"Keepers of the day" (a brand new idea)

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There had been too many discussions about rating system and POW etc. I

just had a brand new idea to supplement the "top photos" feature when

I read a comment in a thread about aesthetical tastes:

 

"...we can really talk about inadequations for bad images, and that we

can trace them with a certain degree of objectivity SOMETIMES ..."

 

-- Marc Gouguenheim

 

As photographers, we all went through the painful but important

process of editing

our photos, removing the bad ones and keep the good ones. Here is my

idea:

 

How about making a page of "Keepers of the day"? It starts with all

photos uploaded in the previous day (with proper page layout).

Anybody with a photo.net account can remove a photo out of the list.

Keep the process for 24 hours and the final "keeper list" will stay

for another 24 hours. By this way we have two lists for "keepers", one

is the working list which people can delete photos and the other one

is the exhibition list. Both of them have 24 hour life time. This is

going to be a very interesting page. It is very good for publicity of

new photos and also a very useful tool for people to practice

selecting photos (which I think is as equally important as shooting

itself).

One problem, any bad irresponsible photo.netter can kill the whole list. But it is not difficult for the PN police to find out the killer and do something with him ;-)

Rather than actually delete a photo, each interested member could put in some number of votes to delete. That is, if we had 36 photos in the page to start, each member could vote for up to 18 photos to remove. The votes would be counted and, at the end of 24 hours, the 18 photos with the highest number of (dump) votes would be removed and the other 18 would form the "keepers" list for the next day. Of course, there would also be a new list of 36 photos to be voted on and so on. I like the idea a lot; we could get a really good idea of the members's likes and dislikes. (We would also need a daily show of the votes for all the photos, so you would know exactly how each photo fared.)

"Survivor" was a horrible TV series. Let's not imitate it here.

Setting a voting threshold is a good idea to prevent abuse.

 

It is not a survivor game. If all 700 photo are perfect (i.e.,

everybody keeps them), they are all keepers. There is no

competition here either because the photos are not ranked.

Sorry I misunderstood the "threshold" suggested above by

Jeremy. What I thought was even simpler: setting a minimum

votes to remove a photo from a list. Therefore, if some one hates

one photographer for his/her own reason, his/her vote won't

affect the result. This minimum vote could be 10, or 20,

determined by the editors.

30,000 photos per month. That is about 1000 per day. You can be first on the 56K line to click on the page with 1000 jpeg thumbnails, then go through 1000 jpeg thumbnails deleting the ones you dont like. This is interesting with perhaps 10 or 50 photos a day, but there is no way to do this here and now.

1000 photos a day is assuming that everyone is going to want every photo they submit to show up on that page. For me, most of what I have in my portfolio is up there to get feedback, but I have a handful of digitally altered images that I put up for fun and wouldn't submit for critique. I wouldn't want those showing up in the list.

 

A better way would be to allow people the option to select one photo out of the ones they upload that day to be added to the list. If you take all the photos that are uploaded, I can see people deleting and re-uploading their entire portfolio each day just to have lots of photos on that screen.