jay_dixon

Here is my honest opinion on how to generate more overall ratings and critiques which may or may not shift the emphasis away from clique driven ratings.

1)As of now, navigating newly posted images is amzingly unclear. Having a recently loaded page that goes back strictly chronologically would really make finding thumbs more straightforward and you could browse back through the pages. (Sounds like photosig without the cumulative point structure.)

2) Possibly putting critique requests in a similar thumb based page system. As of now the only way for one of my images to get noticed is to request a critique. I notice that many top-rated images have no critique requests, and arrive there from the early clique driven method. Once this happens, I agree with Marc, if you rate lower, people tend to get testy. Last month, I had the most viewed, rated on and commentented on image on the entire site outside of the POW's, and I know that requesting a critique played the strongest role in that. It just jumped to the front of many different search variations. So it had an unfair advantage by the end of the first week.

3) As Marc said, limiting a users highs for a given time period may reduce the overall clique driven inflation somewhat.

4) Navigation is the key to seeing images not restricted to just a small percentage of the photographers. It has to be opened up somehow, in order to spread the wealth. I like the site, but am restricted to the front pages for any easy navigation, and the front pages are in large part essentially clique driven.

I'm in the care very much, but normally keep quiet group. The

inflation within the specific groups is not just related to photo.net.

You find it everywhere in art. There isn't really much one can do,

because humans will always find a work around. My only

reasons to visit critque sites have become learning, and sharing

thoughts. If it weren't, human nature would destroy my

enjoyment. The clique mentality is a shame, but seemingly

unavoidable.

I need advice on times and results for developing Agfa 100 in xtol. 1:1 or 1:2

dilutions would be great. Also, does anyone have any opinion on results with

Agfa 100 in TMax developer? Any thoughts in these areas would help. J.

I posted ratings earlier today that didn't take. The system is a

little buggy. It has slowed so down so much in the last 5 months

that I can come once every few days and the numbers look the

same. Before they switched from the old top-rated page

changes were immediate. My ratings earlier today just might

show up next week. I have no idea why everything is sooo slow.