Hi all...I'd like to express a concern with respect to the new voting system. No, I'm not intent on bashing Caedes.net in this regard....I only wish to see the system "work" as well as possible. Here's my concern...A new image goes up. The initial c-index is calcluated based on the first 5 or 10 votes it gets in the voting booth (correct?) If a couple-few of people rate that image very low, the initial c-index will likely be quite low. My concern is that, the way I understand the system, that image no longer has any priority in the voting booth . . . new images do, as do older images still awaiting c-index stats. Hence, the image is basically "locked" with a relatively low c-index based on a relatively low number of votes, it no longer shows up very often in the voting booth, does not get attention on the main page via TNI and, in essence, is likely destined to do relatively poorly based on the votes of a couple-few people. Is my thinking in this regard inaccurate or is it true that a relatively few number of votes seem to largely determine the "fate" of many images? Thanks for giving my concern consideration. Hope all is well with Caedes folks in the new year! Wen

As soon as all the images have a c-index (currently about 2000 to go) we'll start adding votes on previously voted-on images, but first we need more votes coming in. Right now we only get a few hundred votes more than is needed for the newly uploaded images. Those few hundred extra votes go to the old images. So the more voting everyone does the faster we will get there.

hmmmm… is that a hint?

I vote on 40 images each day (the max allowed) whether I upload or not. It's fun and I wish more people would vote and be honest when doing so. It's easy to give everyone 0's or 10's...I mean really look at the post and vote sincerely.

Rock the vote :)

I hear ya, Caedes. More people need to vote. My point was that, as I understand the system, by the time images return to the voting booth for another look or two (after they recieve the initial 10 or so votes), they will be archived and no longer appear in the voting booth...correct? In addition, I'm not sure at this point how the c-index is determined....is it a literal average, a weighted average and does the number of downloads effect the number? Wen