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Originally Posted by Jay
But when there's nothing but positive comments in the picture's thread but a crap rating, how is one to learn what he did wrong that he may work on improving that in subsequent photos?
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erm.. he reads the comments people have put... obviously if he has 10+ comments all saying its a great photo and great setup/execution and then a rating of 2* then someone has obviously downgraded it bad without commenting why.. either because they dont like the figure choice or because they simply dont like the picture.... Anyone active in this community will know by now the ratings have been abused before by other people.
Hence why we are discussing this. It's only really a problem if you believe the rating system cant be abused.
The fact of the matter is if the ratings were like Outrider said.. embedded into the 'add reply/comment' then it would stop the one star bandit from commenting and stop people giving out harsh ratings without even saying why they rated it like that. With the current setup we all come to the site and rate and comment at the same time most of the time everyone is happy, we only seem to get this when the one star bandit shows up.
I think we did a poll last time >
Poll *am I right?* correct me if I'm wrong, when this was raised. If I see something I think can be improved and i've rated it, i'll comment for sure and especially if its justifiable. The bottom line is like sonneilon stated recently
"some shots are of poor standard, they are out of focus and the posing is awful" if the contributor gets 26 views, no comments and a 1* it should be pretty obvious to him without 15 members leaving comments telling him whats wrong.
So has Hammerfel already stated, the ratings system can stay in place or it can be removed, we only have to tell him that it should be removed.. but if its going to stay you all need to adapt and just realise there are people out there with a 'sad life' and that no matter how many times they think they are going to ruin our contributions.. it wont matter... because we are stronger.
Most of the veterans have posted on this thread, as I expected, its always a touchy subject because of the topic and because i think last time we voted a good proportion decided to keep it whilst a handful wanted it gone.
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edited to include the link above. 01:11