Surfer-Submitted Photos

[kristian]

I'm looking into the possibilites of adding this feature to one of my sites. There was a thread here in the past dealing with the legal ramifications of such sites. After a little personal research and phone calls, I now know how to make it legal - as legal as anything apparently is nowadays.

What I don't know is how best to setup everything. How to motivate surfers. Getting the ball rolling, I suppose, would be the hard part. High traffic levels would be required, coupled with a frequency of exhibitionists.

Does anyone have any experience or knowledge that might help?

I feel I might also be a little naive here. Perhaps the surfer submitted photos belong to webmasters like myself, pushing supposed amateur pics? Or maybe they are the real deal?

In any case, I may have to wait until traffic is at a suitable level. My intial gameplan for generating submissions is this:

1. Add some exclusive amateur content shot by myself.

2. Offer incentives - competitions.

God, I sound lame. *L* Any incite into how I might get the ball rolling would be appreciated