I say the Voting Booth system does not work. And to back up my claim, here are my findings:
Why it does not work:
To be able to be voted upon, you must fill a certain amount of votes yourself. This provokes the more selfish among us to quick-vote. Open the big pic, close it before it even loads, punch a number and click on, NEVER even looking at the photo for more than a few seconds.
This leads to unrealistic c-indexes, in both bad photos getting high marks, and good photos getting low marks, with no feedback whatsoever.
How it would work better:
Lets say the system is not open to change as a whole. A minor tweak, however, would force better and more correct c-indexes.
Let's force the voting booth users to leave a comment upon voting if the vote is anything from 1-3 or 8-10.
This way if somebody wants to give your image bad marks, they are forced to give also a reason to it.
Makes no sense to let anyone ruin the day of others and not even having to explain oneself.
What makes me say this is the c-index of my photo "Observer", which is to my understanding at least an ok 5, and not the 2.9 it is now. I would have wished for at least some feedback from the people who had the nerves to put it down like this, so I could maybe see what they liked or did not like, in order to get better, or to better take photos that delight others in addition to myself.
Now I just feel bad, and have no explanations to learn from.
I wish that if people do post under this thread, they take the time to read EVERYTHING that has been written. This should discourage flash-replying and also bring down the amount of unnecessary "bickering".
Check out the site "Between Truths", read, learn and pass on. The three steps is all you need to remember to get started. =)
http://www.freewebs.com/intween/
Why it does not work:
To be able to be voted upon, you must fill a certain amount of votes yourself. This provokes the more selfish among us to quick-vote. Open the big pic, close it before it even loads, punch a number and click on, NEVER even looking at the photo for more than a few seconds.
This leads to unrealistic c-indexes, in both bad photos getting high marks, and good photos getting low marks, with no feedback whatsoever.
How it would work better:
Lets say the system is not open to change as a whole. A minor tweak, however, would force better and more correct c-indexes.
Let's force the voting booth users to leave a comment upon voting if the vote is anything from 1-3 or 8-10.
This way if somebody wants to give your image bad marks, they are forced to give also a reason to it.
Makes no sense to let anyone ruin the day of others and not even having to explain oneself.
What makes me say this is the c-index of my photo "Observer", which is to my understanding at least an ok 5, and not the 2.9 it is now. I would have wished for at least some feedback from the people who had the nerves to put it down like this, so I could maybe see what they liked or did not like, in order to get better, or to better take photos that delight others in addition to myself.
Now I just feel bad, and have no explanations to learn from.
I wish that if people do post under this thread, they take the time to read EVERYTHING that has been written. This should discourage flash-replying and also bring down the amount of unnecessary "bickering".