Okay, I'll share what I've found out. Data as of a couple of days ago.
Number of published photographers: 500 (exactly!) Total no. of pictures: 3377 Average no. of pics per photographer: 6.75 To the statistically minded, it might also be interesting to know that the median is 3. There are 89 photographers with more than 10 images. Those 89 people contribute 62 % of the total number of pictures. 139 photographers have 1 pic each. 23 have more than 30. The latter group contains prominent PDML'ers like Mark Roberts, Mark Cassino, Ken Waller and Paul Stenquist. Okay, that's it for the number crunching. Then to the claim of 40 votes per image. Below is a quoted mail from Cathy Tarter at Pentax. It says "currently 40 or more". Jack Davis and I have discussed this off-list before, and I got the impression that his info referred to the number of "nay"s needed to produce a reject. His number was 20 votes. Sometimes there are very fast rejects, usually after around 4-5 days. I therefore believe that there is a threshold number of nays that trigger an automatic reject, and that this number is precisely 20 based on Jack's info. Another observation is that if my photos stays in the "awaiting review" pool for more than a week, they seem to have significantly more than 50% likelihood of acceptance. So who exactly do the voting? Just can't help my curiosity. :-) Jostein ----- Original Message ----- From: photogallery___PAIC_MKT To: =[My email removed] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 10:51 PM Subject: RE: PENTAX Photogallery Contact Us Form Hello Jostein, We are using the voting process to help limit the number of images we have to review. As for a timeframe, it's difficult to say. Pentax looks to the artists to vote on images - we take this tallied vote (currently 40 or more votes per image) into consideration when we accept or decline an image: [screendump of voting criteria skipped] Cathy Tarter Pentax Imaging Company 600 12th Street, Suite 300 Golden, CO 80401 -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
