Not nearly enough votes are going to the daily contests. As a result, the awards for daily and weekly contests are greatly skewed. As an example, I submitted an image on Saturday, November 9th. It won a #4 of the day award. https://www.pixoto.com/images-photography/buildings-and-architecture/bridges-and-suspended-structures/4761128977694720
Now, five days later, it has only had 38 duels. The image score is currently 648, that is 65 points higher than the image that is currently in second place for that day and a whopping 99 points higher than the image that won the first place award for that day. To compound the problem, my image is sitting at #7 for the week, but hasn't had nearly as many duels as the images that are in places 1-6. I get that those images were submitted earlier in the week, but wasn't the intent of adding extra days before giving awards so that images submitted later in the week would have the opportunity to have adequate duels before awards are given? Seriously, 38 votes in five days... fewer than 8 duels per day for a top image is ridiculous and makes the whole award system unfair. Please rethink this, Scott. I know there needs to be a balance between duels for community and Pixoto contests as well as those for daily contests. It is not balanced at all right now.
Now, five days later, it has only had 38 duels. The image score is currently 648, that is 65 points higher than the image that is currently in second place for that day and a whopping 99 points higher than the image that won the first place award for that day. To compound the problem, my image is sitting at #7 for the week, but hasn't had nearly as many duels as the images that are in places 1-6. I get that those images were submitted earlier in the week, but wasn't the intent of adding extra days before giving awards so that images submitted later in the week would have the opportunity to have adequate duels before awards are given? Seriously, 38 votes in five days... fewer than 8 duels per day for a top image is ridiculous and makes the whole award system unfair. Please rethink this, Scott. I know there needs to be a balance between duels for community and Pixoto contests as well as those for daily contests. It is not balanced at all right now.
SweetNana55
Right now, only one image out of 95 submitted for Animals yesterday has an image score over 600. It will likely reach 700+ eventually, but even it only acquired 37 duels so far. Flowers had 69 images submitted. The top score so far is a mere 548. It only has 30 duels.The people category is down to only 59 submissions. Sadly, only one of those is even over 500 with 29 duels. Landscapes had 90 image submissions, but none are over 600 right now and only ten are over 500. Even looking at the "ALL categories" list, only TWO images are over 600 out of 618 submissions with daily awards less than twelve hours away. Why so few submissions and even less voting? I think part of the problem may be marketing, but many are discouraged by the lack of credibility with the daily/weekly awards due to getting so few duels allotted to those contests.
Regardless of whether the other contests are finishing early, if you want to keep this site alive you need to keep people engaged by adding new submissions. Those daily contests are at least as important as the community contests and deserve their fair share of duels allotted to them. That doesn't seem to be the case right now.
Scott Murphy, Official Rep
We can also look to make some proportional voting adjustments in the coming week including perhaps a small vote tax. Currently contests are a wash on the entire system. e.g. the amount of votes they receive + credits won = total credits spent.
Adding a small tax (say 10%) would end up with a net contribution to the # of votes allocated for normal contests.
Regarding daily awards, what if we delay them a full 24 hours for the time being?
Scott Murphy, Official Rep
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Scott Murphy, Official Rep