"one can work for 3 weeks on a poser image, and, have it buried in 10 minutes..." I'm really trying to understand here. If you image ends up on page 4 after 30 minutes, would that be better? If that's the case, then perhaps cutting posts by 2/3 would be the solution. Other than setting up some criteria like don't post unless you spend at least a week on it or made your own props and textures... If you could enforce that, it would certainly cut down on the number of images. The only other thing to do is get subjective and then you end up with another list compiled by one or more judges and that certainly is a can of worms. If reducing the posts will make most of the people happy then you have my vote. It's been suggested time and again and hasn't happened. Either it hasn't been presented properly or the folks who run things here don't feel it's a good thing for whatever reasons. If someone who feels passionately about this wants to start a petition, email campaign or whatever, just show me where to sign. In the end though, I think that this horse, dead or alive will only end up being whipped again in a few days or weeks.

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