I think that when an artist's scores for other entries are recorded, scores for
that artist's own entry of

            mean - 0.1 std dev

should be recorded for their own score!


Tom Melly wrote:

> Well, just had my first go at voting (gardens) and here, for what they are
> worth, are my thoughts about voting in general.
>
> Technical - I didn't vote on technical, since I only really know POV. I just
> gave everyone 10.
>
> It would have been nice to be able to give a neutral vote (ie. "N" meaning
> "I give this the average score for this particular image" - essentially
> saying that you trust the judgement of other voters) so that I could have
> given a technical score to the pov pictures. I don't know enough about stats
> to know if this would work.
>
> Alternatively, does anyone have any general info on the different packages
> that could be assembled on a web site to help guide voters? I don't mind
> doing the page if people send me anything useful.
>
> Artistic - as well as letting my own aethetic judgment have an influence on
> the score, I also tried to consider how well the artist had met their own
> intentions.
>
> Concept - low scores for off-topic, higher scores for an interesting use of
> the topic, or for an ambitious scene.
>
> General - I didn't read the text until after I'd voted, since IMHO it should
> be irrelevant. Only once did reading the text change my vote, and in this
> instance by bringing it down (I won't say which pic). I didn't penalise for
> pics that looked 2D, etc, as long as this was appropriate to the subject or
> tone of the pic - indeed a favourite entry couldn't look less like a
> raytrace.
>
> P.S. Looking forward to ruins already!

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