I pretty much hand out 4's and 5's.
If it's crappy art, I try and see if the punchline is good and rate on punchline. Typically I don't rate comics where I see no effort was put into it, or if they have a whole bunch of 5's already. I also don't rate mediocre comics. (There are exceptions, like when I forget to press the vote button)
If it's good art, it's different. I still vote on punchline/story.

Pretty much I'd only give 1's if it's like chicken scratch and the guys an asshole. or if it's a sprite comic made on paint with that shitty sky blue teal color as a background (Beware).

I think voting is all subjective. I rarely get offended by anyone's votes because I know different people like different things. I mean the first comic that someone voted on here of mine, I got a 2, because it was too anime/PA-esque (this was on a Pokemon parody). That's someone voting on style. Not content.
I think we should have "Type of Rater" next to the voting box. :)

5- Good and doesn't suck
4- Good and has potential of getting better.
3- Fine, it won't kill me
2- You still have a chance to move up.
1- Stop. You still have a chance to move up.

Well you two are obviously experts, and clearly in no danger of SOS, (Sudden loss Of Soul).

If we really, really want to keep this 5 level rating system that assumes everyone wants to offer (and is able to offer) an expert opinion, then I'd reform it to be what it is on Smack Jeeves: Hidden.

Comments and ratings are separate there, none of this anonymous poo. You just can't tell who rated what. All you can see is the average rating for each strip!

It doesn't cure sniping and it doesn't cure excessive high raters, but you no longer have that concern about “people only giving 5’s to each other because they fear retaliation against their own comic blah, blah, blah…”

And that’d be easy to implement at DD. Piss-easy. Just don’t have the scores displayed, don’t print them out in the comment displays. Have the average displayed next to the commenting form box as part of the code there.
Easy-peasy.

That’s a good simple solution to this “retaliation” idea and it’s very easy to put into action, involving hardly any clever coding at all and no complex systems. You stick with the same system, you just help to change people’s behaviour.

I actually haven't been looking at too many comics lately, I've just stuck around the forums. Haha! That totally defeats the purpose of DD, but oh well! :lol:

I agree Ozoneocean. Having a system like Smackjeeves would be a great idea (I'll take your word on the easy part, I'm not programmer). It would end these horrid little alliances people unknowingly condem themselves to when they give out 5's or 1's.

ozoneocean
May as well become a hermit, live of stale bread and water, sleep on a cold concrete slab… You see I know IanJay’s game. Oh yess. OOOOOOOOH yess indeeeedy. First it’s no voting, then no sugar, then no TV, and you know where that sort of thing leads don’t you?????
Straight to hell that’s where!

Bah, I'm Amish anyway so it doesn't matter.

I'll probably break my "vow" sooner or later anyway. :lol:

ozoneocean
Whoa there ccs1989! Think before ye sign yon devil's pact!!!
Besides the fact that IanJay has a full contract for eternal ownership of your VERY SOUL hidden away inside a microdot in the point of the "V" (Yessssss I saw it there you Vile demon you), it'll mean you can never again taste the sweet, sweet pleasures of the gold star "5" vote!

What? Oh, yeah. That. No, that's a contract for the ownership of the signer's eternal soul music collection. You know, James Brown, Barry White, Issac Hayes (and, more recently, Common). And I'm probably just going to burn some copies and then give your collection back.

Geez, Oz. I mean, we know you like it when people give you fives, but right now you're just sounding... pathetic. Tsk.

~IJ

Ian Jay
No, that's a contract for the ownership of the signer's eternal soul music collection.

Oh yeah? Then how do you explain Sfpwrtutrsbwwdwtgtatwcftlvoddatuiboetw?????
The conspicuous minority of vowels in that name is obvious proof of the hand of Satan. A devil’s name if ever I saw one (and I’ve see a few).
And now I've seen enough, I’m calling a priest! Or at least RIAA...
Your soul stealing days of music piracy are over demon. >_<

I need those 5's for my dependency problem, ok? I just... I just can't go on without them...:cry:

Mazoo
Bah, I'm Amish anyway so it doesn't matter.

I'll probably break my "vow" sooner or later anyway. :lol:

:o
Um...it looks like you already did!

InvisibleGirl

Mazoo
Bah, I'm Amish anyway so it doesn't matter.

I'll probably break my "vow" sooner or later anyway. :lol:

:o
Um...it looks like you already did!

Haha, I was talking about the vow of Sfpwrtutrsbwwdwtgtatwcftlvoddatuiboetw, but I suppose you are right as well.

then again if I were really Amish I wouldn't even be on the computer as I wouldn't be able to have one! :wink:

Durn it, InvisibleGirl, you've blown my cover! :P

ozoneocean
Oh yeah? Then how do you explain Sfpwrtutrsbwwdwtgtatwcftlvoddatuiboetw?????
The conspicuous minority of vowels in that name is obvious proof of the hand of Satan. A devil’s name if ever I saw one (and I’ve see a few).
And now I've seen enough, I’m calling a priest! Or at least RIAA...
Your soul stealing days of music piracy are over demon. >_<

I need those 5's for my dependency problem, ok? I just... I just can't go on without them...:cry:

LOL! It's just so hard for me to believe you do one of the Duck's best serious comics, ozoneocean. You've become so hilarious!

If by "hilarious" you mean "crazy paranoid and likely to attack at even the slightest provoking".

Look, Oz, it's an acronym. Not many words start with vowels (I mean, compared to the rest of the alphabet, there's only A, E, I, O, and U... and sometimes Y...), but if I ever start another society which has a mission statement consisting of "make a lot of people really P.O.'d", I'll be sure to get more creative.

~IJ

Hawk
LOL! It's just so hard for me to believe you do one of the Duck's best serious comics, ozoneocean. You've become so hilarious!

Thank you, thank you :D Quite a double compliment!
It must be the seriousness of the comic… I have to bottle up all the humour and let it out somewhere else. But then it all goes flat, and it’s back to serious work again :?

Actually IJ, if it really isn’t your demon name (and don’t think you’re lulling me into a false sense of security here), then it can not be an acronym: it has to be an initialism.
Acronyms spell out words. You make something like: “the Comity for the Liberation and Integration of Terrifying Organisms and their Rehabilitation Into Society.”
Into: C.L.I.T.O.R.I.S. (Red Dwarf, 1991)
Whereas initialisms are only letters :(. For instance, you might think up something like this:
O.I.B.A.P.B.A.F.W.N.B.N.A.F.A.H.T.H.I.A.H.S.J.S.U.N.
Which stands for: “Ozoneocean Is Being A Pedantic Boring Anus Face While Not Being Nearly As Funny As He Thinks He Is And He Should Just Shut Up Now”