So does anyone actually VOTE?

[tzor]

I wonder about these things sometimes. It seems like the old days where a mini could over enough time get a hundred or so votes is long gone. Once my recent mini reached slightly over 50 votes (one was 53 and the other 52) it remained that way for over a month.

I even tried to promote them via shout and the result was that one mini got one vote.

Now I don\'t mind having minis with low scores ... that\'s because I\'m the painter ... but a mediocre mini deserves a mediocre vote as much as a good mini deserves a good vote. So vote darn ya vote!

 

[vincegamer]

Guilty

I rarely vote anymore.
It\'s just so sloooow.
Plus, it\'s depressing seeing how much better everyone is getting while I don\'t improve.

As to the 50 vote event horizon, I think that\'s the software. Once you get 50, your image doesn\'t come up as much. There are so many pics here, that it takes a lot of time to see them all.
Does anyone still keep up?

 

[GreenOne]

I think vince is right, they mentionned having the randmiser changed. THey come up randomly until 50 votes, then only the 8+ keep coming.
It\'s more depressing in that way, since you almost only see the great minis

 

[Ritual]

It\'s not true only 8+ minis comes up after 50 votes! Just look around and you\'ll see. It\'s just that they are weighted to come up more often.

I think the slowness is the culprit here! I used to do some random voting a couple of times a week, but I don\'t anymore because it\'s too slow and sometimes I only get error pages.

 

[NecroN]

I am pretty sure the new algorithm is killing you here.

Personally I vote, I vote like mad. One day I will get through them all.

\"You have voted on 42923\"

 

[EricJ]

I vote every time I want to refresh the page to see new PM\'s, every once in a while I do the voting to pass the time thing, but I so rarely have time to relax and do that anymore.

 

[petey]

I only vote when I post a comment, otherwise it\'s just too slow to make it worthwile, I think. :~(

 

[Drake Farstrider]

I vote all the time, but sadly not as much as I used to. I think for me its a time thing.

 

[dauber22]

slow, slow, slow!!!!!

That\'s the problem. Yeah, I used to be entirely caught up and did my best to stay that way, but its so godawful slow now, it\'s painful!!!
(see these two threads:
slow
and
slow II

Now, mostly a vote on anything in the \"Discuss Submissions\" forum, sometimes stuff that appears in the Shout Box, and T10L7 once every few days. I\'m a couple grand behind now and drifting further and further back

 

[Beelzebrush]

Too slow for me too and far, far, far too many \'broken links\'

 

[Naukhel]

I spent about three hours voting last night, while doing a few other things. I even voted on a couple of yours, tzor.
I was working my way through Reaper for a while.

 

[marineboy]

I vote occasionally, but the slowness kills it for me.

And, yes, tzor, I\'ve voted on some of yours.

 

[funnymouth]

broken links?

i never have that problem. is it because of off site hosting? in any case, i vote a lot! i love crawling through minis, though i must admit i nearly always filter or use the search function. i like to see what people have done with minis from different manufacturers and \"keep my ear to the ground.\" every once in a while i find something that blows me away, and inspires me - and its not usually an 8+.
i like cmon because it is a wonderful resource.
vote, or become stale.

 

[Ogrebane]

I try to get in about 100 or so votes a week but the slow thing is a pain as well as opening multiple windows with thte same mini.

 

[DrEvilmonki]

I to have slowed down; not that I have ever been as prolific as dauber or Necron. Thats crazy voting.

For me it\'s a time issue, I don\'t get to paint much and I would rather spend my time in the forums chatting bout shit (and sometimes pissing people of)

 

[Sand Rat]

I vote - often. And surprisingly, its not that slow for me.

 

[EArkham]

Like many others, I\'ve stopped entirely because the site is just too slow in bringing up the next image.

Maybe it\'s site traffic?

Kep

 

[Fizl]

Unless the pipe has really narrowed at the server end, I doubt its the traffic. I would love to do a trace on the database to see what it is querying everytime I go to a new page. I\'m hoping I\'m wrong that it is checking everything I have voted on before in some convoluted way, instead of a flag or something. I also wonder about the issue showing double the amount of counted votes for everyone, whether there is a duplicate index in there somwhere.

If this place sped up again, I would be happily voting away

(Tzor, I think I\'ve voted on most of your figures, it would only be any in the last month I may have missed due to the speed issues)

Shaz