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07/07/2008 03:26:50 PM · #1 |
I think it might be helpful to photographers and voters alike if thumbnails during a challenge were blank until the image was viewed. This would prevent any voters from getting an initial or first impression from a tiny thumbnail instead of first seeing the image in its full glory.
The only con I can see at the moment with my ever so limited imagination is people voting from work not being able to identify nude images etc before clicking on them.
Anyones thoughts on this?
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07/07/2008 03:36:58 PM · #2 |
| I often skim thumbnails after rollover to see what people came up with, but almost never vote at that time. As you suggested, it's also kinda hard to spot images to be flagged if you have to go through them one at a time. |
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07/07/2008 03:43:39 PM · #3 |
I could suggest something far more complicated to code in that case ;) ...
Offer via a javascript checkbox to show or hide the thumbnails, thumbnails if shown cannot be clicked in order to vote, however a checkbox below them can be used to flag the images. Each time the show/hide check box is changed the order of the thumbnails will shuffle around.
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07/07/2008 04:13:00 PM · #4 |
| Can someone please explain? I would love to be able to vote from the thumbnail alone so I could speedily sort images by scoring them into categories, but I don't see how it's possible to vote the thumb. Right now, I can only skim thru the thumbs to see what's in the challenge before deciding whether to begin voting. |
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07/07/2008 04:15:13 PM · #5 |
I scan through the thumbs to make sure everything is work/small child safe. Then, I vote.
I've never understood the logic of thumbnail voting. The only way I could see it being done would be to look at thumbs, pick one, vote, go back to challenge page, let it load, pick a thumb, repeat. This would seem to take a LOT more time and effort. |
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07/08/2008 02:18:02 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by karmat:
I've never understood the logic of thumbnail voting. The only way I could see it being done would be to look at thumbs, pick one, vote, go back to challenge page, let it load, pick a thumb, repeat. This would seem to take a LOT more time and effort. |
Only if you plan on voting on the whole batch this way.
I usually scan the thumbnails, look at and vote on the ones I like, then drudge through full-size images until I hit 20%. I may miss a lot of gems, or a lot of trash, but that's the tradeoff I take given time constraints and the beauty of random order.
Some may argue that images with good thumbnails get higher scores, but I disagree. I think they only get more views and votes, but this shouldn't affect the average score. The thumbnail may cause me to look at it, but my vote is based on the large version. Often images will be blurry or not quite what you thought, and you vote appropriately. |
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07/08/2008 04:02:30 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by pixelpig:
Can someone please explain? I would love to be able to vote from the thumbnail alone so I could speedily sort images by scoring them into categories, but I don't see how it's possible to vote the thumb. Right now, I can only skim thru the thumbs to see what's in the challenge before deciding whether to begin voting. |
We don't allow voting from the thumbs because it is not fair -- many great images look lousy that small, and some pretty bad images (see my portfolio) can look cool when tiny. It is only fair if everyone is voting on the same thing.
Picking which photos to vote on from the thumbs page ("cherry-picking") is essentially an attemt to defeat the randomization factor intended to assure that all photos receive a statistically-equal number of votes -- it's obviously not illegal, since the thumbs are still being displayed before they are voted-on -- but I (personally) feel it violates the spirit of the voting rules. |
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07/10/2008 01:15:13 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by smurfguy:
Only if you plan on voting on the whole batch this way.
I usually scan the thumbnails, look at and vote on the ones I like, then drudge through full-size images until I hit 20%. I may miss a lot of gems, or a lot of trash, but that's the tradeoff I take given time constraints and the beauty of random order.
Some may argue that images with good thumbnails get higher scores, but I disagree. I think they only get more views and votes, but this shouldn't affect the average score. The thumbnail may cause me to look at it, but my vote is based on the large version. Often images will be blurry or not quite what you thought, and you vote appropriately. |
Maybe, maybe not. I would guess that most people think they are more objective than they really are. It is just human nature. The fact that you are voting "on the ones I like" seems to imply that the thumbnail has you predispossed to the photo. So even if it is a little OOF or has some other faults, you have already declared that you like it, so will give it a higher score. Perhaps if you saw it full size for the first time with no predispostiion you might notice the flaws right away and judge it a point or two lower. Seems to me voting on them in random order is the spirit of the voting rules. |
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