Thanks for the input Mattyboy.
As I take it, this should be understood not as a call to highlight the missteps of other members, but instead to re-evaluate many of our own posts.
Self-policing is inherently one of the best ways to see older, less than desirable images removed from the site. For most of us we tend to encounter many of the same vessels on repeat occasions, and as a result, find better ways to photograph them.
Thus as we improve our techniques, I would encourage a nostalgia trip to take a look at older images from our early days at the site where questionable, or even worse, images may have slipped through with a mast or lamp post in the foreground, a sloped horizon, haziness and poor quality due to an older camera, or any other detrimental factors. In more recent cases, we may have settled for a poor image at the time in order to contribute a "first sighting" to the site. Now, months or years later, that vessel has been photographed since, but our sub-par image still remains. Removing these outliers not only cleans out the site, but also helps weed out the detractors and highlight the gems in our early contributions, showing progress towards the current standards we hold for ourselves.
I myself took a look back through my earliest submissions and found about two dozen photos that were easy to decide to delete.
Kind Regards,
Kyle