ned1 Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 Is it just me, or are others finding they are getting three or four times the usual number of ratings on their pics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megansteen Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 I usually am lucky to get 4 or 5 ratings, but I am finding I am getting 10-15. Maybe it's just we are taking better photos so people want to leave a rating. But then again, most of the ratings aren't that good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ned1 Posted March 12, 2006 Author Share Posted March 12, 2006 I'm getting an abnormal number of 4/4's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
root Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 Two things are happening. One is that people aren't getting kicked off after a half dozen rates like they used to. The other has interesting implications. The "Skip" button is gone and has been replaced by a ">>" which allows you skip, but doesn't put the idea in your head. It means that people might be less likely to rate just what they like, but it also means that people need to have a better understanding about how to rate properly, especially when confronted with a genre outside their usual experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mottershead Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 I think Carl is right. One additional factor is that the new interface is a lot more fun than the old one because it presents the photos more appealingly and a lot faster. So people are being drawn to rate a lot more. There are several dozen people who have rated more than a hundred photos each in the last two days. This was rare before. In fact, someone rating hundreds of photos in a day was often an indicator of the presence of robot. That doesn't seem to be true any longer. In the last two days, the number of ratings per day has jumped from the usual 10-12 thousand per day to over 20 thousand per day. That is a big jump. It will be interesting to see if it continues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
root Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 I just put up a test image and got seven rates in less than five minutes! The average was comparable to a similar one that I uploaded earlier. I got one perfectly reasonable civil comment from someone I'd never met. Not bad at all . . . but as Brian says, we'll see if it can be sustained. We need more tests. Reload a popular image, then a "challenging" one. See what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atle.g Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 excellent interface. I tried it myself.. and was sitting...and sitting... rating a huge number of photos. I do think if a number of regulars on the site... give their share of rates here..the mate rating effect could be reduced..at least to a certain degree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstyles Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 Now that everyone's getting lots of ratings, how about requiring a minimum of 10 ratings to be ranked in the TRP default? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmw w Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 I've noticed that in the rating area as I'm rating I'm seeing photos again that I've already rated. Usually the day before. Wonder if were getting double and triple ratings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yankfan Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 I haven't noticed anything unusual. I've seen no change in the number of ratings I've recieved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidmccracken Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 Why are so many people fixed on the number of ratings they get? (OK It is a ratings based site!) Ratings without comment are given by people acting like robots. There can be no value to these ratings as there is no basis for understanding why the person giving the ratings did so. Having said that, I did rate a few photographs by mistake. I switched on the auto submit and entered a rating before entering a comment. Personally I feel the default TRP should be commented ratings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjmeade Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 I agree with David. The default ought to be make a comment. I added a couple of random images and picked up 14 ratings in a couple of hours, sadly none had comments with them. Fair enough, that means people are looking at my work. But although it's good to have our work evaluated by fellow photographers, it's better to have them comment. Comments can add to our understanding and potentially, can help us improve our work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wade_rose Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 yes I have noticed I have got alot more rating in the pass few days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjmeade Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 I have also noticed that the number of photos in TRP is up (doubled?) and that they all have lots of ratings. Changing the back end on RR seems to have worked wonders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eye2eyephoto Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 I'm glad it wasn't just me. I've put up quite a few pics in the last couple of weeks.. The spike in ratings surprised me... then I looked around at a few others and saw it was across the board. It doesn't really seem to matter, as far as I can see. As long as everyone is on the same system it'll all work itself out in the wash. This also may be temporary.. as folks get used to the new system. I don't do RR much anyway; I usually just click on stuff that strikes me from the critique page... I also agree that the trp shouldn't be based on RR... but I'm not sure about comments either. Seems to me that "avg" would be the best indicator. MANY people don't like to type. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexguerra Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 Jack, "average" was already the default of TRP before, and it proved not to be the best indicator as it was fertile ground for hordes of mate raters abusers to flood in the first pages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
screeny Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 Well, this is getting silly ...more then 10 people rating my images...pffff ridiculous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eye2eyephoto Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 One thing I also noticed.. the number of views has not gone up at all.. in fact, there seems to be fewer of them, especially if you take into account the increase in ratings. Seeing fewer "quality" looks because of higher "quantity" and speed? hmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ned1 Posted March 14, 2006 Author Share Posted March 14, 2006 On the other hand, I've started doing ratings again. It's actually fun again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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