I think the new change to the system is fantastic and will reflect the standard of artwork much better. 
voting bug?
paperclip
#101
Lauran
#103
Hello, Iām one of them who prefer the old systemā¦
maybe one day I will see the advantages of the new one, but at the moment my opinion is that it needs some improvement
the new system seems quite similar to the facebook āI like itā option, but in that case you can see, for example, āfour people like your linkā
the stars were an useful indication for the authors of the work, too
we are here to learn, fist of allā¦ if my work has a rating of ā3ā i can think thereās something good and something to improve
it is a little bit different from the āpost replayā option, and a useful add
ā¦ sorry for my english 
KarimNassar
#104
I read through this thread a bit and Iām for the new system. I had nothing against the old one though.
But I agree it will make the great pieces stand out more and make some submitions get more views, I was pretty much only checking the 4stars and above entries before. Now Iām looking around more
letās see how this new system does over time
MaxUzkikh
#105
Hi everyone, I posted my work 22 May and I have 71 votes. Everyone can vote 5 stars (āI love it!ā). Why my average 4,9859?(
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=132&t=766704
When another works have 21-39 votes and average 5 stars. And this works have hight rating(((
http://forums.cgsociety.org/forumdisplay.php?f=132&daysprune=-1&order=desc&sort=voteavg
I think that is not honest!!!
When I can have 3d choice Award?
khendar
#106
You do not ASK for a 3d choice award. Choice awards are decided by a vote from the forum leaders and moderators. The stars are only used to nominate pieces for an award. If your piece was not voted to receive an award, then unfortunately thats the way it is. Better luck next time
system
#107
Iāll extend on that a little and say that CGChoice voting happens on works with 4 or more star and the star rating is invisible to voters. In this case 4.38329 = 5.
KarimNassar
#108
Regarding awards, I remember the lobo piece that didnāt get an award although forum members screamed for one. I think members should have some influence on awards handing aside from the 4 stars rating. Maybe with an āaward thisā button or something
vampeta
#109
Ok first of all! i like the new system!
It makes impossible for jealous people to push artworks down and only because they donāt get enough attention to their works.
Most of the people who are posting here watching art very subjectiveā¦ they open a threadā¦ looking at the voting (5 stars for example) and then looking at the artworkā¦ and then they sayā¦ what 5 stars for that workā¦ it deserves only 3! and guess whatā¦ they vote with 1 star to bring the whole vote down
And even worstā¦ they are to coward to leave a comment on your work.
Almost 7 years since i am a member in this forum there was only one single artwork in the 3D section (not choice award) that had a 5 star votingā¦ and this could not be pushed down because the thread was closed
It is a great satisfaction to see so many 5 stars artworks in the galleries right now!
may those one star voters agiate about this until their heads blow up! 
I thinks this was a very wise decision and i vote for it! (*****) 
:arteest:
-Alex
RedXR
#110
Couldnāt agree more. Now the main focus has become the CG choice award, as it should be. Whoever came up with the new system, Kudos to you mate!
elmata
#111
Sorry to say that but i totally disagree with thisā¦ With this new system, there is so many piece with 5 stars (which mean for me āthe top of excellenceā) which does not deserve such high scoreā¦ Cause theyāarenāt perfect!!! And the only thing i could do in that case is to post a reply sayin " sorry but i donāt like this pic for this reasons &for this reasonsā¦" But the 5* stay anyway.
Moreover there is so many pics with a very interesting purpose and interest but unfortunately without focus on itā¦
Some exemple with 5* whereas is not (with all my respect!) a masterpiece:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=132&t=765825
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=132&t=767573
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=132&t=763116
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=132&t=764922
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=132&t=765309
Some exemple (in my opinion) deserving interest or at least 3 or 4 stars but not 5ā¦
Peace
vampeta
#112
Butā¦ If you reply! you are able to vote with less then 5 stars! Check out the Rate thread drop down in the Additional Optionsā¦
So whatās the big deal? The only thing you have to do is leave a comment why you donāt like the workā¦ and this is something i have designated for a long time!
-Alex
elmata
#113
Oh so sorryā¦ I ve never seen this option beforeā¦
Ok i think by this point the new system is more justfiable and fairā¦ But i continue to prefer the old oneā¦
ajinak
#114
Hi there,
I havenāt posted anything for quite long time and so I was very surprised by that change of voting. Well, finally I found in this thread what happenedā¦ I just wanted to say something, even though it might sound a bit sillyā¦ I know everyone here wants to see something awesome, a āfive star workā - but I though this site was also for users that arenāt so good, those who want to learn and get better - and it was always so challenging to put artwork in the gallery and wait for others oppinion. Most of the time there is no single comment by works that arenāt breathtaking and so āstars systemā was usefull at least in one thing - people who didnāt comment, usually voted and so we knew some ārankingā. It made us work hard and wish for more stars with new work (surely stars arenāt everything, but still they had sense). Now when people can only ālove itā, we know nothing. Because as I said, most of works of us āstill more or less averageā donāt get commets. Itās just a point of view, but itās a bit frustrating sometimes. Hope you wonāt mind what I wrote, it was just a quick thought (sorry for my english)
vampeta
#115
Well just read my previous postā¦ YOU CAN VOTE WITH A RATING FROM 1-5 if you leafe a message! and sorry if i say this againā¦ this is the best thing ever!
You donāt have do be afraid anymore to submit an artwork to the forum and to get pushed down by jealous people! And this happend to a lot of Peopleā¦ and not only guys like you and me, but for example : pascal blanchĆ©, Krishnamurti Costaā¦ Philip Straubā¦ to name just a few.
I remember watching the gals and saw a lot of 4-5 star artworks maybe 5 in a row ā¦ and reallly! these where good works worthy of the voting!
After a few hours i was watching a guy who went to all the threadsā¦ and after watchingā¦ the Voting was pushed down for all of them.
Now you have to get more than 20 votes until your vote getās visibleā¦ and this makes it almost impossible to push votes downā¦ except for the users who have more then 10 identities 
And after watching the first results:
[ul]
[li]far more images posted in the forum for consideration (not only in the portfolio)[/li][li]more feedback on the images (i guess because we are looking more at the thumbnails right now and not at the voting as previosly[/li][li]more frondpage plugs[/li][li]And more quality image in the Choice gal[/li][/ul]Call me an Idiot but i was praying for a change like that a long time!
-Alex
ajinak
#116
vampeta: Iām sorry if it wasnāt understandableā¦ now Iām a bit confused - there is some chance to see votes that pictures got? Because I see everything without any ranking and it would be strange if those pictures didnāt have at least those 20 votesā¦ maybe mistake is on my sideā¦ or you meant only votes on cg awards (so just 5 stars) are visible? Well, that would make sense
But in general - what I was talking about were works of ānot famous artistsā (so there was no reason to put the work down by jealous people) and if people can vote while leaving a comment, so this is also what I mentioned - because sometimes people just donāt leave ANY commentā¦ to be honest it happened to me many times and if I got for example 3 stars before, at least I knew it might be better done than pic that got nothingā¦ well, everyone is learningā¦
I said it might sound silly (and maybe I just misunderstood something before), donāt worry about it
vampeta
#117
No Problem my friendā¦ I am not a moderator and i figured these things out by myself the last days soā¦ welcome to the club!
Most of the artworks did not get so much votings to become visibleā¦ you can see this in the Choice Galā¦ a lot of Artworks lost their starsā¦ that does not mean they donāt have them anymoreā¦ they are just invisible untile some more Folks vote for them.
I think it will take a few month until the comunity getās use to this new Systemā¦ and after that it will be the BEST on the whole Internet
Take care
-Alex
-Alex
Dogway
#118
I dont even understand the rating system now. I either know where it is explained. Now I only see 5 stars rating or no stars
I dont understand anything. Before I knew that 3 star works were good, and 4 star works were really good, and some of them amazing. And it worked for me, it was a nice guideline around the 90% of the time. And the complaint I see mostly among the moderators are ānice works rated badā, maybe meaning that not even one work was rated with 5 stars.
Well, the solution is easy, make works 5 stars when rated above 4. Add a 0 stars rating, and when average is above 0, that stands as for 1 star. Between 1 and 2, is 2 stars, and so on. No rating, or average is a round 0, then no stars.
So now the problem might be, many trolls voting 0 stars? Ok, we can apply the average system compared to number of posts, or/and start showing stars when a fairly amount of votes are calculated, lets say 10. And we can make an axception with the 0 star voting making it even wider, so 1 star requires an average between 0.5 and 1, and not 0 and 1 like before.
I think all these sum a nice filtering, taking into account all the votes and ratings in a fair way. If maybe the weighting of number of posts versus rating influence is too exagerated, you can cut that influence into half, so people doesnt feel so excluded, but makes you still feel to be more participative, which is a nice thing for the forum. well this is my opinion
BenCole
#119
I thought for sure by now it would have been changed back, it seemed like MOST everyone agreed it completely sucked but understood we should give it time to catch on/improve. Well, from what I have seen itās worse now than it was right when they switched it. Pretty lame. Oh well.
Kirt
#120
Fixed your post for you.
If youāre going to make statements as if they were facts, then please get them right. If what you said were true there certainly would be more than the 40-ish people posting in this thread about how much they truly dislike the system. Of the 40-ish people that did post, not all of them are expressing a dislike of the system. So, less than 40 of the hundreds of thousands of people who visit the site share your opinion. The rest are OK with the change or donāt care enough to post an opinion.