For the last fifteen days, I've kept track of my voting in the Gallery. The rules were simple; log on once a day and vote until the queue is empty.
On average, I cast 71 votes per day. Then to the fun bit... :-) Assumptions: - A photo needs at least 40 votes before being presented to the Pentax jury. - The Pentax jury make decisions roughly once every fortnight (two weeks). Question for speculation: How many photos are going through the voting procedure in two weeks? Speculation: If exactly 40 photographers are doing the voting, it means that each of them get to see all the submitted photos. Then, the throughput must be 71 x 14 = 994 photos per fortnight. If 80 photographers are doing the voting, it means that they only get to see 50% of the photos. Then, the throughput must be 71 x 14 x 2 = 1988 photos per fortnight. Conclusion: The minimum estimate of throughput must be about a thousand photos per fortnight. No wonder Pentax couldn't cope with the volume of submissions... Best, Jostein -- 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.
