ENOUGH IS ENOUGH - Ratings Abuse

Mike: "ratings yeh, is as interesting as the people who are dooing the rating. if someone rates me very well or very down i go for his/her page to see the work in there own portefolio"

 

I find this interesting as often the work of people who burn me is quite boring to me... on the other hand, if someone who burns me has a great portfolio, I am more likely to take notice.

Likewise, I often find a correlation between people who rate well for experimental stuff with composistion etc and interesting, high quality portfolios.

Anyway,

 

A week has gone by now and this thread is about to disappear into the ether. Unfortunately, the two I originally referred to are still dominating the gallery with their often mediocre photos, scoring far more hits with their fake users than many far more deserving photos.

 

I can only assume that the moderators felt unable to act through lack of proof or weren't too concerned about it (I hope it was the former). I had hoped for more support on this than I got, but, alas, it was not to be. That's not to say I didn't receive some e-mails of support though. It would appear that the accusations that would have been hurled at these supporters would have been far more vehement than those reserved for the fraudsters themselves.

 

The only answer I can think of to prevent this is to allow patrons only to rate photo's. Perhaps all non-patron ratings could be deleted from the system (I assume, perhaps naively, that this would be easy to do), and we could start again from there.

 

Oh, and before any of you say "but you're not a member", I'm signing up this week (once I can figure out that bloody Paypal thing!).

I was thinking about solution to this problem and it`s quite simple,

rating system should be connected with your experience, for example if you have 40 photos with more than 10 ratings then you`re able to give someone 1/1, with 20 photos you can rate at 2/2, with 10 photos with 10 ratings you can give someone 3/3, if you havent got photos with more than 10 ratings you can give someone 4/4, 5/5, 6/6 and 7/7.

What do you think about it ??

I think the trouble with something like that is that it would be unfair on people who already have photos rated.

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First off, a rating is only worth the credibility you give the person rating. If they offer no comment, then the rating itself may not have credibility. Secondly, abuse is part of society itself and we are a society here at photo.net. This is no different than petty crime or vandalism of any sort and is, in its own strange way, these peoples contribution. Like art, they are stretching the boundaries and as such they may be viewed as 'abstract' rather than 'normal'. I enjoy the overall experience here at photo.net and don't intend to allow my emotions to destroy the opportunity here, which is to learn and savour photography as art. Look for the good always, Jos.

Jos,

 

I must say I am rather bewildered by your attitude. Would you feel the same way if your property or vehicle was vandalised?

 

Would you say the criminals are merely expressing themselves when they daub their names all over your wall with bright red paint?

 

How odd!

Mark

 

Have you posted a comment on the image of these mate raters.

A genuine critique (but no rating) may help guide others in their

viewing and therefore to more constructively critique/rate the

image.

 

Possibly if these people get some genuine critiques it may

lessen the value of their ratings 'achievements'.

 

I have done this a few times and it has produced results. I am

NOT suggesting personal attacks or accusations they are self

defeating.

 

Louis

As a few members here have said in this thread, the ratings system will always be a very very VERY poor representation of what is good and what is not on this site in general, and I have seen many great images with low ratings. Whatever. Try not to take the ratings all that seriously.

 

However, on the flip side, I must say that it is incredibly COWARDLY when you see that someone has gone through your whole portfolio and lowballed everything and then you see that they didn't even have the courage to put anything of their own up. It's a bit annoying at first, but then you realize that person is just too much of a coward to put their own work up for scrutiny and then you again see that in the end it really matters very little what that individual thinks, and the ratings don't matter too much either. And then you move on.