I say stay with it. But people must know how to rate things. The process must be serious and overlooked. I myself enjoy rating other people's works and putting mine up for the rate. I should also say that one of the gallery judges should over look the shot before it goes in the gallery too. By far the shots in the gallery aren't all bad.  Also people should be motivated and really put effort in their shots. I see some shots that wouldn't compete with gallery Worthy shots and expect 9s and 10s.

if it gets too bad then I wouldn't mind letting it go.

As far as I'm concerned, stay with it, but we have to remain critical. A lot of 9.5-10's have been flying past, but then we've also seen a few really great shots (and some not so good). My suggestion would be that passing the grades allows the pic to be considered for gallery selection by the judges. If they decide it is good/not good enough, and tell us their final judgement, then we might have something here.
As for me, my aim isn't really to get a shot in the gallery (although that would be nice), but to get some constructive criticism on my screenshots. I notice that when I post something in the payware gallery (I fly mainly payware), very often you get hardly any remarks, or the odd "nice shot", whereas here often you do get some solid opinions ('needs more zoom, awful clouds' etc).  In the end, I like showing what I do, but I also like to improve...

The problem as I see it is that quite often we get shots that get a few good ratings but they never end up getting enough to tell whether or not they could've/would've got into the gallery.  Maybe we could lower the number of ratings needed to something like 8 or 6.

Another problem I feel is that whether or not the shot gets into the gallery simply depends on who gets there first to rate it. You could post the same shot twice and have completely different results. I think it might be an idea to have a team of judges, and they're the only ones that can give ratings that'll contribute towards it getting into the gallery. Others can of course provide ratings but those ratings are for the author of the shot to learn from, and they don't contribute towards the shot's final score. This should also solve the first problem I stated if Clipper wished to keep the number of ratings needed the same.

Still, I love the 'rate this' feature and I sincerely feel it should stay. It's fantastic!!

EDIT; sorry to be tearing this to pieces, but I have just thought of another problem; if a shot has garnered 8 or 9 ratings and needs a high-ish rating to get in, people may be inclined to rate higher than they actually feel so as not to disappoint the person whose shot it is.

krigl wrote on Dec 29^th, 2007 at 2:35pm:


A good point, as I see there are quite a few pics that only receive 3-4 ratings and then nothing. There's nothing wrong with low scores, you want to know where you stand, don't you? Also, posters ask for a rating, so please give one. If a poster can't handle low ratings, he should either improve, or stop posting. If some people don't like a shot, that's fine, we all have different tastes, but remain constructive I would say, tell what you don't like,and how things could be improved, so everybody learns from that. That was the point of Studio V after all, wasn't it?

Have it say, once a fortnight? Studio V, for the second time, has strayed away from what it is here for. Sure, we host contests to test your screenshot skill, but it is also here to help others, offering helpful tips and hints. For five pages, it has filled up with "rate this." I am too scared to go beyond that page really. In my opinion, it needs to "tap the brakes a little" on the contests, and consolidate its helpful hints and tips.

What about each member creating a Poll saying Rate this.
Options one through 10.
Each member votes.  Let's say you get a 10 when your 10 gets to a certain percentage.

Any thoughts or care to elaborate as I am in the middle of something?
Dave

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