What a shame Steve, and you have done well to stick around for so long. But website decline is an awful thing to recover from and to do so often means hard decisions need making about staff etc. I joined ere a few days ago because of the 6400 members and though "Ahh good...a busy site"
I closed my own community/gallery a year ago as I was running into a period of life thats extra busy. We only had a few hundred members but regularly had mpre then a hundred votes for POTW, and nearly everyone voted for POTM.
I had coded a system there like I have descibed in previous posts here and it was 95% automatic, we only had to copy and paste the winners list that the server generated for us, and the voting was a rating system so you could easily rate each photo you viewed...without leaving the page.
If anything does change here, someone drop me a mail to let me know.
Good luck to the site owners, you obviuosly have some tough decisions to make.
Steve...
