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 05/29/2007 07:50:47 PM · #1
I was going through some challenges and ran across something that rekindled a thought I had a while back. The kicker was a comment that went something like, "This was a favorite of mine during voting". I clicked the "favorites" link and sure enough, that person had added the entry as a fave - after the challenge was over and had ribboned. I certainly understand adding one after the challenge if you didn't vote or see it during the voting phase, but if the shot was worthy of one's favorites I wonder why they felt the need to wait to see how it placed before they added it. Thoughts?
 05/29/2007 07:58:55 PM · #2
My thought is that maybe they weren't waiting to see how it place...nor waiting to see who it belonged to...they were probably just busy clicking those big numbers on the voting scale and didn't think to scroll down as far as the "favorites" check box.... Then, when something rekindled a thought they had about the image they smacked their forehead like a V8 commercial and went in to check the box. How's that sound?
 05/29/2007 08:05:44 PM · #3
Originally posted by dudephil:
I was going through some challenges and ran across something that rekindled a thought I had a while back. The kicker was a comment that went something like, "This was a favorite of mine during voting". I clicked the "favorites" link and sure enough, that person had added the entry as a fave - after the challenge was over and had ribboned. I certainly understand adding one after the challenge if you didn't vote or see it during the voting phase, but if the shot was worthy of one's favorites I wonder why they felt the need to wait to see how it placed before they added it. Thoughts?


I have plenty of challenge favorites that don't get added to my favorites. Sometimes, however, an image I passed on earlier just sticks with me and I end up going back to find it.
05/29/2007 08:06:07 PM · #4
Originally posted by KaDi:
My thought is that maybe they weren't waiting to see how it place...nor waiting to see who it belonged to...they were probably just busy clicking those big numbers on the voting scale and didn't think to scroll down as far as the "favorites" check box.... Then, when something rekindled a thought they had about the image they smacked their forehead like a V8 commercial and went in to check the box. How's that sound?


Sorry. I guess I should've said that they also commented during the voting phase.

If they hadn't done that then I'd say your theory is a good one.

Message edited by author 2007-05-29 20:06:35.
 05/29/2007 08:29:39 PM · #5
I generally always comment on my favourite photos in a challenge to say this is one of my favoutites. I have never added any photo to my favourites list. I'm fairly new and still working my way around DPC so haven't even looked into the favourites facility.
 05/29/2007 08:34:01 PM · #6
Err.. nevermind.


Message edited by author 2007-05-29 20:35:03.
 05/29/2007 09:14:42 PM · #7
Favorite? What's that?
I get so few that whether someone does it the first time they view it in a challenge or two years later is cool with me! :-)

As for your question, I don't think I have ever selected an image that I have voted on as a favorite during actual voting. Never thought as to why, other than (as someone else pointed out) that I'm concentrating on the scoring of the image.

I tend to have a different mindset when 'searching' for favorites than when I vote, I guess...I separate the activities.

I'm rambling.
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 05/29/2007 10:21:56 PM · #8
this is a dumb thread. sorry. no one can predict why people do or not do things.
 05/29/2007 10:42:18 PM · #9
Originally posted by dudephil:
I was going through some challenges and ran across something that rekindled a thought I had a while back. The kicker was a comment that went something like, "This was a favorite of mine during voting". I clicked the "favorites" link and sure enough, that person had added the entry as a fave - after the challenge was over and had ribboned. I certainly understand adding one after the challenge if you didn't vote or see it during the voting phase, but if the shot was worthy of one's favorites I wonder why they felt the need to wait to see how it placed before they added it. Thoughts?


I do comment that a shot is great and not fav it sometimes..there is a difference between a shot that I score high and a fav...to be a fav I have to want to stare at it a lot...I know this is different than your example, but there are my thoughts...off to go find a fav...
 05/29/2007 11:08:01 PM · #10
perhaps you can explain how whiterook has been selected as a fav photog 42 times and I have only been chosen 19 times. I try to help when i can having made 4 times the helpful comments and thousands more posts (many of which i try to help) I have some decent shots including a few top 10s. So why would he have over twice as many favs as me? I am not saying that I deserve more or that he deserves less, just that sometimes if we think too much about things they don't make sense. In the end people chose him because they like him more.

people (IMO) wait for the results because they like to feel like they belong. They don't want to feel like a fool (which they shouldn't) when they choose a 4.9 as a favorite during voting.
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