Econtri

Econtri was "Instant single picture submissions - fast screening and approval 24 hours every day". These differ from a full contri which consist of 3-10 images. The single image must match the theme of the contests. The specific rules and contest information were given for entry. The contests generally ran for six weeks, but more recently six months. The end of the contest is often announced on the bulletin board.

Scoring and Rankings

Please read Igor's message on Votes.

Timed Out

A posted econtri may be removed after a period of time should it fail to receive as many votes as those other econtri published at the same time. At first, it is placed in the "Photo which need your Vote" page. If it still fails to keep up with the voting of its publishing class, it will be removed. The number of votes required are based on the number of votes received by others published at the same time. Each day and throughout the day, that number will change.

If ten econtri are published together and nine receive a hundred votes for each one vote given to the tenth, that tenth econtri is endangered of being "timed out" and removed.

Vote Peaked

If one econtri receives a disproportionate number of votes compared to the rest of the econtri, it will go into the vote peaked phase. This suspends the voting on that econtri until the other econtri have a chance to catch up. The idea is to keep the voting consistent across the econtri. Different servers will have different voting records. An econtri overvoted in Europe will be "vote peaked" while the Americas or Pacific nations may still vote. Another econtri may receive too many votes from the West Coast of the USA compared to other econtri, and so vote peaked many temporarily be place on that econtri for the West Coast.

Settled/Changing

Settled econtri have reached their point where additional votes will not affect their average to any significant degree. This is similar to the Vote Peaked situation. An contri with an average of 4.500 after 200,000 votes would have an average of 4.5000025 if someone votes superb. Statically speaking, the next 100,000 votes should also reflect the first two 100,000 groups, and return the average to 4.500 - the average has settled into position.

Changing is simply stating the obvious - the average vote is still changing to a significant degree.

Rankings

An econtri is ranked based on its score. New econtri are added each day. Some of those econtri will receive high average scores, and thus, they will place high in the rankings. The result is some older econtri drop in rank without dropping in their score. Of course, future voting may swap the standings over time.

Since many econtri have average scores that are tiny fractions of a point different, their rankings can change frequently with the others. Over time, even a small difference becomes difficult to change with a few votes due to the huge total number of votes. The ranking is based on the average score and that tends to settle over time. Filters will make adjustments from time-to-time. The effect of a filter may be great or small depending on the voting trends on each econtri.