I know I'm not alone here with my feelings of sadness when it comes to DownVoting. Thankfully, I'm pretty confident that the vast majority of folk out there are fair when it comes to voting. I run challenges myself and so far am pleased to say I've seen no evidence of this as yet.
So here are my questions to those of you who do downvote and probably aren't even reading this!
- Do you appreciate that everyone has different artistic styles?
- can you respect that whilst an image may not be to your liking, it has taken time and effort to create?
- is winning so important to you that you will deliberately give a low vote on other folk's entries?
me personally when it comes to voting:
basic rating I always start from is a "3". This will be for images I deem as ok but not exactly my faves.
if I really like an image I'll give it a "4".
If I absolutely love an image, it gets a "5".
Do I downvote myself?
The only time I will vote lower than a 3 is if the entry is off theme.