Some very interesting ideas here, but in the end, however the PotW is chosen, and whichever picture is chosen people will disagree.
You could set up a committee, but who chooses the committee, and is their choice of picture going to be any different to that which is being chosen at the moment.
You could select an individual member, but who chooses that member. And people will still dispute the choice of member, and their choice of picture.
You could select the picture which has attracted most comments, but not all comments attached to an image are relevant to that picture. (I currently have a picture in the gallery, and at least three of the comments posted have nothing to with my picture, instead they are a debate about Picture of the Week).
Also a lot of people reply to each comment posted on one of their images, thereby giving a false impression.
At the end of the day all theses alternatives are just “variations on a theme,” and will still cause controversy. So let’s leave PotW as it is.
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