Additional Rating Information...

Disabling Ratings
If you would prefer to not be judged by fellow artists, you can click on the CHANGE USER PREFERENCES button in your members control panel and check the box to 'disable image ratings'. This option is found in the lower part of the image in the comments section. Just a note, if you disable ratings you will also be dropped from any 'top artist/image' charts that you may have been on.

Logging In
If you are logged into www.ArtWanted.com and then want to just look at fine art so you select Fine Art from the top-right drop down menu, it will take you to fineart.ArtWanted.com - However, this is a totally different website, so your login information is not carried across. You will need to login to each sub-domain that you wish to view artwork in.

Random Images
You can rate images from the most recent to the oldest, or by random selection. However, for your images to appear in this random selection, you must have logged into our website at least once that month. If you don't login to ArtWanted.com for a month, your images will not be considered for the random artwork pick. This method rewards the 'active' members of our website by having only their artwork in the random selection.

One Image, Per Artist, Per Day
We had several people complain that if someone uploaded 20 images in one day, they didn't like rating 20 images all from the same artist. So, when the website 'chooses' the next image for you to vote on, it will not pick an image from an artist you have already rated that day. This method cuts down on repetitive voting habits and lets more artists/artwork be rated in a given day.

Your Own Artwork
As you probably guessed, you can't vote for your own artwork - these votes don't count.

Skipping Artwork
If you don't like a particular subject matter or style, then don't rate it badly, simply click the SKIP button. If you skip it, then it will not be shown again to you and it keeps the averages fair to the artist. If you only want to rate a specific style, then login to that gallery in the top-right corner of our website to only see that style of art.

Old Ratings
We have kept all of the ratings from the old system as long as they were a '5' or higher. All votes that were 1-4, have been deleted in case some of them were made by the famous 'low-ballers'. Within a week, you will have the ability to delete all your votes for one or more images if you so desire.

More information coming next week about additional features/upgrades to the rating system. Happy clicking!

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