clorophilla

the low-rater striked just few times ago, between 11 and 13 TD time... if it wasn't riddiculous, it shoud be annoying...

Shanley

Lol, that sounds like fun. Interesting suggestion Bhughes.
The goal of the current voting system is to help TD chose the pics that should be in Top5 and to discourage the downvoting (1* votes do not count...not very sure if I'm being accurate here though).
A new type of voting system would complicate the process.Still, I find it very useful for the artist to receive a feedback on the votes there. Knowing what exactly was appreciated counts. We do have the comment option for this though. :|

bhughes

I would think that the 1-5 ratings would sum to a total at the end adding up every time instead of detracting. If not I have sabotaged my own work after finding that I could vote on myself. Is there a way to categorize like the voting process on "Iron chef" 1. imagination/creativity 2. visual aspects... 3. use of tools... etc. (whatever is needed). Just a thought.

matthew

Never noticed this issue before... is this something new???

Qsilv

I like Shanley's points VERY much.

And I'll add that this place really functions best as an artists' workshop.
We've each got our own easel and paints....
...two or three "themes for the week" to stir our imaginations...
and we can walk around, looking at each other's experiments...
discussing them... leaving notes to be seen and savored by the others....
and going off to try for ourselves some of the techniques we've observed.

There's a lot of banter back and forth between us.... but it's meant to be as good natured as it would be in a "real world" studio or atelier.

At a "real" physical workshop, people would NOT be anonymous, nor of course could they manage to be rude without everyone else absolutely staring at them!

There might be mini-contests, but the only "prizes" are little gold stars plus a little record of our sessions kept in the workshop's archives.

All in all, a well-run workshop offers a marvelously rich and safe environment, with quite minor disappointments in ourselves now and then, and lots of support from the folks around us.