Mark Roberts wrote: > Scott Loveless wrote: > > >> Unless I'm missing something obvious, other than a brand name >there is >> > nothing to separate the critiquing abilities of Pentax users > >> vs. those people in the "deleteme" flickr group. With their new >> peer review system the judges might not even see an HCB photo >> because it's too blurry, or miss out on a wonderful photograph >> because a few site users don't appreciate its content. >> > > That's true, but you're making an awful lot of assumptions on how the > system works. For all we know, they may be using the member votes as > simply an advisory and allowing the "official" judges to still pick > anything they like. That's certainly how I'd do it - for exactly the > reasons you note, but we simply don't know. >
You could be right, and I hope you are. But I really think they're using the voting system to weed out the bad photos so the judges only have to look at the good ones. There is probably nothing to prevent them from looking at the pictures that were voted down. How does one decide which "bad" photos to look at? And if they're going to look at them at all, what's the point of having the users vote? It certainly won't save them much time. From the FAQ: *How does my vote influence what images appear on the Photo Gallery?* Your vote determines what images are presented to the selection committee. The Photo Gallery artist community makes sure the best images are presented for acceptance. *What happens to my votes?* Your votes are used to sort the images so that the best are presented to the acceptance committee. PENTAX makes the final determination of which images will appear in the Gallery. Sounds to me that once our peers vote down a photo it's most likely gone and forgotten. > >> I'm certainly not qualified to judge other's photographs. >> > > I definitely disagree with you on that one ;-) > > Next time you show us an unbelievably good print at GFM I'm going to say it's crap. <g> -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
