"Daniel J. Matyola" <[email protected]> wrote: > Lately I have run >across a number of cases when the same person submitted three to five >virtually identical images. Generally, I either like them all or none >of them. If I like the image, and vote on the first one I see, I >don't know that very similar shots are about to pop up. I don't want >to vote for 5 of the same thing, but sometimes the second or third >shot is a bit better than the first displayed. There is no way to >"take back" a vote once caste. (One could do that under the old >voting system, if they showed up on the same page.) What are others >doing in these situations? Should we vote for two or three, and let >the photographer delete any duplicates, or vote for only one on >principle?
Good question. Under the old system, I'd generally vote "no" on all the images if I saw someone was using the shotgun approach: If you can't decide which of your images is the right one to submit you need to go away and think about it some more. Of course, occasionally you'd get one lone image and vote Yes only to find later that there were half a dozen near clones also up for voting. I'd rely on the second level of selection (the people at Pentax) to screen out the dupes. (I've met some of the official Pentax judges and asked about the multiple near-identical shots: "we don't see any of those" said one of them with a grin.) But that raises a question: Is there still a two-tier judging system in place? Do the peer-voted images that are accepted still have to pass through acceptance by Pentax USA officials? I haven't seen this explicitly stated anywhere, though I may have missed it. -- 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.
