i'm with vokaris on this one, i have seen some real bad pix go through over 10 times and some days all 5 pix are rejects from other days, how about the one with most votes go through, as it is now, the one with least votes is never seen again?
speed things up for those waiting to see thier own pix get voted out

Here here.

I like Spoldge's and Vokaris's idea on that so that we do have some interesting things to work with. Who institutes these great ideas? Make that one work!

Calling grefix. Calling grefix. Are you there grefix?

I'll look at the code and see if I can determine what can be done to the algorithm. Unless someone else beats me to it.

All you guys are great -I appreciate all the mods here.. Thanks so much.

Gee I hope 'reading chalo' comes up again! I think I've seen it up about 20-30 times already.

Thats BTVS image... you know

I never knew I could have so much fun on the internet... being advantage makes it more fun I think..and getting to see what sources are being submitted ... I actually submitted a source image, it may not get picked but it was fun nonetheless.

Yeah what Vokaris said, but once, twice, three times its outta here!!!!

i need to say this s o i can post sorry haha

Ok I have given this much thought.
Instead of re-depositing the unselected images from the source vote back into the general population why not place all unselected images into source bin2.

Continue to go thru source bin 1 until empty, then start on source bin 2 and place all unselected images back into source bin 1.

Ok I think that makes sense...but then Im an aussie and we graps things different to others.

With recent source entries they can be added to what ever pile is being drawn from for the up-coming contests. I know this has some inherent flaws of which people will soon point out to me, but at least it stops the repeat performers from coming up all the time.

The reason for my idea, well on many occasions I have seen three real solid source entries and only one wins, if we start dumping source images we may loose that one good because at the time it was against that one great one.

ok getting of the acme soap box now

Blue, isn't the voting que pretty full? If so, wouldn't this make it take a while to get to the second bin?

What if only images that were, for example, ≤10% away from the winning source image, were put back in?

So if the winning image had 36% of the vote, and the others had 30%, 16%, 11%, and 9%, only the one w/ 30% of the vote would be recycled.

Does this make sense?

I dont think so tut...but if there are to many images stop accepting submissions say only open source submissions say once a quarter...as I said its not fool proof but easy to achieve with little change to the current program.

Less work for the tech boys as well

Yes the image pool is full but if we keep taking 5 images out every day then it must be getting low, not sure how many images are added to the pool every day from new submissions. Just think out loud I guess...

In answer to approximately how many pics there currently are:

My "thinking out loud" suggestion for eliminating unpopular sources:

Every day, the two least-voted source pics get put into another queue. At the start of the next week, the 14 least-voted pics from the previous week are put up to vote. We vote for the ONE pic of those 14 to eliminate from the regular voting queue. The rest get dumped back into the regular image pool to try again. This elimination vote can be left up all week since the next one will take the week to set up.

My thought on having 14 choices at a time is for comparison and balance. It does happen that sometime all five daily sources are pretty good. And we don't want to trim too close to the bone.

There are a few of my own submissions that I thought were "good ideas at the time" but pale in comparison to most other source pics, and I really wouldn't mind seeing them removed from the queue.

I would also like to see portrait-oriented pics regularly included. BTVS has let a few slip through, but there are probably a lot of great photos that have been rejected right off the bat because they were portrait-oriented instead of landscape-oriented. I like to see a different perspective now and then. But especially if we get an elimination process in place, maybe we could test a few and "see how they do"?