Challenge #7 voting started

[blulegend]

I personally would not want to vote on all 50 images. That would take much longer than clicking the link to view all thumbnails at once and going through and picking which ones I like. The only time I use the direct link to the thumbnail for an image is to make sure I'm voting on the right one.

Comments can be made on any image in the general comments section during voting.

Also, PBase will not allow me to embed their images on my site so I cannot make the thumbnails visible without linking and popping up a new window.

Also, I feel that many people get way to sensitive with their images they enter. Personally, I feel that I enter an image to get exposure. If it gets votes, that's even better. But these challenges, I feel, are for fun and for learning photography.

However, I am thinking of changing the number of votes users get based on the number of entries. This will take a lot of recoding. Any changes to the voting scheme will require a lot of reworking since I threw the booth together without making the code scalable.

-Jack

My idea for an ideal voting process would be to have a long list of
all the thumbnails (and links to the full image), each with their
own box for comments and score (using radio buttons?), so the
voters can quickly go through and rank/comment on all of the shots
after browsing through the PBase gallery.

Michael

Furthermore, this is why I think it would be better to allow
comments on the photos. This would allow submitters to get some
sort of feedback for their work. If they get it early enough they
might be able to improve their picture before the voting actually
begins. This is kind of the reason why I created the critique
gallery.

Hmmm, I wonder if it would be possible to change the way the voting
works? I kinda like the way the voting works at this site:
http://www.dpchallenge.com

What do you guys and gals think?

Michael

 

[Klaorman]

You're right! He's a dead ringer for Bush!

Klaorman

Is it just me, or does the guy in the excellent 'Kashgar Market'
picture look like George Bush working undercover ?

 

[Mickey64564]

Would it be possible to create a script to download the thumbnails from the PBase server to yours and use those in the voting booth? If not, I'd be willing to save them all and send them to you with some sort of consistent naming convention so that you could script the page to load these right in the voting booth page. If we can get all of the thumbnails to display in the voting page, and use radio buttons for scoring along with a text box for comments, I think the voting process could be much more streamlined and easier (IMO) because we wouldn't have to eliminate some of the excellent runner-ups and give equally deserving photos the same score.

Here's a rough idea of what I was thinking of: http://www.morpheusmultimedia.com/votetest/vote.html . Unfortunately I have no idea how to code this. I don't mean to knock your existing setup...it's very well done and far more advanced coding than I could do (at least in HTML), but I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on this type of setup.

Michael

P.S. Thanks for all of your work on the voting booth so far...it's really added a whole new dimension to the challenges!

I personally would not want to vote on all 50 images. That would
take much longer than clicking the link to view all thumbnails at
once and going through and picking which ones I like. The only
time I use the direct link to the thumbnail for an image is to make
sure I'm voting on the right one.

Comments can be made on any image in the general comments section
during voting.

Also, PBase will not allow me to embed their images on my site so I
cannot make the thumbnails visible without linking and popping up a
new window.

Also, I feel that many people get way to sensitive with their
images they enter. Personally, I feel that I enter an image to get
exposure. If it gets votes, that's even better. But these
challenges, I feel, are for fun and for learning photography.

However, I am thinking of changing the number of votes users get
based on the number of entries. This will take a lot of recoding.
Any changes to the voting scheme will require a lot of reworking
since I threw the booth together without making the code scalable.

-Jack