 Posted 5/7/2008 8:52:04 PM
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A message that I sent to those names and also to you . It was blocked from delivery to you . Maybe those folks will share it with you . I extended much gratitude to what seemed to be areas of thankless work so many have put in . That if they knew of others they would like to share it with they are welcome to . It has a large insight to a voting target or sabotage that happened recently . Please look in to this for me I would greatly appreciate this . Bobby
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Posted 5/7/2008 9:01:55 PM
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Robert, you are staying on DA right? Just wanted to make sure 
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Posted 5/8/2008 2:27:19 AM
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| ????????????????????????? Bobby
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Posted 5/8/2008 3:49:48 AM
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| I too am trying to understand the depth of your series of posts let's see if I can restate it then you can tell me if I got it right. Your concerns are that an image once posted gathers a bunch of votes right off and a good number of them are from higher weighted voters. After some period of time the higher weighted voters stop voting and the lower weighted voters are the only ones that are voting. Good so far? I am hearing you say that you think this is done on purpose to thwart your efforts to achieve some level of awards, primarily monthly and the holy grail a yearly. Did I get that right? You are experiencing numerous votes from a low weighted member? Is that correct?
Chris
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Posted 5/8/2008 4:37:00 AM
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It sounded to me like he is getting high votes from many members but then there are a few of the same members who come along and give 5's and 6's every time to images that are getting 7's and 8's..these lower votes are always in the first fifteen and from the same people...
?? Did I get any of that right?
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Posted 5/8/2008 5:08:02 AM
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| Yes both ways . There will be a few images that have upwards of 60 votes . Weights of 200(3 total ) or more in first 16 votes and three weeks of everyone else. Some images immediate post and hit by the same tandem of voters. Simply two voters went through 35 images in 2 hrs. Where as no member that I can tell with weight of 200 or more has voted on 60 % of those same images. Some have been up 40 plus days . Almost all of my images will go to archive on their own .
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Posted 5/8/2008 5:09:17 AM
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| Case in point was my portrait image Allison .
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Posted 5/8/2008 5:50:14 AM
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| None of what you have described seems unusual to me. Lately I have been voting on a average of 30 images a day. With 5000+ images in the pool it is unlikely I will hit many of your images. Given that there are only a few members over 200 then I can see where it would drop off quickly. There are some members that vote on many images every day so they have fewer images that they can go through before they hit one of yours, they are, in fact seeing the freshest images in the database. I too find that the first voters to vote on my images but I always thought it to be because they are voting at the end of of the buffer. As to what they they choose to vote, I can't speak to that.
Chris
There are 10 types of people in this world, those that understand binary and those that don't.
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Posted 5/8/2008 5:52:49 AM
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Excellent post, Chris. I agree with everything you said. I'm half afraid to even vote nowadays.
Bob, I don't pay as much attention to the votes I get as you. I do know that just in the past few weeks, I've had 5 or 6 images doing really well and maintaining a low 8 average (signature) then, it seems the longer they're in the voting pool, the lower the average goes. I get an awful lot of 6's and more 5's than I've ever received. There are a couple who are unmasked who routinely score my shots 1 or 2 points below their average. I just always attributed it to the fact that they didn't care for the subject (I shoot an awful lot of birds) or as in the case with very low weight ppl, they just haven't gotten used to the site or they are inexperienced, etc. I never thought about it being target voting.
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