Very clever idea :)

Like it!:)

that sounds easy Steve...good idea.... "if we stay with voting"

Or another idea..Admins may be interested to look here http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showt...ighlight=photo

Steve...:)

I agree with Trenna - its a great idea but it still relies on sufficient members to vote to get a reasonable result. If you look at the voting in the fortnightly competition there have only been 7/8 votes in the last few weeks (I'm guilty of not always voting :o) The risk I think Steve's suggestion runs is that, unless there is one absolutely standout photo we will get a number with the same number of votes... and then someone still has to make a decision.

On the other hand if it was my responsibility once every, say six weeks, I would put. Note in my diary to remind me to do it. Obviously majority decision on this one.

The mods have been quiet on this one so far - do you have a view guys?

Do you not think that if the voting is that much easier, more votes would be cast? Seems to me that sending an email with votes is far too long winded and if I am being honest...its not something I would do. Not because I do not want to vote, but because I have to switch programmes to do it.

And with a little bit of coding done to the site, the vote process could be made into a button, next to the photo, those votes could be logged in the database and a readout for admins/mods produced. It just takes a little thought.

I too would be interested in what the site owners think...

Steve...:)

there are only 7 or 8 people responding to this and that is pretty much all we will get with voting... I think putting up a reminder in the gallery would have helped remind people to vote but that never happened, & it was a bit complicated to vote..... I agree Steve your way of voting sounds a great way to vote if the majority want to still vote...... but what about we try Clives idea and see how we go..... Peter said he is happy to go with what ever we want to try,so lets make a decision and get started on POTW again.
what does everyone else want to do?
vote or have a few people to choose POTW.

Why only 7 or 8?..There are 6 and a half thousand members here, this does not make any sense at all.

Steve...:)

Similar suggestions have been made before, but to no avail.

http://www.worldphotographyforum.com...ead.php?t=3229

I rather like Clive's idea. One thing I have always wanted from the gallery is for people to explain why they like a particular image. Gratifying as it is to get the 'great shot' comments, this doesnt actually help improve your photography. Having one person make a personal selection and explain what it is that makes it POTW in their eyes would be very interesting, especially if as is suggested, it is a different person doing the selection week on week.
I'd be happy to take a turn.
An alternative along the same lines would be to have a sticky thread where anyone could post their personal POTW and explain why. I would suggest that the only rules would be that it shouldnt be an image of your own, and that each person should choose just one image. That might mean that some weeks we had multiple POTWs, but that isnt necessarily a bad thing, and might encourage more people to engage in some constructive comment and critiscism on the site, rather than set up what could be seen as an elite closed group...