Shinjidude said:
Like I alluded above, I doubt this is a true systematic problem. If someone actually *is* downvoting every explicit image, that's inappropriate, but I haven't noticed this.
Also, even for those complaining of it, there isn't really a noticeable pattern of negatively rated posts that don't likely deserve it.
Like chainedwind says, most images can be judged in a few seconds, unless they are are very borderline (and as such don't merit a vote in either direction). The moderation staff sees all member-level submissions shortly after they are uploaded and tend to be more critical of quality than the general populace. (This may be why scores quickly fall and then slowly rise)
If you see a significant set of your images down-voted shortly after upload, it's probably one of us going through the queue. If something is truly bad in someone's eyes I don't see any reason they shouldn't vote it down (just like if they really like something, they should vote it up).
It's kind of hard to measure this sort of thing, since scores are constantly changing, and the voters are anonymous, but if you see specific cases were you think something is very good, but highly voted down, I guess you could bring it up here and people could make an overt call on whether it was justified or not. Doing so might be redundant with the deletion appeal thread though.
My guess is that in almost all cases it is nothing personal against the uploader, and simply people voicing their opinion on what they perceive as bad art.
Its very obvious that its systematic with mass uploaders like me. I go days or weeks without any significant uploads but then I find an artist I like and fill up his page so its very noticeable when all his safe rated pics get no attention then suddenly all his explicit posts are downvoted. You can't tell me that an artist's work suddenly gets bad when its explicit. I should have taken screen caps before making this thread.
Granola said:
Not really. How do you monitor someone's brain?
With fairy dust and wishful thinking :P
But yeah you're right.
chainedwind said:
Dunno about you, but it doesn't take more than a few seconds to decide I really don't like a picture, if I really don't like the picture. And recently uploaded stuff is in more prominence, too, since it's on the default Posts page. Makes sense.
Sometimes I upload a pic, then I tag it, then I refresh to see if I missed any tags and BAM -1 out of nowhere. The dude is fast.
Sometimes I upload a batch, tag all the pictures, look at my profile (I have the grease monkey script that shows scores at the bottom and highlights negative pics in red so they're obvious) and BAM several pics in a row highlighted red. The BAM is for emphasize on how quickly it happens.
Then I'm torn, should I upvote it myself? I mean I uploaded so I thought it was good and I have the right to upvote and picture I find awesome or would that be unfair? Should I take the opinion of one guy who voted in down when there are 20 or so favorites attached to the pic?
Any how I take it seriously because I use it to measure whether or not an artist is worth following as well as a general guide line to quality pics I should be uploading unto the site, also I already mentioned this but I use it for searching purposes. If it is a staff member like some of the mods pointed out then its not that serious (and if the staff member is reading the thread maybe he/she can Dmail me to tell me what he/she doesn't like about my uploads so I can keep that into consideration while uploading things on the site)