Josh, I think it might be more complicated than that. The big question isn’t quality, but repetition. There’s a BrickCon photostream on flickr where anybody can post their BrickCon pics and it’s some 18000 pics dating back to 2008 and I’ve been going through them in reverse order for some two months now and the problem I see isn’t quality (although occassionally it is), but the fact that I’m seeing the same things over and over again. Every now and then I’ll see one of some cool detail that nobody else got, but mostly people take pics of the most noticeable stuff. On our display, of course Matt took pics of the Santa Factory and Evan’s SHIP just like I did. I’m seeing one of the main functions of the homepage flickr stream as getting people who are not currently part of SCL interested in joining. On the first full pic of Evan’s SHIP, they’re saying “that’s awesome.” On the twelfth, they’re saying “hmm, that looks familiar, this is getting boring” (sorry Evan).
Also less of an issue, but maybe worth considering, is the tendency for people to do extra photos of their own stuff. I tried to get as much as I could of everybody stuff, but I definitely wasn’t shy when it came to shooting my own stuff or putting it in the set, since it’s my flickr stream (and I did weed a whole bunch out, yes there were more). So that could lead to some flickr flooding too.
So I’m doing a good job here of being one of those people who complains about something but doesn’t have a solution. Cause I’m not sure what it is. Possibly have one person in charge of the official LUG photostream who goes through other members’ streams and selects the photo set. That’s a really time-consuming job though, and no, that’s not me volunteering either. But that’s all I got right now.