A sugestion!
There seems to be a degree of disatisfaction at the way that the POTD is chosen. Apparently, and before my time, the images were voted on and this apparently lead to disreputable and underhand practices. There now exists a system whereby some anonymous being at the magazine chooses the images. It seems from the gripes on this thread that that person is ignoring the vast numbers of images that exist on the site and concentrates on a narrow spectrum within the site.
OK, so how about one contibutor being chosen each day to select the four pictures. The mag can email a contributor a week in advance of the day to ask for his or her participation in the selection, with a deadline of a couple of days before the day offered to submit the selection. There maybe a way of registering to indicate your willingness to participate.
You can't be selected to choose more than once a quarter, you can't select your own pictures, and with a weeks notice you won't be able to select current images.
Of course you will not always agree with the selection but there is a wide range of photographic styles within the site and thus the selection process will reflect that.
It would take the responsibilty from the DCM staff, but initially it may require a bit more managment time to start with, but once up and running it should be no more onerous. I also think it would make contributors look in more detail at the galleries and unearth those gems that slip through the net.
Those that are rarely chosen, or if at all, can only then blame their fellow photographers, not some nameless and I think blameless individual in Bath.
One flaw in the plan, you are chosen as the selector, you then contact your mates to see what images of theirs they would like you to select. God forbid that would ever happen!!! ;)
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