maria_s. Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 I was wondering if Photo.net is ready to abandon the rating system altogether since its latest improvement, the anonymous rating, is unfortunately not working -- everyone who wants to know who rated them what finds a way. Participants in the TRP insanity keep little logs of their ratings and easily connect a new name with each new rating added to their entry (they have to spend hours before the monitors to observe each new rating added -- isn't that sick, btw?). Any prior behavior related to the rating anxiety haven't been moderated -- the only difference is people now spend more time to monitor closely their entries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tijean Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 Yes, basically the only people it is keeping information from are the people who are probably sane enough to not use that information as justification for revenge. Great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cappoldt Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 Wow, you'd almost think the "handful" of complainers about things like this was growing? Nah. Couldn't be. Besides, why would someone who paid $25 for a membership like Maria did expect a little thing like revenge rating by people who DON'T pay to be handled deftly by admins? <whistles> Maria, get in line behind me - but feel free to share half of my sandwich while we wait. Is mustard ok? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maria_s. Posted April 7, 2005 Author Share Posted April 7, 2005 don't get excited Chris, I've been waiting in that line since 2001. And yes, I take mustard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tijean Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 Yeah yeah yeah, the check's in the mail! Okay, so I lie. I'm sitting here trying to do enough creative checkbook math to rationalize buying a $7 pack of D76. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bens Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 Maria, can I be your Sancho Panza? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobatkins Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 Use HC-110. It's cheaper and it lasts longer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tijean Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 LOL. Thanks Bob, but the sad little photo mart an hour drive away only has a very baseline selection of chemistry. They also didn't know that Pentax had a DSLR. Good folk. Will keep that tucked under my hat for my next B&H order though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edmo Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 Sorry to bust in on the party but yeah, I think it's pretty sick, sick and twisted that people would actually sit at their monitors and track raters. What's even more twisted is the people sitting at their monitors leaving low ratings to track the trackers. A vicious and corrupt cycle that never ends, next we'll have folks tracking the folks tracking the trackers on and on. <p> Just a thought but why is a 'one' any different than a 'seven'? Means nothing either way. Well, I take that back, I guess it might mean something to somebody (obviously) including the folks who post threads saying that it doesn't mean anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tijean Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 A 1/1 given by someone as retaliation means as much to me as a 7/7 given to fish for mate rate buddies or get recipricating feedback. A batch of apparently honest low ratings means I need to stand back and look at my photo objectively again. Call me naive, but I thought that was the point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefoot Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 Blimey, the ratings system is obviously catching the imagination of the pn public. Even members who take pictures are showing an interest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maria_s. Posted April 7, 2005 Author Share Posted April 7, 2005 Projecting is a common mechanism in psychological responses but if used in excess it calls for professional help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefoot Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 An alteration of the form of a word by the addition of an affix, as in English dogs from dog, or by changing the form of a base, as in English spoke from speak, that indicates grammatical features such as number, person, mood, or tense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markplawchan Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 ...there's a rating system here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicholasprice Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 No, not a rating system, but a nice way of paying a chap a compliment, and inticing him back to your portfolio in order to leave a useful critique! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bens Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 . . . maybe should call it a grating system instead? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markplawchan Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 so I guess, "reciprocating, fawning, syncophantic, mutual admiration society" would pretty much "sum it up"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guyscrivner Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 Ratings are different for everybody. My suggestion would be to pay more attention to the art of photography and create something with mass appeal. As the say, build it and they will come. This is an example: <p> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?topic_id=1481&msg_id=00Bl9P&photo_id=3260615&photo_sel_index=0 <p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guyscrivner Posted April 7, 2005 Share Posted April 7, 2005 Sorry about that. I forgot to check HTML. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjords Posted April 8, 2005 Share Posted April 8, 2005 You can only hope that you have offended some ones parochial sensibilities, to think that a low rating is the result of some form of revenge would be ego deflating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomade Posted April 8, 2005 Share Posted April 8, 2005 "Photo.net is ready to abandon the rating system altogether since its latest improvement, the anonymous rating, is unfortunately not working" The "Critique only" section is now available for every image-uploaders that don't like to receive ratings on their image. Go there. Period. "Any prior behavior related to the rating anxiety haven't been moderated -- the only difference is people now spend more time to monitor closely their entries." Uh, now we have a Susan Sontag on P.net...? What's next? "Mother Mary comes to me speaking words of weasdom, Let it be, Let it be..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tijean Posted April 8, 2005 Share Posted April 8, 2005 I personally think that a 24 hour or even 3 day (is that how long they stay in the rate recent queue?) lag on rater name posting would help matters tremendously, though not completely solve the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecarter Posted April 8, 2005 Share Posted April 8, 2005 "The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars but in ourselves." - Shakespeare In other words, it isn't Photo.net that's broken here, just good old human nature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cappoldt Posted April 8, 2005 Share Posted April 8, 2005 Agreed, Eric. But as human nature can't be fixed, what else can Photo.net do to deter its lesser traits? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlt Posted April 8, 2005 Share Posted April 8, 2005 Frankly people who sit at there monitor all day to keep track of ratings need to get a life. Maybe they should watch paint dry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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