Perhaps I should not answer because I am repeating myself, and you
already know how I stand on this. IMHO you are describing a voting
system for the www.POVidols.com site. The original suggestion was to
create a POVmuseum. No offense meant, there probably is a market for
POVidols also. I am not sure I would visit the site myself though.

    Andrel

Tim Nikias v2.0 wrote:
> How about this idea: every artist may present a given maximum of images.
> Now, first of all, there's the owner of the site. Images will go past his
> screening in any case, so he'd probably have to do a rough job of sorting
> images out. Those that he's unsure of will be presented on a voting basis,
> where a certain score has to be reached to get accepted.
> 
> A practical way to do this might be as follows: images submitted during
> January will be voted on during February. "Subscribers" will get
> email-notification that new images are up for voting, maybe with a password
> or such to allow only subscribers. The images get voted by a regulated group
> of people that way.
> Then, there's a certain score level an image would have to reach to get into
> the museum. If it's above that level, the older images from the museum get
> kicked out, their owners get notified in case they want to submit the image
> again for voting or if they want to submit new ones. Images that have been
> in the museum already get marked so that subscribers can see immediately
> that the image isn't new and should thus vote even more carefully if the
> image is to stay/come back.
> 
> That way, there'd be a change in images, different artists show up, there's
> a regulation for the voting system, etc. Of course, this would also mean
> that either there has to be a very automated way of handling things (like
> the password being generated on the fly and sent to the subscribers, image
> upload etc) or a very committed human standing behind all this and keeping
> things running. With an automated system, there still has to be one checking
> on things, e.g. submitted images (e.g. to keep porn away).
> 
> My 2 cents.
> 
> Regards,
> Tim
>

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