I would like to generate a bit more interest and activity in the best of type gallery. The coin of the day thread is popular and my original idea for the best of type gallery was to create that sort of sharing and fun. I would like to spice it up a bit. Some ideas:
Add a best of type discussion board instead of the single generic Members' Gallery board.
A monthly review which deletes any coin with a rating below 4.1 with more than 10 votes and any coin which is the same type as another with a lower score.
Encouraging people to post challenges (my coin is better) and advertise them on the discussion board.
Anyone like the ideas? Other ideas?
Nice idea to have the competition but since 90% of the coins are
Romans it might be nice to have BOT for
Roman and another for 'Greek and Other'. The
Greek coins kind of get lost in the BOT
gallery among all those
Romans. One other suggestion is to limit the amount of text accompanying a coin illustration - some of the entries are the length of reference books
A link to 'more info' might be better - after all we want to look at all the pretty pictures here more than anything else ...
I agree that having too many sub-galleries in BOT might be overkill (
Roman alone could have RR,
LRB, etc.) but a simple BOT-Greek and BOT-Roman might be helpful without letting things get out of hand with too many categories. That said, without categories it's harder to implement a competition unless folks scan a *lot* of images to see if there's one off on some other page that they'd rate higher or lower than the one they're looking at. I like the idea but not sure the best way to do it so we can see competing coins 'side-by-side'.
PtolemAE