ocddoug opened this issue on Nov 19, 2003 ยท 74 posts
drawbridgep posted Thu, 20 November 2003 at 2:54 PM
With the normal gallery I tend to only click if it's something that looks good, or it's by one of the usual gang (if those are mutally exclusive ;-) It's easy to skip the crapola. But with the H20 it's a bit of a shame that a legit picture might have been knocked out or never made it in because of this vote fixing. it's just a bit unfair. I wonder how many pictures I could have had in the H20 if not for cheats? (Probably the same number :-( BUT I'm also guilty. I very rarely give votes for images unless it's really impressive. Maybe I should give votes a bit more easily in order to help get a true H20.
Maybe the real problem is fake accounts. I wonder if there's a solution there. IP logging is tricky and invasive. And would be unfair again to some users that share the same machine.
And on a similar theme, the rating system is really pretty meaningless. I stopped using it when my own pictures all started to get excellent ratings, even when I wasn't totally happy myself. Maybe scrap it, or have an option to hide it for people that want to. Or maybe I'll just continue to ignore it.