# SDMB Monthly Photo Competition - rolling discussion thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** photo\ **Created:** [November 27, 2022, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642 "2022-11-27T20:27:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 108
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2026, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/2144 "2026-04-26T16:50:41Z")
It’s like you don’t care about us at all! 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2026, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/2145 "2026-04-26T16:51:46Z")
Don’t you know that there is no higher honour than to give one’s life to win the SDMB Monthly Photo Competition!? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2026, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/2146 "2026-04-26T18:41:00Z")
But, see, if he’d died, he wouldn’t have been able to post the pictures. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2026, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/2147 "2026-04-26T19:13:24Z")
Another demonstration of lack of commitment. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2026, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/2148 "2026-04-26T23:52:49Z")
What the… I got a vote? With all that amazing competition, and my tenuous hold on the theme, I nevertheless got a vote? Thank you, whoever you are! Meanwhile, I see my three votes are for the top four at the moment, and rightfully so. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2026, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/2149 "2026-04-27T22:52:30Z")
Can someone explain how the percentage is calculated? I can’t figure it out, given the number of votes, and allowing for rounding, I can’t make the math work. Maybe I’m missing something obvious. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2026, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/2150 "2026-04-27T22:58:00Z")
Using your entry as an example, 22 people voted, and you received 9 votes. Therefore, your percentage is 44%. (9 / 22 = 0.40909090909…) mmm ETA: Now wait a minute here… 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Blaylock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_blaylock/32/3235_2.png) [@Bob\_Blaylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Blaylock)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2026, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/2151 "2026-04-27T23:04:29Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > Can someone explain how the percentage is calculated?   Yes.   @Mean_Mr.Mustard can explain it.  So could I, but since he’s already done so, there’s no point in my doing so as well. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/2152 "2026-04-28T00:34:48Z")
OK. I didn’t see that you could display the vote tally. So, what it’s doing is an integer divide - the percent is not rounded, but truncated to the nearest integer, so 40.9% becomes 40%, etc. Before I found out that you can display the vote tally, I was trying to figure that out in reverse, using the % and the number of votes (or number of people). I could never get it to come out correctly, because of the truncation. But… the percentages displayed probably don’t make much sense. It should be the number of votes received divided by the number of votes cast, rather than the number of people who cast them, right? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/2153 "2026-04-28T00:52:23Z")
It should be divided by number of voters. If there are three voters, and the first one like Alice, Bob, and Carol; the second liked Alice, Dave, and Eve, and the third liked Alice, Frank, and Gertrude, then Alice has 100% support, not 33%. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/2154 "2026-04-28T01:01:08Z")
I’m the opposite. In my perfect world, the percentages would be for # votes/total votes cast. Not that it matters 🙂 Which reminds me, I really need to vote! ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2026, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/2155 "2026-04-28T04:05:48Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > I had planned to take some photos of the Abenaki petroglyphs near Bellows Falls, Vermont. I find petroglyphs really fascinating. We had a collection of them spread across several sites in the Los Alamos NM area when I was in junior high and high school. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2026, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/2156 "2026-04-30T17:30:01Z")
Finally remember to get my votes in and of course the three I wanted to vote for most were the three people ahead of me in the count 🤣 C’est la vie! This category was a good choice - it produced a wide variety of photo types. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2026, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/2157 "2026-04-30T21:12:00Z")
Oh, and obvious tip that somehow never occurred to me until this month: When picking pics, open your shortlist in new tabs. It’s a lot easier to swap between tabs than to keep on scrolling back and forth to decide which you like better. Once you get it down to three, then go back to the thread to be sure of which one is who. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2026, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/2158 "2026-04-30T21:16:23Z")
I hear you. I voted for the two people in front me. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2026, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/2159 "2026-05-01T11:09:01Z")
Congratulations to @beowulff for their solid victory! beowullf’s most recent win was January, 2025. We all anxiously await our May theme. mmm ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2026, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/2160 "2026-05-01T11:19:37Z")
Everyone got at least one vote, so that’s nice. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2026, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/2161 "2026-05-01T13:14:17Z")
In addition to the three I voted for, I also appreciated @Dung_Beetle’s Arthur’s Seat photo, @solost’s Mayan ruins, @bump’s Grand Canyon sunset (though I couldn’t click through in imgur to see the full thing), and @Bullitt’s bell tower. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2026, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/2162 "2026-05-01T13:24:23Z")
> [@ShadowFacts](#): > > In addition to the three I voted for, I also appreciated […] @solost’s Mayan ruins Thanks! There were so many strong entries in April’s competition, I was happily surprised to even do as well in the voting as I did. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2026, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642/2163 "2026-05-01T14:07:35Z")
Thank you! 😊 I thought @Chefguy’s was very artistic. Like I could imagine it as an oil painting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642.md?page=107) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-monthly-photo-competition-rolling-discussion-thread/975642.md?page=109)