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Canon EOS-300D Rebel
 05/19/2004 11:53:27 AM · #1
With an hour to go in the voting last night, my image had received 329 votes with a score of 5.6170. When the voting ended an hour later, I had a score of 5.746 (woohoo!) but only 307 votes. Were twenty two voters (who apparently didn't like my picture) sent to time out and had their votes erased? Seriously, why such a difference in number of voters?
Canon EOS-1D Mark II
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM
 05/19/2004 11:54:55 AM · #2
Illegal voting patterns and people who didn't vote on 20%.

Think about this: I give my friend a 10 and then 19% 1's. My votes are tossed, including the 1 to you. (thus score goes up).

Also - if you fail to vote on 20%, but you DO vote on an image, that image loses the vote.
Sony DSC-F828
 05/19/2004 11:55:09 AM · #3
They didn't vote their 20%...
Canon EOS-300D Rebel
 05/19/2004 11:56:22 AM · #4
Ahhh...<> I should have figured that out. Thanks! :-)
Olympus C-750UZ
 05/19/2004 01:28:53 PM · #5
What seems strange to me is that the clearing of invalid votes at the end almost always (always as far as I have seen) ends up increasing the final score of the picture, never lowering it. You would think that statistically, the dropped votes would average out to make the change much smaller and either way (up or down).

drg
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