/2005 02:06:34 AM · #5
I'm subjective this way, too. Often I think, if I'm running at x.yyy right now, there is no way this or that image is worth more than a.bbb. However, I am currently about 1 pt difference between average vote given and received, so I am not really doing this although I inevitably do the comparison. I'm more inclined to think: they did this in a similar way, and I really like it, and score it perhaps higher than someone would score my entry...

To escape this, I vote on all images (or most, depending on the number of entries) between the midnight and 1 or 2 o'clock on the first day of voting before I even look at my score - or even if I do, the score on the first day is usually not an indication of the final score.

SO, if your score drops on the 2nd, 3rd etc. day of voting, it wasn't me.
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