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at least once or twice a week, youll find some meh-quality images on the gallery homepage because some dude put a 1010 on them just for laughts. I find this very annoying, and i will downvote these on sight (giving them an honest rating, not a 1/1)
I'd suggest to ignore the rating on any images for these purposes until they have reached 5 votes, thereby stopping people from spamming the gallery home page with their semi-accepable shots.

What about just disabling voting on your own images to avoid the issue entirely? As in no one can vote on any image they upload.

The voting system is a bit more intricate than most people think.

It weighs the outliers more different than the general average rating. So a 10/10 on a model with 4 votes of 3/10 may be thrown out or bumped down.

Still a model with only one or two votes would have an odd average to go by.

How pathetic, on the part of both parties.

It is a bit annoying, but the crud quickly sinks while the good stuff stays at the top.