Like most members I don't take much notice of the Caedes Control option showing the breakdown of statistics for your images. After all, I don't upload images just to see how many votes I can get!
However, recently I have looked at a few of my submissions periodically to see how they fare. A number of times I have seen a similar pattern - the first one or two votes I receive are high and then suddenly it plummets.
Take one image I uploaded recently for example: I checked it soon after submission and found it had one vote and a raw voting score of 100 - a generous person had given me 10/10 for that image. A little while later I had a look and found that I now had 3 votes and a raw voting score of 60. My mathematics isn't great but that aggregate total suggests that the next two voters gave me an average of 4/10 for that image. Even worse, one of them could have given me, say, 7 or 8 out of 10 which means that the remaining voter had to have voted 0 or 1 out of 10.
Now: I'd like to say for the record that I can't claim my images are great - that would be arrogant. I don't expect high votes, though I am pleased and flattered when people do give me decent scores. However, I would say that my images aren't absolutely terrible so I am surprised to get scores below 5/10 - the average mark. Maybe I am getting negative voting for having annoyed someone, or perhaps I am being paranoid. Maybe my images really are that bad, I don't know...
Then again, maybe my mental arithmetic is off the mark...! Has anyone else experienced similar things, or does anyone have any suggestions or ideas about this issue?
[Edit: Shortly after posting this topic, I had a look at the image again. By this time I had 4 votes and a raw score of 70, so that last voter had given me a 10 - once again I am flattered. But it just highlights again the gulf between the votes. Now: everyone is entitled to vote freely, but it is clear that one or both of those two middle voters gave a very low score.]
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." Bertrand Russell
However, recently I have looked at a few of my submissions periodically to see how they fare. A number of times I have seen a similar pattern - the first one or two votes I receive are high and then suddenly it plummets.
Take one image I uploaded recently for example: I checked it soon after submission and found it had one vote and a raw voting score of 100 - a generous person had given me 10/10 for that image. A little while later I had a look and found that I now had 3 votes and a raw voting score of 60. My mathematics isn't great but that aggregate total suggests that the next two voters gave me an average of 4/10 for that image. Even worse, one of them could have given me, say, 7 or 8 out of 10 which means that the remaining voter had to have voted 0 or 1 out of 10.
Now: I'd like to say for the record that I can't claim my images are great - that would be arrogant. I don't expect high votes, though I am pleased and flattered when people do give me decent scores. However, I would say that my images aren't absolutely terrible so I am surprised to get scores below 5/10 - the average mark. Maybe I am getting negative voting for having annoyed someone, or perhaps I am being paranoid. Maybe my images really are that bad, I don't know...
Then again, maybe my mental arithmetic is off the mark...! Has anyone else experienced similar things, or does anyone have any suggestions or ideas about this issue?
[Edit: Shortly after posting this topic, I had a look at the image again. By this time I had 4 votes and a raw score of 70, so that last voter had given me a 10 - once again I am flattered. But it just highlights again the gulf between the votes. Now: everyone is entitled to vote freely, but it is clear that one or both of those two middle voters gave a very low score.]