Should Ratings be removed from the Pictures Section?
 

Ok,
At members request we're having a poll. I'm going to run the poll until August. That should give active members enough time to vote this time round.

Dont forget that we are asking active members of the community.

Should Ratings be removed from the Pictures Section?

This is largely due to the fact certain members rate the pictures poorly using second or third accounts and without actually giving a reason in layman's terms it pisses in peoples cereal..

So please vote. This is important, I'd like to think that when I tell people about Joe dios. I'm talking about a good group of creative people who we learn from and enjoy being part of the same community.

Rich

Oh and Please note this vote is public. People can see your vote.

What I thought would be an easy decision actually took me a while to think through. At the end of the day I voted to remove the rating system for two main reasons. Firstly, it apparently can't be embedded into the reply system (if it could have been, I would have voted to retain it), and secondly (and more importantly) as I stated in the relevant thread, I would hate for a new member to become discouraged an quit posting because his photos received unexplained low ratings.
It's disappointing that we had to even make this decision because of some malcontent who lacks the courage (or intelligence) to put his name (and reasoning) to a low rating.

Rich, thanks for taking the bulls by the horn. YOu can see I STICKY'D this for now.

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No worries G. :D
I'm pretty much with Craig and most of the vets on this, its a shame we can't keep the ratings system, but it is flawed and obviously open to abuse.

Lets hope that with this poll we can get a clearer idea and perspective on whether it should be removed or not.

I voted to get rid of it.Time for a change with removing this system so the idiots have nothing to play with and give a bad score on good pics.

I will man up and admit I voted to keep it. Although my vote was cast in light of the fact that I don't use it and am really indifferent. My vote was motivated mainly by the trouble Big H and the others would have to go to to get rid of it! In hindsight Craig makes a very good point that new folk may be discouraged by some nerdowell giving them a bad rating and I definately don't want to see that! So consider one of the "keep it votes" a very weak keep it!

I chose no - just ignore the idiots for a few reasons.

Any voting system is broken because there are bound to be people that mess around with it.
But I've found it to be helpful in weeding out a few constructive criticisms once in a while.
Basically it all boils down to what people think, and people have various tastes. For my own personal use I can see why I didn't get a full score on one picture or a full score on another picture and try to learn from that. This hobby is not like that for everybody out there, but I actually try and improve my shots one by one - but again I tend to have some fun a long the way and post shots I like and know will fall into taste with some but be abhorred with others (but I think its fun and might give some inspiration to other ideas or pictures).

My 2 cents

There is no abuse of ratings going on. Half the photos posted should be getting an Average (3) rating just by simple definition of the word Average. The ratings are almost all 5, sometimes a 4. The rating system is not being used to attack other members, if anything people are being too nice with it's use.

I voted to keep the ratings. It's a lot of work to start altering the site just because some people think they deserve a perfect rating all the time.

other than the amount of yellow blocks on top of the picture what pupose does it serve?

I would rather people leave comments and if we want a ratting system just have them type 4 out of 5 starts.. or whatever... if it served a purpose then keep it

Does it serve a pupose other than telling you what people think of your picture?

I voted NO.
Could it be embedded into the reply system?
If yes, does it have a cost?
If yes, are we ready to cover it?