Proposal

[tomaso nigris]

I suggest a new rating system. As I already said in another post .In

the critique forum the quality level of pictures is not very high

and rating too, so if you do not have friends that are visiting your

workspace or you are not able to get in a short time (1 -3 days) at

least 3 good rating so to go in TOP photos it's difficult get rating

to the picture in workspace. My proposal is to add a new additional

rating system, a weekly knock out competition: photographer post a

picture and the match is among two pictures every time, The table of

matches will be with photographer with highest avarage rate against

with lower and so on. No rating, Everybody just choose one of the

two pictures after 11 members vote one of the 2 pictures will go to

the next turn, at the end the top 16 pictures will go to top photos

and can also receive rating. Mine is just a pleasant proposal trying

to be less serious about our picture.

[kathywilson]

That's sort of an interesting idea - though I'm betting it would be a nightmare to implement and administrate given the number of photos submitted each day. You could take the photographer's name off of them to cut down on mate-voting/rating. Vote one up, one down, or give a flat score of 1-10 instead of two scores of 1-7. But that next level of rating would need another queue I suppose - several to carry it to the logical end, and ... already the mind boggles at how to carry it out.

 

But, you know - if it were done as an *additional* rating system in a "competition level" forum type thing, with voluntary participation... maybe that would make the hyper-competitive types happy, and clear them out of the current system? Hmm. That might be rather interesting.

[marshall]

Unfortunately, it seems pretty subject to becoming a popularity contest.

[kathywilson]

Marshal - it already is. But it might be less so if photographers names were removed for the duration of the "competition" (or even in the current rating queue for that matter) But a competition element might very well attract the very ppl so involved in that "popularity" aspect, and satisfy (or reveal the naked emperor) the need some seem to have to be the "Top" photographers, leaving the "regular" rating queue to those less competitively minded.