Say, you submit a fic to the normal pool, where everyone starts out. People rate it/vote it up, and it gets enough votes and comments or whatever to be in consideration for reviewing by people in the fandom.

When I said this, I didn't necessarily mean just the amount of feedback would be taken into consideration, a stark number all on its own. Pageviews and stuff like that would count too, and if the system isn't some monotlithic group of people that aren't representative of fandom, but smaller groups of volunteers within each fandom that are maybe monitored as much as is feasible for relative representation of genres and common themes in their fandom, the size of a fandom wouldn't be as much of a factor. I'm thinking we could adjust whatever measure that was being used after checking it against experiences that both new and established authors in the fandom had had, too.