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12/15/2003 08:26:05 AM · #1 |
Hoping this is the right forum for such a question, I would like to ask how does the final rating sustem works in the challenges.
I'll put an example: a single picture gets a single 10 score, with an average of 10; a second picture gets two 9 scores with an average of 9; will the first picture be the winner?
Is the final result a simple average among the scores or are there different functions?
Thank you all. |
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12/15/2003 08:30:16 AM · #2 |
Average.
"Each challenge will state its dates for voting. Users should rate each and every photograph in the challenge on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being a perfect photograph). At the end of the week, the photograph holding the greatest average of votes will be declared the winner of that challenge. Second and third place photographs will also be recognized. While voting, users are asked to keep in highest consideration the topic of the challenge and base their rating accordingly.
Users must vote on at least 20% of the entries in order to have their votes counted towards the averages. Until a user votes for 20% of the images in a challenge, his votes are ignored. Voting patterns are also automatically monitored. Users whose vote patterns suggest an intent to unfairly disrupt the system will have their votes ignored and may be suspended from site functions. "
As quoted from the rules.
Message edited by author 2003-12-15 08:31:40.
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12/15/2003 08:35:20 AM · #3 |
Each photo gets a number equal of votes until the end of the voting date. {Or very close)
When we are talking over 200 votes, one vote extra, even a 10, doesn't make such a difference.
This is what I think, anyway... |
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12/16/2003 06:47:45 AM · #4 |
Thank you for the explanations. But, don't you think it may be quite an unfair method?
I mean, if a photo gets 300 votes with an average score of 7, shouldn't it be better considered than a photo which has a single vote with a score of 8?
I am not complaining at all about my pictures (I actually have only one which went good for my taste), but I am trying to understand if this way of conting scores by a simple average method is the best one.
Paolo S. |
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12/16/2003 07:07:03 AM · #5 |
An interesting question Paolo, an unlikely situation but nevertheless it could happen. Perhaps a Site Council member can enlighten us?
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12/16/2003 07:12:05 AM · #6 |
| I also wonder about this - there is really no way to insure that all photos have approximately the same number of votes, either. All we're required to do is vote on 20% of the photos in the challenge for our votes to count. I always try to do more than the minimum, but this brings up another question to me. It seems that when going through the images, they come up randomly. In other words, even if I look at all the images as a whole, page by page, I find that they're scrambled from page to page. If I go "back" looking for a particular image, like as not, it has moved. And, by the end of each challenge, it seems I always see some that I somehow missed when voting. I'd love to see a way in which the images could be a little more "static" in relation to their locations, and it would be neat to be able to click a box on each image that we'd like to comment on and then make all the comments at once (or be able to come back to them later to finish making comments if interrupted). |
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12/16/2003 08:47:40 AM · #7 |
I`m very new to this but I assumed that it was the total number of points accumulated i.e. the average x the number of voters which would mean in the example you gave that the picture with 2 votes of 9 totalling 18, would beat the picture with one vote of 10 ?
Gordon |
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