In all honesty the whole POTD and POTW thing has grown into complete absurdity. I know there's much critique about the voting system for pictures, and while I'm not directly supporting to overhaul it itself, it's obvious that the POTD/W feature only nourishes neurotic efforts to get some of the alleged attention that comes from it, which evidently has a strong negative effect on the idea that votes should indicate content quality. At the risk of getting flamed (have at it): A prime example are the current two PsOTD/W which IMO are nothing more but an insult to the high quality pictures found throughout the depths of SP.
My suggestion: Show one random picture on the front page instead of POTD/W, which changes with every page load. It could either show completely random pictures out of all there are, or pick from a pool of pictures selected on criteria such as [most recent OR above a certain score].
If you have an opinion on the matter, please share.