Bruce Dayton has more than 30 as well. -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: AlunFoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Okay, I'll share what I've found out. > > Data as of a couple of days ago. > > Number of published photographers: 500 (exactly!) > Total no. of pictures: 3377 > Average no. of pics per photographer: 6.75 > > To the statistically minded, it might also be interesting to know that > the median is 3. > > There are 89 photographers with more than 10 images. Those 89 people > contribute 62 % of the total number of pictures. > > 139 photographers have 1 pic each. 23 have more than 30. The latter > group contains prominent PDML'ers like Mark Roberts, Mark Cassino, Ken > Waller and Paul Stenquist. > > Okay, that's it for the number crunching. > > Then to the claim of 40 votes per image. Below is a quoted mail from > Cathy Tarter at Pentax. It says "currently 40 or more". Jack Davis and > I have discussed this off-list before, and I got the impression that > his info referred to the number of "nay"s needed to produce a reject. > His number was 20 votes. > > Sometimes there are very fast rejects, usually after around 4-5 days. > I therefore believe that there is a threshold number of nays that > trigger an automatic reject, and that this number is precisely 20 > based on Jack's info. Another observation is that if my photos stays > in the "awaiting review" pool for more than a week, they seem to have > significantly more than 50% likelihood of acceptance. > > So who exactly do the voting? Just can't help my curiosity. :-) > > Jostein > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: photogallery___PAIC_MKT > To: =[My email removed] > Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 10:51 PM > Subject: RE: PENTAX Photogallery Contact Us Form > > > Hello Jostein, > > > > We are using the voting process to help limit the number of images we > have to review. As for a timeframe, it's difficult to say. Pentax > looks to the artists to vote on images - we take this tallied vote > (currently 40 or more votes per image) into consideration when we > accept or decline an image: > > [screendump of voting criteria skipped] > > Cathy Tarter > > Pentax Imaging Company > > 600 12th Street, Suite 300 > > Golden, CO 80401 > > > > > > > > > -- > http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ > http://alunfoto.blogspot.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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