How does curation work?

Each photo is first sent to the members for voting. When the photo HAS RECEIVED 60 VOTES it will be sent to the official curators. The members can also write tips and feedback on your photo when they vote. You can see the popularity score from the voting in your Photo Directory. After voting is completed your photo will be sent to the official curators and is evaluated in terms of idea, mood, aesthetics and technical quality. Originality and variation in the gallery are very important. The official curators will always take the score from the members’ vote into consideration, but sometimes they will override it. For example a photo can receive a high score in voting, but still be rejected by the curators because the same motif has been published many times before. A photo with a low score can be published because it’s a very special photo with a certain quality, even though it might be difficult to understand upon the first glance. As of now, the official curators have evaluated and judged over one million photos. There is no computer algorithm which decides whether photos are published in the gallery or not, but each and every decision is taken by a real person.

 

I dont know if there are any changes in curation but i have noticed some photos are rejected just after 40-50 views (votes) same as they can be accepted with the same or sometimes with even less then 40 votes? I can understand there is a lot of images stuck in curation but for free users with only one upload per week it could be painful to see their photo is rejected with only few views.

I would like to hear your opinions about curation system, can we make it better for everyone?

It doesn’t work....... full stop

 

No matter what anyone says, it’s disagreed with, thrown out and excuses come flying at a steady pace.

 

It’s not even worth my time typing why, as it will just be hated upon. If you start watching the newly published photos everyday, you will see a pattern.

 

Not a paying member....... forget it.

I am not sure but do see the 1x curators the author of a photo during final curation? If so and I think it is:

 

It would be a big big improvement if after public curation the 1x curators would judge on just the photo and don't see the author name. So they just see the photo and not the name of the author, like the way we see the photos during public curation.

 

There are so many good non profs or unknown 1x authors who don't make it to the gallery who are delivering the same quality and diversity.

 

I can only attest to that something is weird with the curation. I aspire to improve so maybe the least that could be done if we are to curate each other is some sort of system where the photographer can get feedback on what to improve, think about etc. Otherwise there is little point and I would have spent my money better on marketing myself on Facebook for example. I'm here to learn and be inspired by my peers, but there is little interaction.

 

Cheers