I have taken the situation into my own hands, and recently called a staff meeting to discuss things. This is how things will work concerning MOTW, AOTW and COTW.
Each week, the staff will nominate an avatar and a member in the staff forum. I will collect those nominations and post a poll each week. This way, there will always be a MOTW and AOTW. Hopefully myself and the staff here can keep this going. Allowing the public to send in nominations doesnt seem to be working. I would like to publicly apologize to Zack, who at one point I did ask to take over AOTW. With little nomnations, there wasnt much he could do.
COTW will be handled a little different. The staff is going to rotate each week, that way not one person is stuck doing it every week. Hopefully this will make the flow of things a little easier.
I would like to mention though, if you, the general community here, have a nomination or a suggestion for COTW, feel free to pm a staff member with it. I will gladly add any nomination to the poll or use a picture for COTW if you have one.
If you have any questions, let me know.