How in the world is the author list sorted. I can't figure it out and its the same on the dev site. The first few pages seem to stay the same. But my name seems to keep moving closer and closer to the first page. Does caedes sit at his computer at night and sort them by which he wants to see first or what? :p

A few people have asked this before; it's sorted by total c-index. SO as you post more images, you will tend to move up in the list.

gotcha!

Total c-index, as in the total of all your individual image c-indexes added together?

I've never been sure how it was worked out. Does this mean that somebody who posts 100 images, all of them at c-index 40, will be higher ranked than someone who posts 40 images each of c-index 99?

It just takes all the person's images and then adds up their c-indexes. It's only supposed to bring the major contributors to the front: either because they have many images or a few very good ones.

I see.

i dont know if this would be too complicated but could you possibly change the calculation so that authors that upload many images would still be high on the list, but authors that do less, higher rated work would be given an advantage for having less images posted? just a thought.

Is this still how it is done?

theres a fancier formula now i think. if i remember it properly it adds the square of the c-indexs to give advantage to those with less higher rated images

But that wouldn't make any sense - squaring the values before summing up just makes the numbers bigger, but doesn't change the order (since there are no negative c-indexes).

I think it went from squares to cubes fairly quickly, to increase the emphasis on quality over quantity. And Mia, it does make a difference even without negative scores. If the list was sorted by total c-index, someone with 5 scores of 40 (total 200) would outrank someone with 2 scores of 80 (total 160). But by adding the cubes, the totals are 320,000 and 1,024,000, so the smaller number of higher rated images counts for a lot more.

Yes, I think it is cubed now, which is better. This means that artists that post infrequently but obtain high scores are not as disadvantaged as they used to be. Of course, if you are mediocre like me and don't post much then it makes no odds! ;-)

Ups... I should check before writing... didn't consider that the number of summands can be different... sorry!