NEW>>> "Was this helpful" comment voting and "helpful" user icon...

Josh Root , Sep 06, 2010; 06:28 p.m.

>>>UPDATE<<<<

Please see final post on this thread. I am making a large change and have closed this thread until the change is completed and I can update everything. Thanks for your patience.

Photographers post their work on photo.net for many reasons. Self promotion for professionals, simple sharing with other members of the community, or even just to prove to everyone that, yes, they really can use a camera. But many people on photo.net upload images and use the critique system to try and get feedback and improve their work. While some are satisfied with simple "Great shot!" type comments, many users fine longer more in depth comments to be much more useful. But as anyone who has left critique on photo.net knows, writing those in depth comments takes time, thought, and energy. Given that people are doing this writing out of the goodness of their heart and their willingness to help other photographers, we want to be able to reward those users who do make that extra effort.

Thus, photo.net has a system for voting on critique comments. For anyone who has used Amazon's system of voting on product reviews, this is quite similar. Every comment left on an image has a "Was this comment helpful to you? Yes / No" voting option. Using it is fairly simple, just click the "yes" or the "no" button.

So what will photo.net do with this information? Photo.net will use this information to identify the people who regularly and consistently make the effort to give helpful critique to other photographers. These users are the heart and soul of a community such as ours. As a small "thank you", we will identify them with a special user icon and will give their images extra visibility in various areas of the site.

Lots of info in the FAQ here:

http://photo.net/help/gallery/critique/helpful-comment-voting

Any further questions, please post them in this thread or use the "contact photo.net" link at the bottom of any photo.net page.

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Jeremy Richter , Sep 06, 2010; 06:47 p.m.

Photo.net will use this information to identify the people who regularly and consistently make the effort to give helpful critique to other photographers. These users are the heart and soul of a community such as ours. As a small "thank you", we will identify them with a special user icon and will give their images extra visibility in various areas of the site.

Wonderful idea and implementation. JR

Mark M , Sep 06, 2010; 07:15 p.m.

Nice idea, thanks. I would love to see this make its way over to the discussion forums as well.

John H. , Sep 06, 2010; 07:32 p.m.

I agree with Mark.

Josh Root , Sep 06, 2010; 07:48 p.m.

One thing at a time. The ratings/critique system needs much more help than the forums. But I will keep the idea on mind for the future.

James Dainis , Sep 06, 2010; 07:53 p.m.

If a comment of mine was marked as "helpful" (Yes) how would I know?

Josh Root , Sep 06, 2010; 07:58 p.m.

Good question James, reminding me I left something out.

I do not think that we will be notifying users every time that someone clicks "yes". As that would end up swamping even moderately active and talented critiquers. I do want to create some sort of "your comment was voted most helpful" or "ten people found your comment helpful" notification. But I want to wait and make sure that the system is operating properly first and not getting screwed up by cheaters or glitches.

James G. , Sep 06, 2010; 08:12 p.m.

Josh, One simple way to handle that may be with a count tracker linked to the buttons as you see in some other forum sights and on Amazon as you mentioned. (but you probably already thought of that)

These are all great tools and ideas, thanks for the work. J

Mike Stemberg , Sep 06, 2010; 08:21 p.m.

I found this (in my workspace) at the top of my Photo Critiques section ~

commented-on photos
total comments value + 1

Could we have some more detail/clarification on what this means?

Scott Cromwell , Sep 06, 2010; 08:21 p.m.

Your screenshot looks proper, but when looking at any image, the "was this comment helpful" is not below the correct dotted line and it is a little confusing if we are saying yes or no to the right comment. Probably just a temporary glitch.

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