Well of course the lack of explanation of the low rating hurts, but I got actually more upset about one low rating with the explanation.
I have a friend who is posting his photos on photo.net. I personally like them a lot, but I understand that someone might be of opposite opinion. The last photo posted by my friend was a little experiment and he put it there not for praise but clearly asking for help with improving it.
Apparently many people liked the shot as it was because it made it yesterday to the top rated photos. And there came a rating with a comment:
"I?m impressioned with the most people on this site, loves landscapes and animals. Ok, there are many nice landscapes as this one, but i think to pic deserve to be between top photos, needs to have a great originality and different soul. All of them have the same perspective, and it makes me tired about. I would like to see a very original landscape, but its not easy. 3/3"
This is I think a complete misuse of the system! First of all that guy gave the bad rating just to take away the shot from the top rated list. And because it was a landscape photo. Even though he writes he liked it.
Well, what perspective of a landscape does he want? His and only his?
Why this guy is trying to manipulate the deserved position of good photo (since it was rated anonymously)? He clearly was not giving any constructive feedback. Rather a show of jealousy.
That is why I would rather see people like that leaving (even bad) ratings without (even worse) comments.
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Well of course the lack of explanation of the low rating hurts, but I got actually more upset about one low rating with the explanation.
I have a friend who is posting his photos on photo.net. I personally like them a lot, but I understand that someone might be of opposite opinion. The last photo posted by my friend was a little experiment and he put it there not for praise but clearly asking for help with improving it.
Apparently many people liked the shot as it was because it made it yesterday to the top rated photos. And there came a rating with a comment:
"I?m impressioned with the most people on this site, loves landscapes and animals. Ok, there are many nice landscapes as this one, but i think to pic deserve to be between top photos, needs to have a great originality and different soul. All of them have the same perspective, and it makes me tired about. I would like to see a very original landscape, but its not easy. 3/3"
This is I think a complete misuse of the system! First of all that guy gave the bad rating just to take away the shot from the top rated list. And because it was a landscape photo. Even though he writes he liked it.
Well, what perspective of a landscape does he want? His and only his?
Why this guy is trying to manipulate the deserved position of good photo (since it was rated anonymously)? He clearly was not giving any constructive feedback. Rather a show of jealousy.
That is why I would rather see people like that leaving (even bad) ratings without (even worse) comments.