Flyboyseven From Canada, joined Feb 2007, 903 posts, RR: 1 Posted (5 years 9 months 6 hours ago) and read 2296 times:
I am not talking about the length of the que our anything like that. I am talking about how long the screener is looking at the picture for. I have always wondered this. When my first photo was accepted it said in screening for 1:20 minutes. I had thought that it would only take 15-20 minutes, but obviously I was wrong.
Are there any screeners out there that would be willing to share?
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Graham
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DeltaAVL From United States of America, joined Mar 2007, 1893 posts, RR: 7 Reply 1, posted (5 years 9 months 6 hours ago) and read 2290 times:
Quoting Flyboyseven (Thread starter): When my first photo was accepted it said in screening for 1:20 minutes. I had thought that it would only take 15-20 minutes, but obviously I was wrong.
I'm admittedly not a screener, but it (obviously) doesn't actually take screeners an hour and twenty minutes to screen a single photograph. Photographs are taken in groups of a few hundred at a time, and while the upload stats page may say "Photo in screening", it doesn't necessarily mean that a screener is looking at that photo at that particular time. A few months ago, it was not uncommon to see a photo "currently in screening" for over a day.
My best guess (and a screener will know for sure) is that it takes about 30 seconds to screen a single photo.
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Silver1SWA From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 4553 posts, RR: 26 Reply 2, posted (5 years 9 months 5 hours ago) and read 2256 times:
Quoting DeltaAVL (Reply 1): not uncommon to see a photo "currently in screening" for over a day
Remember, often times photos pass through multiple stages of screening. I'm guessing every time a photo is passed on, it sits in another queue before being picked up by the next screener.
[Edited 2007-09-24 01:23:04]
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TransIsland From Bahamas, joined Mar 2004, 2032 posts, RR: 11 Reply 4, posted (5 years 9 months 3 hours ago) and read 2228 times:
I would hope that screening times vary depending on the photo... from under a second in obviously rejectable cases to quite a few minutes when it's a tight call.
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Granite From UK - Scotland, joined May 1999, 5542 posts, RR: 66 Reply 7, posted (5 years 8 months 4 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 2147 times:
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Quoting DeltaAVL (Reply 1): Photographs are taken in groups of a few hundred at a time
This is an incorrect statement. For me photographs are taken in batches of 10 or 20. I don't think any screener take batches of a few hundred. If they do they are screening thumbnails
DeltaAVL From United States of America, joined Mar 2007, 1893 posts, RR: 7 Reply 8, posted (5 years 8 months 4 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 2132 times:
Quoting Granite (Reply 7): This is an incorrect statement. For me photographs are taken in batches of 10 or 20. I don't think any screener take batches of a few hundred. If they do they are screening thumbnails
You misunderstood, I was referring to the photo upload page when it says something like "482 photos not screened yet 162 photos currently in screening."
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Dendrobatid From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2004, 1606 posts, RR: 64 Reply 9, posted (5 years 8 months 4 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 2099 times:
I had never really given a thought to this before but what Hongyin said was correct.
I did 20 earlier today, the most I ever select in a batch and these were for a first screening
I rejected 8, four with personals (two very poor, rejectable from a thumbnail though still checked properly),
I corrected the information on two, minor changes,
I passed on a comment to the next screener on three
I instant added two.
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Yes, it really depends on photos, from seconds to a few minutes.
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