and if the forum is great ... it's to everyone's credit.

Hopefully, we can all learn to appreciate the essential je ne sais quoi that makes any image worthy of IotD.

Maybe this discussion will be helpful to provide some guidance toward the potential of that thread.

For my part, I'll think more carefully about the "quality and impact" of any image that I'd post to the thread.

I'd rather see you move "unworthy" posts from IotD to another image thread rather than provide a pre-screening queue.

In many cases the "of the Day" aspect means that an image has impact because of the timing of the post, such as with "Plane crashes into Tampa office tower" which was a relevant post made within the hour of the event by a member and getting 86 replies and 1732 page views. That post would have been of much lesser impact if posted a day or two later as it got submitted to a queue.

So, basically, there is no consensus.

That's cool, it gives me license to do whatever I want.

I don't like the idea of voting on IOTD's.

Tony is very good at choosing images that can provoke intelligent discussion. Frankly, I don't think groupthink can produce the quality he can. I'm not trying to be a suck-up, though. It's just true.

All I know is that, if Tony does provide for voting in IotD, I'm always going to be voting for his posts, not 'cause I'm sucking up, but because it's true. ;)

You people, always sucking up.

(avoiding the point entirely)

I don't suck, I reduce atmospheric pressure
 

:p

I think that the "Quality Images" forum should be renamed to "User-Contributed Images". It's much more descriptive.