Recently active ideas in 8020 Publishing about JPG magazine

A while back (I think when the dreamscapes theme was open) I was asked to remove one of my images from the site because I hadn't followed the upload guidelines. I think the whole situation was diffused because I was asked to remove the image, and the JPG rep explained why I was being asked to remove it, rather than being told it had been removed.

The difference is pretty subtle, but I think in a community like JPG, if you just explain the problem and give people the freedom to do the right thing, more often than not you'll get the results you want and not damage the relationship.

I have 2 suggestions on ways to help know where your photo stands against others:

1. We can see how many votes our own photos get, but not how many anyone else gets. I think there should be at least a way to know how many average votes the top photos are getting, so we would know if we needed to change photos.

2. Since I keep tabs on my votes, this is a problem. 1 of my photos currently up for vote, but is an older photo and thus is a ways down the photoblog. I have 2 ideas: a "sticky" or "featured" picture so those currently up for vote are near the top, or at least adding a "votes" tab to the "account activity" page.

And yes, I am aware that votes aren't the whole story, but if that's all you have to get an idea of how close you are, I would like to know.

It would be very helpful to have some ranking or human-selected list of the better stories. I know a very few get space on the homepage (and some get published of course), but there are an awful lot of good stories that just get lost in the chronological string.

If people don't have a lot of time, but would like to see the recent best or most popular submissions, there's currently no way to do that.

I believe that a nice feature would be to give the ability to perform searches based on the photo title and description.

I know 8020 has been doing a lot of work behind the scenes however, my #1 request would be the ability to import pictures from Flickr to JPG. That is probably my number barrier to uploading more pictures.

BTW on a separate note. I do not see a way to show all the pictures that have had recent comments aka Flickr Recent Activity. This would be very useful.