Vote for Featured Thread of the Week
p.1 #1Vote for Featured Thread of the Week
Hey everyone,
Exciting news! We've added a new feature to our Landscape Photographer, Nature & Wildlife, and People Photography boards – a voting system to pick a "Featured Thread" each week.
This voting system gives each of you a chance to participate in selecting the featured threads based on your votes. Here's how:
1. Click on the "Vote as Featured Thread" button at the top of the thread.
2. You can vote for as many threads as you like.
The voting lasts for a week, giving all threads equal exposure time. After a week, the button is removed, and the thread is included in the next Friday's vote count.
In case of a tie, the thread with the most replies wins.
If a thread doesn't have the "Vote as Featured Thread" button, it means it has already been exposed and voted on for a week, awaiting the final count on the next Friday.
The winning threads get moved to the top of the board with "Featured" in the subject line and are showcased on our FM Frontpage, Gallery, Twitter, and Facebook.
Check out the example thread to see where the button is located. Happy voting!
Exciting news! We've added a new feature to our Landscape Photographer, Nature & Wildlife, and People Photography boards – a voting system to pick a "Featured Thread" each week.
This voting system gives each of you a chance to participate in selecting the featured threads based on your votes. Here's how:
1. Click on the "Vote as Featured Thread" button at the top of the thread.
2. You can vote for as many threads as you like.
The voting lasts for a week, giving all threads equal exposure time. After a week, the button is removed, and the thread is included in the next Friday's vote count.
In case of a tie, the thread with the most replies wins.
If a thread doesn't have the "Vote as Featured Thread" button, it means it has already been exposed and voted on for a week, awaiting the final count on the next Friday.
The winning threads get moved to the top of the board with "Featured" in the subject line and are showcased on our FM Frontpage, Gallery, Twitter, and Facebook.
Check out the example thread to see where the button is located. Happy voting!
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Mar 15, 2013 at 11:08 PM
p.1 #2Vote for Featured Thread of the Week
I like this idea Fred and really appreciate being able to participate in selecting the "Thread of the Week"
Thanks so much for hosting our support group.
Seriously... thanks for creating this website and these forums, which has become a really enjoyable part of my life.
Kirk
Thanks so much for hosting our support group.
Seriously... thanks for creating this website and these forums, which has become a really enjoyable part of my life.
Kirk
Mar 15, 2013 at 11:27 PM
p.1 #4Vote for Featured Thread of the Week
There's no "like" for your post.
Mar 15, 2013 at 11:52 PM
p.1 #5Vote for Featured Thread of the Week
Sounds good.
In the past somebody might get 200+ views on his photo and no comments. That guy would wonder if his pic was awful or (less likely) perfect. Now we have a system to tell him in one click.
In the past somebody might get 200+ views on his photo and no comments. That guy would wonder if his pic was awful or (less likely) perfect. Now we have a system to tell him in one click.
Mar 16, 2013 at 12:01 AM
p.1 #6Vote for Featured Thread of the Week
Let me echo Kirk, thanks so much Fred for the wonderful website. I have learned so much and made many friends from here. Great work!
Khai
Khai
Mar 16, 2013 at 12:36 AM
p.1 #9Vote for Featured Thread of the Week
Interesting development. I'm still relatively new to this forum and haven't yet figured out how everything works. Are those five thumbnails that appear at the top of the main page also feature threads?
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Mar 16, 2013 at 03:45 AM
p.1 #10Vote for Featured Thread of the Week
No need to comment anymore. Just like it.
Mar 16, 2013 at 05:18 AM
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p.1 #11Vote for Featured Thread of the Week
Really great feature, Fred. I feel that comments are down lately (most likely due to people viewing on tablets and phones). This new feature will allow for a quick "like" to let people know they are heading in the right direction.
Mar 16, 2013 at 05:35 AM
p.1 #12Vote for Featured Thread of the Week
While more democracy sounds great, I do have some doubts about this Fred. On another forum which I visit, they tried this and it led to some rather childish "vote for me and I'll vote for you" friendships. There was even one man who created a whole legion of aliases to promote himself. I sincerely hope that the people who visit FM are more mature and will vote based on the qualities of the photographs.
Mar 16, 2013 at 05:39 AM
p.1 #13Vote for Featured Thread of the Week
So we're voting on a thread; not an image? Not sure I get the point. Seems like there's a couple of measurands already that are indicators of popularity, like number of views and number of posts. In addition to those, I don't get the value of knowing that someone likes the thread, especially since you could have a thread that got a lot of hits (or posts) yet only a few "Likes."
Jack
Jack
Mar 16, 2013 at 06:21 AM
p.1 #14Vote for Featured Thread of the Week
The Featured Thread button is OK I guess.
The Quote/Like line in each post really makes the thread look noisy though. It really interrupts the flow.
I guess the whole "Like" thing is inevitable since that is the trendy and low-commitment thing to do on the web these days. I can't help but feel that this is going to highlight even more that FM just isn't very good at the "display and like" thing though. There are so many other sites that do that better. I assume that the Likes are not going to cause the thread to pop to the top of the stack so it will be interesting to see if it actually causes less apparent activity in the threads.
I would encourage you to think more about how you can play to FM's strengths and use that as a differentiator rather than copy trendy features from other sites in a way that highlights FM's weaknesses.
The Quote/Like line in each post really makes the thread look noisy though. It really interrupts the flow.
I guess the whole "Like" thing is inevitable since that is the trendy and low-commitment thing to do on the web these days. I can't help but feel that this is going to highlight even more that FM just isn't very good at the "display and like" thing though. There are so many other sites that do that better. I assume that the Likes are not going to cause the thread to pop to the top of the stack so it will be interesting to see if it actually causes less apparent activity in the threads.
I would encourage you to think more about how you can play to FM's strengths and use that as a differentiator rather than copy trendy features from other sites in a way that highlights FM's weaknesses.
Mar 16, 2013 at 06:25 AM
p.1 #15Vote for Featured Thread of the Week
helenica wrote:
While more democracy sounds great, I do have some doubts about this Fred. On another forum which I visit, they tried this and it led to some rather childish "vote for me and I'll vote for you" friendships. There was even one man who created a whole legion of aliases to promote himself. I sincerely hope that the people who visit FM are more mature and will vote based on the qualities of the photographs.
That's a good point. These sorts of things, especially when they're not anonymous, tend to turn out as popularity contests. It's human nature.
While more democracy sounds great, I do have some doubts about this Fred. On another forum which I visit, they tried this and it led to some rather childish "vote for me and I'll vote for you" friendships. There was even one man who created a whole legion of aliases to promote himself. I sincerely hope that the people who visit FM are more mature and will vote based on the qualities of the photographs.
That's a good point. These sorts of things, especially when they're not anonymous, tend to turn out as popularity contests. It's human nature.
Mar 16, 2013 at 06:27 AM
p.1 #16Vote for Featured Thread of the Week
I'm with eyeball here.
I think this would discourage people even more to comment.
This was typed on a mobile phone.
I think this would discourage people even more to comment.
This was typed on a mobile phone.
Mar 16, 2013 at 06:32 AM
p.1 #17Vote for Featured Thread of the Week
Great ideas Fred! Great to see the site continue to evolve. Thanks for the site and taking great care of it 
Tim
Tim
Mar 16, 2013 at 06:44 AM
p.1 #18Vote for Featured Thread of the Week
Why is there only a Like button in the comments to a post and not on the original post in a thread?
brad
brad
Mar 16, 2013 at 06:57 AM
p.1 #20Vote for Featured Thread of the Week
Phrasikleia wrote:
That's a good point. These sorts of things, especially when they're not anonymous, tend to turn out as popularity contests. It's human nature.
I already see people continually ( or in fact strategically timed ) post to their own threads just to bump it up to the top so more people could view and comment on their photos. I think having a voting system which would turn into a popularity vote would just increase this behavior.
helenica wrote
While more democracy sounds great, I do have some doubts about this Fred. On another forum which I visit, they tried this and it led to some rather childish "vote for me and I'll vote for you" friendships. There was even one man who created a whole legion of aliases to promote himself. I sincerely hope that the people who visit FM are more mature and will vote based on the qualities of the photographs.I already see people continually ( or in fact strategically timed ) post to their own threads just to bump it up to the top so more people could view and comment on their photos. I think having a voting system which would turn into a popularity vote would just increase this behavior.
Mar 16, 2013 at 06:59 AM