oliver_indra

I do not care too much about ratings but am happy of course if people show me that they like my pics quite obviously with good ratings. Brian, you may be right, one 7 is like one 1 and someone said anything about average ratings here already. BUT: I find it really annoying and sometimes frustrating if you spent lots of time and creativity in your pics, start to get good ratings and to pad on your shoulder (which of course you never should ;), and then along comes some freak that posted a crappy holidays snapshot or, worse, nothing at all and rates some 1/1 or else without leaving any track!

Naturally, you ask this person for more feedback, friendly, via e-mail, just because you don´t want to start a public fight or because you are aware that all of us have good and bad days and maybe that´s why the person let´s you know that you produce trash only and you do not even hear anything!

OK, Brian, photo.net is not going to be of any value for decisions about my career but I do not know why I should invest anything personal here if lots of people just don´t care! I am not talking about some "black sheep" amongst the crowd, I am talking about a growing problem. I think it was not a good decision to delete the 1,2,7-rule.

Grees,

I have been affected, too. Falling from 68 ratings to 40 seemed to be kind of hard, but wtf. Just, I did not really get the point in Brians answer! OK, if someone got 400 ratings because the pics did not "cycle" it still depends on whether the pic is good or not. The statistical amount of ratings does not do any harm. So why delete ratings that have been given thoughtfully and in full conciousness?

And by the way: why did photo.net delete the rule with comments necessary on ratings like 1,2 or 7? I found that very clever!

Greetings everybody,