Two suggestions

[photomd]

Dear Brian and Bob:

 

No doubt that Photo.net is a great asset to online photography. I

like everything it brings home - tutorials, forums, reviews, and

best of all, photos from all around the world and from pros and

amateurs alike.

 

I have two suggestions to further improve this site. Probably you've

dealt with them in the past and my opinion would then be just a

reminder.

 

1- I believe that the default setting of high-rated photos (highest

ratings in the last three days) can be more meaningful and would

more closely refect the outstanding status of the photo if we take

both the number of ratings and the average of O&A into account. I,

therefor, suggests the Photo Index number that is calculated as (A+O)

*n (where n is the number of ratings). In this case, we will prevent

a photo that is less "outstanding" to be ranked higher merely

because more people saw it and prevent photo to be ranked higher (as

per higher rating setting) only because of two odd 7s.

 

2- I also suggest to activate the search engine. It is so difficult

to follow someone's work without these search engines. You can

disable the rating ability to prevent biased rating if this is a

concern (last time I checked the search engines they were disabled)

 

Lastly, I highly recommend to put "home" URL from all the pages

and "High-rated photos" URL from the "add a comment" page. When I

need to check my portfolio I cannot go back to the front page

directly. I have to go to "my workshop" then I find "home" URL

there. Going back from "add a comment" page is even a bigger hassle.

I either have to go to high-rated photo and scroll through the pages

from the beginning or I have to keep pressing the "back" arrow.

 

Well, it turned to be three or four suggestion. Not bad.

 

Thank you for you attention to these matters.

 

Nabil Majid

[mendel_leisk]

The Photo.net icon at upper left of each page takes you to home page. I just twigged to this accidentally, it doesn't explain itself.

[root]

Choice of words is important. You're assuming that we want to put all

the 'best' images in their proper order. The reason for the recent

change favoring number of rates was an attempt to reduce the impact of

this approach to rating, yet the reason for the recent changes would

be clearer if we also did away with all references to to 'top' or

'highest'. I'd like to see all data removed from those pages so

people will click on an image based more on its' merits than on the

popularity of maker or it's supposed high value based on previous

rates. You can check out all this information easily enough, but it

helps focus attention on the image, which is where it should be.