stevedover1965

Again ... I speculate as to where are all of the voters.

stevedover1965

Again ... I speculate as to where are all of the voters. 3/6/11

My landscape the Farthest Shore is my most detailed and richest picture yet it took considerable time and effort to produce and will never be replicated yet it took 2 days to reach 14 votes and stopped moving. I fully appreciate the lovely comments which I received from my friends on TD but when it comes to popularity I guess I fall short. I would dearly have liked to have seen this work receive a Top 5 position but for some reason I have lost favor with voters. It's the comments & votes that fuel my pictures without them I will fade away. It's not just this picture others have suffered from lack of interest. I guess you are all thinking there he goes again ranting for no reason, well I am sorry about that, probably need to get out more. Again to those who do vote and leave comments thank you thank you, It's everyone else who appreciates without voting and commenting those who remain anonymous within this forum, the viewer who sits back and looks but keeps their opinions to themselves no votes no comments, these are the TD people who need to be objective and vote for the picture, this is not a popularity contest it is a creative artistic website a place of expression where rewards are gained by reading valued opinions and delight incurred through acquired votes. Votes are my currency on here and I feel like a pauper. Now all of that is off my chest I have probably dug a huge hole for myself and lost those few valued voters who do appreciate my pictures...Sorry! Just felt like I needed to say this.

Saxon

There are lots of issues around the somewhat random voting system. Good pictures can be passed over and poor ones voted up. If you have a following you can get a dozen votes just by posting. It is not always easy to see what is new as it can be lost several pages back if someone is adding doodles by the dozen or putting them in the showcase even if they do not belong there. Your “Farthest Shore” while good in not eye catching as a thumbnail in the gallery. It is now 8 pages back and I, as I suspect many others do, rarely go back more than a few pages. Your “Mesmerised” is much brighter and calls you to look twice as it stands out.

In addition, there is some manoeuvring as to when to post a picture. A Monday morning in the school holidays is the kiss of death, while a Saturday morning can get a flood of votes as people log in for the weekend away from work. If you are lucky and can get a picture on the first page for a while, it always picks up passing votes. In short, half the battle is not the picture, but the way we see and vote (or don’t).

As to 17 votes, that I should be so lucky! One of my first pictures, Seven Sisters, only got 3 – it does not deserve 17, but 3! LOL.

clorophilla

i went looking for your "fartest shore" in your gallery and found that I completely missed it too! FOr some way, they passed unnoticed in my update - may be there was too many other pics in this moment, or it came out in a very busy moment... I don't know! In adding, the playback is really amazing and the pic is beautiful, but for some reason not eye-catching - may be that dark sky on the top gives it a sort of "limitating" effect: it's a pity you covered the red you put in the pic before...

Some time there are pics we done with so much effort and putting in our "soul" and yet they are unnoticed. The voting is more a matter of "popular subject" than of quality or work.
If I pic a popular subject, I'm sure to rise many votes, i.e. a Disney subject; on the contrary, for example, when I posted my portrait of Felix Gaeta (an ambiguous and troubled character of the beautiful series "Battlestar Galactica") I was quite sure it would not rise much votes, simply bc this show is less popular, and so it was, in spite of my very hard work and the great result on this pic. The same I could say for some of my pics, i.e. I'm proud of my Kandinsky's Der Blaue Reiter (the blue rider), but it gated just 4 votes! May be the wrong title? Is this epocal and crucial drawing so few known? If I draw a popular subject surely I'll catch more votes, but it's less satisfying bc I feel as they are voting the subject and not my work...

Do you remember Steve, there was a topic I built up where to post our most beloved but not appreciated pictures... may be someone could find it and put it newly up. Don't worry anyway for low voting: may be for casualties some time, as was for me about your beautiful pic!

stevedover1965

It's my fault I constantly expect more than I should, sometimes I get frustrated over silly things, feel like I should get a grip on reality worrying over a picture on Think Draw when so much more is going on that merits attention, who would think here I am 46 years old and moaning about votes on a website. I feel kind of stupid!

clorophilla

steve, don't blame yourself for your feelings. May be moaning for be voted on a website is "silly", but the subsiding need of being appreciated is not: is the same need a Na'vi meets being said "I see you"
We all sometimes moan for silly things... it's the way our inner self tries to claim our attention to our unmet needs (need anyway are quite a different matter than desires, or than strategies we build up in our minds for meeting the needs theirselves)