Who is regularly getting 100+ views on an image in a week here? I went through the What's Hot list (already heavily cherry picked) and I saw like one post with more than 100 views, most less than 50. Even site legends like RGUS don't usually break 100 views in a month, let alone a week. 

The two big things I'd suggest (banning generative AI and limiting gallery posts to 1 or 2 per day) are probably off limits but a suggestion I have is maybe it's okay to funnel people away from the store to the gallery, encourage gallery posters to link to products used and then link the store listing back to gallery posts (subject to some kind of editorial approval, whether by the individual store seller or whatever).

Hype the gallery more on the front page. Hype individual gallery posters on the front page and in the newsletter. Show off highly polished gallery pieces in the forum banners  or sidebars sometimes. Have contests. They don't have to have giant cash awards, just hype the winners, maybe on the front page or the blog again.

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