Yes, please send the info from the gallery people. -- Bruce
Monday, November 19, 2007, 8:04:29 AM, you wrote: A> Jack Davis wrote: >> I take the gist of your question to be one asking if those who have >> submitted images to the gallery, but who have had none accepted, should >> be allowed to vote on other submissions. My answer is "yes", IF it's >> permitted for those whose work has been accepted. A> That's not what I was after at all. And you didn't answer the question... :-) A> My point is this: A> If it is so that only the submitting photographers vote, it's not at A> all surprising that it takes a fortnight to get the pics through the A> procedure. A> We know that 40 votes are required for each photo before it is A> presented to the jury (if I'm the only one to have received this info, A> I'll forward the mail from the Gallery people). IOW, the process will A> take as long as it takes 40 photographers to log on and cast votes, A> plus the time it takes the Pentax jury to provide the final verdict. A> As one who vote frequently, I know there are literally hundreds of A> photos passing through the system every week. From looking at the EXIF A> metadata in the shots, it also seems likely that each photographer A> submit 5-10 pictures per round of verdicts from Pentax. Which means A> that with eg. 300 shots per week, you have a pool of 30-60 voting A> photographers. A> Assume 60 photographers, and each would have to vote for 200 photos a A> week to grind all the submissions through the mill. A> There are currently 500 published photographers in the gallery, btw. A> Jostein A> -- A> http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ A> http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
