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.

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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.

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

No worries G.
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.

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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.

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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!

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Can't decide. How's that for contributing nothing?

I'd say that 1-5 scale is too limited. It means an above average photo is good and a below one is bad...hardly seems accurate. I've been more a 10 point scale person.