Over the past 2 weeks, and might of been happening in the 20 weeks beforehand but i never really payed too much attention, theres been a few arguments surrounding PhOTW
My suggestion it to make it Themeless, in which we still stay with the name of the Competition, We just post our best picture, no matter what its of, and post it in the competition. Surely one of you has seen something brilliant to take a photo of, and then you find it doesn't fit the theme of the competition?, well this way we may get even better photos as people aren't limited to a theme.
As i mentioned, there were arguments over the last 2 themes, people had taken the time to get those great photographs for the competition, for them to be disallowed, This way that wouldnt happen. This might not work/might do, i'm not 100% sure, all i know is a few people that enter PhOTW are considering stopping because of the reasons above, and its would be a shame to see that :)