David Buck wrote:
> Nimish wrote:
> 
>> "Hildur K." <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>>
>>> In the past the voting, as most people here are aware of, was based 
>>> on three
>>> different scores, Artistic, Technical and Interpretation of the 
>>> Topic. The
>>> score was given on a scale from 1-20.
>>
>>
>> I too would like to agree with the aforementioned.  Speaking from the 
>> amateur's
>> point of view, the individualized scoring helped a great deal more on 
>> my first
>> submissions than did the (at times nonexistent) comments.  In addition,
>> personally I am finding it rather difficult to vote on a pure basis 
>> from one to
>> ten, and find myself giving a score in the three categories and 
>> averaging them.
>>
> 
> I recall a long debate about this topic where many people said that they 
> seldom gave different scores in the three categories and the range 1-20 
> was too large.  I've forgotten where this debate took place and can't 
> locate it right now.  As I recall, though, we seemed to agree on a 10 
> point range and checks for technical, artistic and conceptual.
> 
> In any event, I'm happy to change it if we can get a reasonable consensus.
> 
> David Buck

Just tried out the voting system.  Personally I like it VERY much.  Much 
simpler and with a greater emphasis on comments. There will no doubt be 
resistence because of the rougher granularity, ten stars instead of 
twenty.  I think this is because people want to make fine 
discriminations within a center range so they don't feel they are being 
too nasty or committing. Really they are still just using about five or 
ten grades but because it is cradled in a larger range they don't feel 
so bad. It is a mental discipline that you are really making a ranking 
and someone comes last.  So you might as well give that someone a single 
star.  But this may be too great an illusion for people to overcome.

One thing.  I seem to recall that with the old system, someone had 
written a program that, if you downloaded the thumbs and images, it 
helped you organize your voting  giving you different sorts to show how 
you ranked the images against each other.  I found that program VERY 
helpful.  Being able to get a page that displayed the images in order of 
how you have ranked them would be a very helpful feature if ever 
possible down the road.

-Jim

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