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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"Tim Nikias v2.0"
Homepage: <http://www.nolights.de>
Email: tim.nikias (@) nolights.de

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