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What does voting for an image do?

PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2003 2:02 pm
by tamn
What happens when you vote for an image? I know that voting for a gallery improves it's standing in the list of popular galleries, but there doesn't seem to be a most popular images search... unless photos with votes are more likely to show up on the random page?

Just curious :)
Thanks!
-Mike
(aka Tamn)

PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2003 3:07 pm
by slug
a 90% complete feature, but the clicks are being recorded.

take a look at http://www.pbase.com/galleries?view=popular_photos
which has the results. (note this page doesn't currently automaticallly update, so will be empty after a few days)

at the moment, there is not very much voting going on i think because there is not much incentive.
will revisit this eventually to make it more fun/useful.

-slug

PostPosted: Fri Jul 18, 2003 6:25 am
by francist
slug wrote:a 90% complete feature, but the clicks are being recorded.

-slug


That's a good feature, Slug.
Thanks for implementing it, and congratulations for this new forum.

Francis Toussaint

PostPosted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 5:24 am
by snoozer
i would have thought a fairer way would be via the 'hit' count a gallery or foto receives ?

surely this would be a true indication of popularity ?

perhaps we could have a feature to sort by either (votes or hit count)

zzzz..

PostPosted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 2:47 pm
by ltobias
snoozer wrote:i would have thought a fairer way would be via the 'hit' count a gallery or foto receives ?

surely this would be a true indication of popularity ?


Untill your own visit make an hit you will never have a real indication of popularity.

PostPosted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 6:09 pm
by thresholdprod
ltobias wrote:
snoozer wrote:i would have thought a fairer way would be via the 'hit' count a gallery or foto receives ?

surely this would be a true indication of popularity ?


Untill your own visit(don't) make an hit you will never have a real indication of popularity.


By actual voting(from members) it would give a truer count.Other wise there's nothing stopping someone from logging out or using a different computer to drive up there popularity.

Great feature. I love it.

Bill

A 90% Feature

PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 2:23 am
by andag1
slug wrote:a 90% complete feature, but the clicks are being recorded.

take a look at http://www.pbase.com/galleries?view=popular_photos
which has the results. (note this page doesn't currently automaticallly update, so will be empty after a few days)

at the moment, there is not very much voting going on i think because there is not much incentive.
will revisit this eventually to make it more fun/useful.

-slug

Yes. I think people are more apt to vote for individual images if there is a tab for quick and easy access to the results.

PostPosted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 2:01 am
by sheila
What is the criteria for images appearing in the "Vote for Image" gallery? Maybe when the image has had, say, 10 or more votes, then it should be in the gallery. Sound fair, Slug?

Cheers
Sheila