How about awarding ribbons for the 3 worst photos? Think of it like receiving a purple heart for getting wounded. I know it's a little un-PC, but I've been down there a few times. Those unwanted, ugly photos are like your children, sure they're a little "off" but they're still yours, right?
How about awarding ribbons for the 3 worst photos? Think of it like receiving a purple heart for getting wounded. I know it's a little un-PC, but I've been down there a few times. Those unwanted, ugly photos are like your children, sure they're a little "off" but they're still yours, right?
We already have a brown ribbon and that by itself is too much. It encourages crapola. There is enough of that already going around without further encouragement.
Agreed, the point is to develope the art, not diminish it. Ridicule is an unfitting reward to those who tried and failed. As for encouraging low scores, that diminishes the site.
I love the bottom feeders, the outcasts, the misfits, the brownies of this hundred-acre wood. But no ribbons. No awards. "Views since voting" stats and that deliciously painful satisfaction of being last is enough. Vive les DPC miserables!
I've spent a couple hours browsing the 'worst rated' photos on this site. Its true that a vast majority don't warrant a second look; but every once in a while there is a gem. Sometimes it's a great photo entered in the wrong challenge. Sometimes it's a photo that is really very good but doesn't quite adhere to the normal style of the site (i.e. its purposefully blurred). It might be fun to have a 'second look' award for good photos that scored badly in a challenge.
