dnf-style

WT this sounds to a card problem to me.

So before you test every other thing, test another card.

Does not matter how old test 3 different cards.

Does the problem occur on all you know it's the cam and you should take it back to where you bought it from.

Frenk

Hey John,

WOW, not a spokesman? You defintely should be ;-)

Thanks for the very detailed reaction.

Participating in several forums Danielle and I are totally aware of the problems around rating and understand that you will NEVER be able to suit everyones needs and feels.

I'm not too upset about unfair ratings.

Please do not see my posting as a complaint towards Photo.net. I'm a non paying member so the question is if I even have any ground to be complaining. If that is what it seems then I should have chosen my words more carefully. No I totally understand the difficulty of the admins of photo.net

What I would like to know is the reason why the anonomous ratings are the default in the top photo ranking. Because that is what was so obvious with our last photo. It was placed in a weekend just after the latests update of the top photo section and the ratings it recieved in the first 4 hours placed it at the 3th position of the last 3 days default. Without putting it on a pedestal, it deserved to stand high in the ranking also (but that's a new discussion ;-) )

At least the photo did not deserve any 3's of 4's. But that is exactly what happened after the 4 hourly update of the top photo section.

I do understand that this is obvious to happen and you will never be able to grind that to a hold. But it is getting more value then it should by making this the default. Because everyone knows that voting anonomously now is the fastest way to get a top ranking out of the way. Since it is the default ranking everyone sees.

I really appreciate what Photo.net is doing and I probably should not have started this treath at all ;-)

I understand and agree that their is not any good rating system that is not up for abuse.

However what I do not understand is that Phot.net has the anonomous as a default in their top photo's section.

This way, I feel that, photo.net doesn't feel any need to disencourage this behaviour.

By the way, not allowing anonomous voting would certainly improve (not solve) the rating system, don't you agree?

Probably I'm number 1hundredsoandso to open this threath but I just got proof

from what I always thought.

I posted one of my best ever, got all 7,s and yess came up in postion 3 of last

3 days with the following 4 hours update.

As soon as that happened 3's 4's and 5's where handed out like cookies by

anonomous voters.

My question is why are these ononomous votes the standard for displaying the top

photo's.

Why are people who do not show who they are because the know the hand out low

ratings only to keep up their own pics given so much power?

This only encourages to vote low and anonomous doesn't it?

I can't believe photo.net does not know this is happening or does not know this

is certain to happen.

Frenk and Danielle