Still, I feel there should be more incentive to seek out and critique new unknown galleries without being personally asked to do so by each gallery owner.
500 or so galleries on the popular lists is quite a bit of pretty good unknown to for me to look at. I know what you mean though. Something that is not to trumped up would be ok in my book. i don't know what that would be though.
How do people know to go to my gallery in order to be asked to leave critiques if I haven't already told them to go to my gallery and leave critiques?
Again, upload good pics and you will become visible. It's how it works.
It's not fair for any of us to artificially "compel" people to go to our galleries and vote.
Nobody wants anyone to cheat votes.
The other thing that borders on artificial is uploading often...
Many people work on one file at a time like myself. The best way to maximize your efforts is to send that pix straight up whenever possible. There is nothing artificial about that at all and it takes only a few secs with high speed. you have the file open already. It's the smart way to do things if you have time and the quality pix. A company does not buy all of it's advertisements in the same time slot does it? nope..
So in order for me to stay on the recently uploaded list, I might be tempted to delete and upload the same pic or folder every day. That's not fair.
I think people have got in trouble for this sort of thing.
Let's do what we can to prevent this abuse from happening.
Who said anything about this but you? No one wants cheaters around here. Maybe you should read the 3 or 4 very long threads on cheating I think.
Sounds like you are complaining that you don't not have enough pix or the time to do the work. In this case I suggest you are getting what you pay for.
I spent 10 months or so shooting 50,000 shots to get 10,000 or so pretty good ones to upload. I spent 10-12 hours a day here at pbase the last two-three months editing and uploading pix. First 600 sucked and nobody visited my galleries. Waste of everyones time. I then started uploading better more interesting pix and one day they just started to come. It will be no different for you if you have the pix to put on the board.
Cheers