Thanks for passing on that tidbit, Jack. Now, I feel guilty for not voting more frequently.
Dan On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Jack Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > > So far as the peer voting is concerned, it was explained to me some time back > (by Pentax Carolyn) that an image that receives 20 no votes out of 60 is > automatically declined. > If it only receives 19 no votes, it is passed along to the Pentax Team for > final review. > > J > > --- On Tue, 5/19/09, Bong Manayon <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Bong Manayon <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: PENTAX Photo Gallery >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >> Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 8:29 AM >> The way I understand the inner >> workings of PPG is that upon submitting >> photos it undergoes the peer voting and if it passes that >> it goes >> through the judge(s) of Pentax Gallery. The peer >> voting may take up >> to two weeks or so; it was said somewhere that a unanimous >> positive >> vote of a sample group (it seems impractical to have all >> 1000+ members >> to vote) of maybe 20(?) can get your photo in within that >> two week >> period. >> >> Photos which do not get the vote (less than half of 20?) >> gets declined >> while the ones that did now goes under the scrutiny of the >> webmasters >> of PPG and sits around 'under review' for another week or >> so. Applying >> this may show that your photo accepted in the 2nd group >> must have >> passed peer voting with flying colors while the ones >> lingering from >> the 1st group may have passed but are now waiting for the >> decision of >> the PPG gods. >> >> It also seems now that PPG gets updated by batches; I >> imagine the work >> involved adding photos and those updates seem to take place >> around >> every 3 weeks. Those waiting 'under review' here does >> not seem to >> guarantee acceptance having as much chance as those voted >> on in the >> peer selection. >> >> One thing I noticed though, is that details can matter in >> the >> selection of the PPG judges. I had a couple of >> 'PORTRAITS' declined >> but when I resubmitted them under ' GLAMOR' were accepted. >> I have also >> figured that you can only have so many photos entitled >> 'Sunset'. So >> often I edit the details of photos declined after 3 weeks >> (those >> reject by PPG itself) by changing the title, adding or >> deleting a >> category. I had a couple of photos accepted that way; >> however it >> works only with the latter process. Something >> declined in peer voting >> instantly stays declined when you change the details which >> may not >> matter in that process. >> >> All this has all be based on hunch and stuff I heard from >> others... >> >> Bong >> >> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Daniel J. Matyola >> <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Does anyone have any insights into how the photo >> selection process for >> > the PENTAX Gallery works? I am just curious. >> > >> > A while back, I submitted a group of images. Two >> weeks later, no >> > action had been taken on the first group, and I >> submitted a second >> > group. >> > >> > After another week or two, one from the second group >> was accepted, and >> > most of the others were "declined." Four images from >> the first group >> > remained "under review," however. Does it mean >> anything that they >> > were kept in that category while others submitted at >> the same time or >> > two weeks later have been processed? >> > >> > While I am mostly curious about the procedure, I guess >> I am also >> > trying to convince myself that the remaining images >> have purposely >> > been singled out and therefore have a decent change of >> making the >> > gallery, even though that seems unlikely, based on my >> limited >> > knowledge of the system and limited past experience. >> > >> > Dan >> > >> > -- >> > 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. >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Bong Manayon >> http://www.bong.uni.cc >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
