See http://meta.photo.stackexchange.com/questions/4387/what-thread-format-do-you-prefer-for-picture-of-the-day-contest/4 for when we went through this last year. :)

I continue to think it's working relatively well, but I also see the problem dpollitt notes, of it taking way too long. If we had full programmatic control of the contest engine, we could do something like have all entries expire after three months or something. (That's better than clearing the whole thing after three months.)

I still like my suggestion from the last time: keep the ongoing contest as-is, but (re)start themed contests on a shorter timeframe (say, once per month). That calls for a lot more work from one of the mods. In fact, that's true of pretty much any other suggestion. So, I've added a question to http://meta.photo.stackexchange.com/a/4917/1943

See What thread format do you prefer for Picture of the Day contest? for when we went through this last year. :)

I continue to think it's working relatively well, but I also see the problem dpollitt notes, of it taking way too long. If we had full programmatic control of the contest engine, we could do something like have all entries expire after three months or something. (That's better than clearing the whole thing after three months.)

I still like my suggestion from the last time: keep the ongoing contest as-is, but (re)start themed contests on a shorter timeframe (say, once per month). That calls for a lot more work from one of the mods. In fact, that's true of pretty much any other suggestion. So, I've added a question to https://photo.meta.stackexchange.com/a/4917/1943