Browsing through different photos (today, top rated), I saw many obvious attacks. The one that caught my attention the most was a picture that had only votes of six and up, except for a one. Do we really want users like this around? For a picture that everyone thought looked great, is there someone who could honestly say that it has no value as a photograph?
Browsing through different photos (today, top rated), I saw many obvious attacks. The one that caught my attention the most was a picture that had only votes of six and up, except for a one. Do we really want users like this around? For a picture that everyone thought looked great, is there someone who could honestly say that it has no value as a photograph?
It's called negative voting.
Some people give low scores to the good photos hoping that their photo will win!
It's called negative voting.
Some people give low scores to the good photos hoping that their photo will win!
Should there not be some sort of vote tracking for this kind of behavior? It changes the results of the challenge. Though most times sublte, it could change the placings slightly.
Oh not this again...
Just let people vote how they want, people have different opinions.
Oh come on, this is getting to be my favorite fight starter.
You don't think that there's something MASSIVELY wrong with certain photos around here getting 1s and 2s? I'd LOVE to know who gave them - at least that way we could understand either a) this person knows nothing about photography or b) they finished 1 spot above or below.
There is vote tracking, though it centers itself around voting patterns based on particular voters, not on photographs. So someone voting only 1s, as an obvious example, would have his or her votes not counted.
It's called negative voting.
Some people give low scores to the good photos hoping that their photo will win!
Should there not be some sort of vote tracking for this kind of behavior? It changes the results of the challenge. Though most times sublte, it could change the placings slightly.
There is already a script that throws out suspicious voting patterns.
There is vote tracking, though it centers itself around voting patterns based on particular voters, not on photographs. So someone voting only 1s, as an obvious example, would have his or her votes not counted.
Okay, cool. That's all I was wondering/looking for.
I am assured the algorithm is great for this - but if I give just one or two of the best photos of the week a 1 when I have a 6.96, would that get tossed? You'd have to assume it doesn't - as I'm allowed to have my opinion on them (and perhaps I DO think they deserve a 1) but what can you do, honestly, about people giving 1s to ribbon winners? Kill em? Force them to give any shot with such and such score a 3 or higher?
I am assured the algorithm is great for this - but if I give just one or two of the best photos of the week a 1 when I have a 6.96, would that get tossed? You'd have to assume it doesn't - as I'm allowed to have my opinion on them (and perhaps I DO think they deserve a 1) but what can you do, honestly, about people giving 1s to ribbon winners? Kill em? Force them to give any shot with such and such score a 3 or higher?
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You're completely right. The most you can do is make sure nobody's rating all of the entries down. That's really what I was getting at.
I wonder if we could have a script that will generate a thread like this every 2 or 3 weeks, auto-post a few hundred post that get progressively more hostile, and end in an admin lock...
I wonder if we could have a script that will generate a thread like this every 2 or 3 weeks, auto-post a few hundred post that get progressively more hostile, and end in an admin lock...
It'd be a great time saver :)
Sarcasm doesn't help threads like this. Sorry if I'm making a thread that older members see all the time, but nobody's making you come in here.
