On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 12:52 PM, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Erickson" > Subject: PPG Brain Damaged Voting System > > > > My assessment of the Pentax Photo Gallery is that it encourages > > brain-damaged "snap judgements". It provides 5 thumbnails at a time, and > > viewers must vote on all images before getting to the next set. There's no > > way to skip voting on any images, and there's no "neutral" vote. Viewers > > don't have to even look at full sized images before voting on them. It's > > just too easy to vote "thumbs down" on everything, particularly images that > > don't represent well in tiny thumbnails but may be breathtaking when viewed > > "full size". > > > > My recommendation would be to show voters more thumbnails, and require > > images to be viewed full size for, say, 15 seconds before allowing a vote > to > > be recorded. > > > The Pentax Photo Gallery buggered themselves as soon as they went to peer > voting, and from the > looks of it, have fucked things up even worse. It's too bad, as the concept > is quite good, and I > am sure that the pictures are very nice. > I stopped looking at the thing when they decided that judging by > incompetents was de rigeur.
I don't vote any more, so your ok now Bill. :-) Dave > > William Robb > > > > > -- > 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. > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- 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.
