Photo of the week - How is it judged

Hi Folks,

 

I was wondering how the photos of the week are arrived at ? Is it based on the

ratings a picture receives and if so are the anonymous ratings taken into

consideration. If this is the case whats to stop someone from rating their own

photo anonymously with high ratings.

 

Or is there some other process involved. I am just curious as to how they are

judged. By the way in case anyone thinks I am trying to cause trouble, all the

photos of the week that I have seen deserved the accolade so I am not disputing

anything.

 

Mark

Actually, if you visit the POTW threads, you'll usually text like this right at the top: "This photograph was chosen because the Elves think it is interesting and worthy of discussion."

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The Elves are indeed mysterious, but it's their taste, and not ratings stats that drive the process. The Elves nominate images they think are appropriate, and then there's an Elf-Vote each week.

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If it were indeed a ratings-fest, it would simply be the Nude Of The Week. Or perhaps the High Dynamic Range Softened Water And Dock At Sunset Of The Week. The Elves save us from being in such a rut, and here's to 'em.

Thanks, Matt!

Thanks for that Matt, but that leads me to another question. Does this mean that there is someone who looks at all photos submitted over the course of a week and nominates a couple as photos of the week. That sounds like an awful lot of time spent at a computer screen. I know that if I spent that much time on my hobbies I would be divorced !

We have roughly 20 Elves and they can nominate a photo whenever they like. They are not required to look at all photos. Some will see an interesting picture when they use the Rate Photos feature, or when they browse the gallery. Others may click on someone's name and stumble upon a good portfolio. Different people, different tastes, different methods.

How does one get to be an Elve ? Sounds like an interesting job.

Mark, check out all of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elf"> the following attributes.</a><p>Sadly, it appears that the photo.net Elves have not yet been acknowledged by this particular reference source.<br>This is somewhat unfortunate...<p>How does one get to be an Elf? Your guess is as good as mine.

How does one get to be an elf? Simple process of elimination.

 

Eliminate all other fairy tale characters:

 

1. Trolls. Self explanatory.

 

2. Geese. They wake up to a new world every day. Relentless optimism can be endearing, but not when you can't remember last week's POW.

 

3. Brownies. See: Nose schmumph.

 

4. Ogres. (This is why I'm not one of the elves.)

 

5. Princesses. They're always griping about peas under the mattress. Or is it pee on the mattress...? Anyway, they're too precious.

 

6. Witches. All they see in a photo are the warts. And they're always trying to put everything in hot water.

 

7. Magicians. Can't figure out what the hell they're up to but it's probably no good.

 

8. Dwarves. All they care about are upskirt street photos.

 

9. Giants. When you are the hammer, everyone else looks like a nail.

 

10. Moderators. What? You thought we were real? Silly you.

You become an Elf when a nice lady, who is friends with the Editor in Chief,

asks you to take over publishing POW for a few weeks while they go on a trip.

And then she never... oh wait, no, that's just how they tricked me into it :-)

 

For the Real Elves (I try real hard to just push a few buttons called Add or

Confirm and not interfere too much): it's mostly by recommendation. So, be a

good community member, contribute, post, critique etc.

I am still trying to get my head around the "goose-elf" link. Is "Mother Goose" somehow involved? Anyway, on the subject of how do they choose? What about the choice of Daily Photo Sampling From Our Members' Work? I see a lot of the same stuff over and over and OVER. I have been a PN member for 5 years and not to toot my own horn (okay...maybe a little tooting) but I get decent ratings and I try to contribute. I don't think any of my stuff has ever made it into the illustrious panel of thumbnails. BTW....I also see a lot of really terrific images that way too.

Matt, ever caustic, ever right on; Mark, I think you're onto something; Lex, another fresh glass of water; Tiffany, flipped by the fickle finger of fate. This is my first venture into this forum and I love it.

"The Elves are indeed mysterious, but it's their taste... that drive the process. "

 

I had fricasséed elf once. Tasted like chicken.

Does that mean that there are only 19 left? Or do you need 2 to make a meal?

Matt said, "Actually, if you visit the POTW threads, you'll usually text like this right at the top: "This photograph was chosen because the Elves think it is interesting and worthy of discussion."

 

I initially read that as "Elvis think." That gave me a laugh and I thought I'd share it. (Of course, my sense of humor is strange...)

The dream goes something like this: I log into my e-mail 'thingy' and it's swamped with yards of messages from P.Net well wishers, all congratulating me on one my photos being chosen as 'PHOTO of the YEAR' (I dream big!) So I rush over to my site to see which of my masterpieces( o.k., I'm still dreaming) has been chosen by the Leprechauns (Irish Elves! .....O.K!...Give me patience!) only to find they have chosen the one photo I neglected to delete in the last spring clean of my portfolio of masterpieces.Now I have to defend this lesser spotted masterwork against all comers like Rachel Ann flamin' Foster , Lex( horizontally challenged [frequently I hear!] Jenkins, and not forgetting of course, Bernhardt what's-his-name...who will ever forget what's-his name? and Patrick and Tiffany and Rachel and Lex (o.k. it's a closed loop dream). Suddenly things turn very nasty indeed....My photo of a singularly delicious portwine-stew is being ravaged by a 'bite' of vampires (3/3 raters).........I kid you not! Then in a flash of ozone my bloody P.C crashes again! It may have been just a dream or perhaps a portent but don't think it couldn't happen to YOU. My advice to users of this site is.......drum roll Ginger please..........Dadaah , Dadaah, Dahdaaaaaaaaa (oh get on with it ya sap!) BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID

Frank, like many of my generation, I, too remember MLK and the significance of dreams. Alas, common decency restrains me from sharing mine. Few people, it seems, are interested in my thoughts concerning elves, leather and Silly Putty.