starshine

Photo.net hosts an enormous number of photos. Finding the "best pictures" we need some help from the system. Ratings could help us except that they won't mainly because we are too lazy or simply do not take the time to rate each other's photos (e.g. some of my photos had > 20000 views but less than 20 ratings) and not because of the low-raters. I mustn't mind the low ratings: as they mean that somebody found my picture worth rating:), but I do mind the low ratings because low-raters are more industrious than the majority of us and the ordering of the photos on the gallery pages are based on the number/average of the ratings

But what I really miss here are the critiques. But no restrictions on the ratings could help. E.g. If the system allowed only ratings accompanied by critiques then the number of ratings would decrease even more.

Then what can the maintainers do to make the rating system better? What about a change in the method the average of the rating is calculated? Drop one of the lowest and one of the highest ratings and use the remaining ratings only. This way the occasional low (or high) raters are elliminated.