On Dec 21, 2010, at 9:14 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote:

> "I'm surprised anyone cares. Voting is a colossal waste of time."
> 
> My political philosophy.

That too.
Paul

Feeling inordinately gruff, after a horrible 24-hour flu.


> 
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 8:29 PM, paul stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> 
> wrote:
>> 
>> On Dec 21, 2010, at 7:03 PM, Jack Davis wrote:
>> 
>>> Reads as though you must have read my last email to Pentax.;) Seems to me 
>>> that if the voting is allowed to continue, the 20% criterion may be 
>>> ultimately met even though the image was allegedly toast at 60 votes. Makes 
>>> my head hurt.
>>> My guess is that many have become bored with voting and those who are may 
>>> be spending time on dead horse images.(??)
>>> 
>>> Jack
>> 
>> I'm surprised anyone cares. Voting is a colossal waste of time.
>> 
>>> 
>>> --- On Tue, 12/21/10, AlunFoto <alunf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> From: AlunFoto <alunf...@gmail.com>
>>>> Subject: Re: PPG VOTING
>>>> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net>
>>>> Date: Tuesday, December 21, 2010, 3:47 PM
>>>> 2010/12/21 Jack Davis <jdavi...@yahoo.com>:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I so don't get this, but I'm told that due to time
>>>> constraints, voting may go
>>>>> on beyond the 60 to as many as 200. Couldn't get a
>>>> clear answer as to why.
>>>>> Why should the largly dead horse voting be allowed to
>>>> continue, thus
>>>>> detracting from surviving image voting and delaying
>>>> the process?
>>>> 
>>>> My understanding is that If it gets 12 nays out of 60, it
>>>> is removed
>>>> from the queue and flagged as rejected on the artist's
>>>> page. If you
>>>> get a fast rejection, it's because of getting 12 nays
>>>> before reaching
>>>> a total of 60 votes.
>>>> 
>>>> What would be interesting to know is what happens as votes
>>>> accumulate
>>>> beyond 60. 12 out of 60 is 20%. Does that mean that if ever
>>>> a photo
>>>> tops 20% nays, it's out? That seems logical to me.
>>>> 
>>>> I assume votes can accumulate until presented to the Pentax
>>>> team. So
>>>> time constraints could very well be a way to say that the
>>>> team don't
>>>> have time to meet frequently enough to do away with the
>>>> queue at 60
>>>> votes.
>>>> 
>>>> Jostein
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