( cheating) What if.

[RossAndrew]

First time I have been to this forum and I was surprised at the amount of discussion about the cheating that was going on in the challengers.

A while ago I went to enter two challengers but before I was allowed too I had to have posted so many messages. So I went to the Open Talk Forum and ended up ruffling a few feathers when I suggested that some of the answers were a little long winded.

The one thing that seemed out of place here was that very few of these very wise people had ever voted or entered a challenge but had thousands of postings.

What if these people had to enter say one challenge and cast 100 votes every three months to be eligible to use the forums , hopefully it would dilute the voting pool enough to wash out vote rigging. As for the plagiarism we can only keep a watchful eye out.
( Hope this wasn't to long winded ).

 

[pitou250]

First time I have been to this forum and I was surprised at the amount of discussion about the cheating that was going on in the challengers.

yet there is more actual cheating going on than discussion about cheating.

A while ago I went to enter two challengers but before I was allowed too I had to have posted so many messages. So I went to the Open Talk Forum and ended up ruffling a few feathers when I suggested that some of the answers were a little long winded.

The one thing that seemed out of place here was that very few of these very wise people had ever voted or entered a challenge but had thousands of postings.

What if these people had to enter say one challenge and cast 100 votes every three months to be eligible to use the forums , hopefully it would dilute the voting pool enough to wash out vote rigging. As for the plagiarism we can only keep a watchful eye out.
( Hope this wasn't to long winded ).

So you say: in order to continue the endless discussions on the other forums they would have to enter a challenge and place a few votes from time to time?
I kind of like it ;-)

Then some of the trolls can show us what they are made of, and prove that their shots are worthy of a Gigapixel resolution camera with 17 stops of DR.

 

[leanneqld]

funny, but I have been thinking of something similar after reading a few posts in this forum today. I was thinking some kind of time qualification from sign up (say 4 months, 6 months) and/or paticipating in the forums before you could vote would stop friends who sign up just to vote for a friend's entry.
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[Slynky]

Well, Miss Rose, you are a windbag ! LOL

I keed...

First of all, most of the challenges don't require a minimum amount of posts (or comments) to enter. Some of the "chat" challenges have a small requirement. And when I first started doing challenges, there was a "post count" series. But otherwise, not many.

I see you used the word, windbags, in one of your replies...you must be making fiends in that forum...hehe.

I rather like your idea although it obviously comes with its own pitfalls--people entering a photo of their desk or dog or a blank wall just so they can put another "quarter in the meter" and continue wind-bagging. Who wants an endless amount of challenges cluttered up by an endless amount of "just find any old photo and enter it so I can keep chatting" photos. Which was one of the downfalls of requiring comments before being able to enter challenges.

Now, THERE! THAT'S wind-bagging

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(...from the generation that still uses capital letters and punctuation...)

 

[RossAndrew]

Where I come from we tend to call a spade a spade and I gave as good as I got and no more, but That's all water under the bridge now. The point I am trying to make and that you haven't touched on yet is to try to clean up the voting of any rigging, if the voting was increased even by a third it would surely help.

Who's to say that there desk,dog or blank wall wont win, any one with half a brain knows if you have to have a go then you may as well do your best and these people have more to gain than the rest of us. With all there knowledge of photography it can only lift the standard for every one.

When I look at your stat's I see 7 years 22 entry's 1300 votes cast ,six more entry's and you have made the grade, wasn't hard was it?

Apart from the muted attempt at sarcasm he he he he he , I think you are holding your end of the deal up well.

Thanks. Sly nky.

 

[Slynky]

Thanks.

In all seriousness, though, if we were to compare a (1) requirement to enter challenges in order to be able to keep posting to a (2) requirement to post in order to enter challenges, I can pretty much predict #1 is out the door. Forums are what they are--places to chat foremost (with other things secondary). I don't think (as we say here in the southern US) "that dog's gonna hunt".

Didn't say it wasn't worth considering, though. Just unlikely to ever happen. Heck, we've been trying to get DPR to do something about the rules they already have in place--without thinking about getting them to add more. LOL

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A veteran is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America," for an amount of "up to and including my life".

(...from the generation that still uses capital letters and punctuation...)

 

[eddiegforce]

When i look at all of those forums where the posts go on and on ad nauseum about MP's, sensors, noise, banding etc.

It reminds me of the old saying, "Those who can't do, teach".

However in this case it is preach.

Preach the gospel of the PIXELBATOR.

 

[Slynky]

:scratcheshead:
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A veteran is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America," for an amount of "up to and including my life".

(...from the generation that still uses capital letters and punctuation...)

 

[onlooker]

When i look at all of those forums where the posts go on and on ad nauseum about MP's, sensors, noise, banding etc.

They are gear forums. When you go to the stables, do you expect to see swans? If you don't want to read gear talk, why go there? Seriously - why?

It reminds me of the old saying, "Those who can't do, teach".

It is a bastardized version of the real one, by Aristotle: "Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach." Try understanding. Perhaps you will stop going where you don't want to be.

 

[RossAndrew]

The whole point of my posting in the first place was to increase the voting pool, so as to help stop people from loading up there votes and giving them an unfair advantage.

As to the members in question. When you see some of the gear these people have they can't be all teachers, and if they lift the standard of entry's it can only help poor old sods like me. It would also give some street cred to these members.

Yes my preamble may have a little ( long winded ). he he .

 

[BartyLobethal]

It is a bastardized version of the real one, by Aristotle: "Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach." Try understanding. Perhaps you will stop going where you don't want to be.

Excellent! I always thought the 'modernised' version was a bit hard on teachers (and no, I'm not a teacher).

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BartyL