Okay, with all this voting stuff going around I have seen people mention that they like to have rankings that go from 1-10. I was wondering if this is something that is suggested by the SC, or something people just happen to do. And is it something that I should maybe consider doing. Right now I just give them a rating. Then at the end I may make some adjustments while looking at the groupings by numbers, but I don't try to give out every number from 1-10. If there isn't a really bad shot then I won't have any 1s and if there isn't something that I think is just stellar then I won't have any 10s. Is this something I should change, should I be giving out numbers in each challenge in the entire range of 1-10? Thanks for your thoughts.
Whats one more voting question among all those threads out there?
...I don't try to give out every number from 1-10. If there isn't a really bad shot then I won't have any 1s and if there isn't something that I think is just stellar then I won't have any 10s. Is this something I should change, should I be giving out numbers in each challenge in the entire range of 1-10? ...
I think yours is a sensible way of voting. I do the same.
What I wonder about is whether or not our votes might get thrown out by a site feature, if some algorythm reads voters like us as trolls?
...I don't try to give out every number from 1-10. If there isn't a really bad shot then I won't have any 1s and if there isn't something that I think is just stellar then I won't have any 10s. Is this something I should change, should I be giving out numbers in each challenge in the entire range of 1-10? ...
I think yours is a sensible way of voting. I do the same.
What I wonder about is whether or not our votes might get thrown out by a site feature, if some algorythm reads voters like us as trolls?
I would hope not, as I dole out very little or either of these scores. If indeed they did, then I fear I have wasted a lot of time voting.
Ditto. Some challenges just have better photos than others, so sometimes I give multiple 10s and sometimes nothing higher than an 8 (and similarly on the other end). I also think this is what most people do. If you look at the history of challenges, the highest and lowest scores vary a lot from challenge to challenge. I don't think you'd see that if everyone deliberately tried to use the whole 1-10 scale in every challenge.
Okay, at least from the first few responses it looks like I am doing it like other people are, I just have read that some people like to spread out the scores. I wonder what the algorithm for throwing out scores really is, I give a lot of the same number it seems, but I do have variety in my scores as well. It would be a shame if my scores were getting thrown out.
I vote pretty much on a bell curve with five at the center. It's never a perfect bell though. If I see a good shot that meets the challenge, it's a five. From there I consider technical aspects, how interesting the subject, difficulty of the set-up, etcetera. I then bump it one way or the other as needed. Plain average shots stay at five. Extraordinarily good or bad shots will also get a comment if I have the time to do so.
...I don't try to give out every number from 1-10. If there isn't a really bad shot then I won't have any 1s and if there isn't something that I think is just stellar then I won't have any 10s. Is this something I should change, should I be giving out numbers in each challenge in the entire range of 1-10? ...
I think yours is a sensible way of voting. I do the same.
What I wonder about is whether or not our votes might get thrown out by a site feature, if some algorythm reads voters like us as trolls?
Sometimes I only vote even numbers.
Sometimes only odd.
Sometimes I vote only 4,5,6's.
Sometimes on from 5-10.
...and sometimes...
What do I care if my votes are thrown out? I cast them. It's not up to me to know if they count.
Sometimes I smile at the cashier.
Sometimes I don't.
It's not up to me to know what counts.
I don't really pay attention to my distribution of scores, although I'll sometimes realize it's skewed one way or the other within a given challenge. For example, I really liked a lot of the shots in Scene It, whereas I was really bored by a lot of the shots in Popcorn. So the first one had a much higher average vote from me than the second.
