PPG Brain Damaged Voting System

[William Robb]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Erickson"
Subject: PPG Brain Damaged Voting System


> My assessment of the Pentax Photo Gallery is that it encourages
> brain-damaged "snap judgements".  It provides 5 thumbnails at a time, and
> viewers must vote on all images before getting to the next set.  There's no
> way to skip voting on any images, and there's no "neutral" vote.  Viewers
> don't have to even look at full sized images before voting on them.  It's
> just too easy to vote "thumbs down" on everything, particularly images that
> don't represent well in tiny thumbnails but may be breathtaking when viewed
> "full size".
>
> My recommendation would be to show voters more thumbnails, and require
> images to be viewed full size for, say, 15 seconds before allowing a vote to
> be recorded.


The Pentax Photo Gallery buggered themselves as soon as they went to peer voting, and from the 
looks of it, have fucked things up even worse. It's too bad, as the concept is quite good, and I 
am sure that the pictures are very nice.
I stopped looking at the thing when they decided that judging by incompetents was de rigeur.

William Robb