... I have nothing to hide about the vote I give a picture, and have many times listed my vote with my comment...
I have had people leave their vote in the comment and I respected it enough that started it myself. I may have fallen away from it over time, but probably because I didn't want to include until I had gone through all the images and adjusted accordingly. With all the entries, I never get back to adding my vote to the comments. I still like the idea and commend those who have the courage to put the vote for all to see.
Most of the "10" voters say as much in the comments, if not outright telling you what they voting you can guess it was high.
As far as the "1" votes, I think those frequently come from random trolls who don't participate themselves or are just bitter mean people voting everyone down to improve their own sorry ego. I know I've never submitted a photo worth a "1" so I really don't worry about it. Everyone gets them, so they even out in the long run.
Some people just knock off a point for things like not meeting the challenge, but if I don't see any connection to the challenge (even if it's a stellar picture) then I give you a 1. Or if your picture is just horrible .. again a 1.
There ya go, mystery solved. Every 1 ever given out came from me.
I pretty much know why I get 1s when I do. For about half the challenges I enter I don’t get any 1s, for a number of the others I will get 1 or 2 1s and these are the photos has not done well over all. The only time I get a lot of 1s is when I try to do a humorous photo.
a "10" doesn't have to mean "perfect"; it can also mean "I think this is the best picture in this challenge!" A "1" is definitely next to nothing, but there are plenty of images that deserve a score that low IMO.
I never give ones or tens. One is next to nothing and ten is perfect (there's no such thing). My votes generally range from 3 to 7.
Avg Vote Cast: 5.2815
In the last three challenges I entered there was an average point spread of only 3.78 points between first and last places. 7.323 being highest and 3.288 the lowest. In these challenges the average vote cast was 5.35 for all voters that participated. I have noticed that the bell curve for most of my recent pictures show this trend also.
Removing the anonymity of voting would be an unmitigated disaster. I shudder to think of the consequences...
Robt.
You can't even imagine how bad it would get, at one time Photo.net would tell you who gave you what rating. We are not even talking about a contest just ratings, they had to stop this do to the feuds that would get started. People are welcome to vote a one on my photos but I would rather not know who did it.
