Poll to determine polling methods

[tracilicious]

Ok, since we need to decide on a way to decide on a book here's a poll. Can this be a short poll? Shall we close in two days?

[tracilicious]

I took too long adding the poll and now it won't let me. Will a mod add the poll for me?

The selections I was going to put are:

1. If more than ten selections, each person picks top five...Alex does math.
2. Each active member chooses a book for the month on a rotating basis.
3. Limit nominations to one per person per month.

[wendybeth]

Done!

[Prudence]

I think I'd feel more comfortable if we could first take an opinion poll on forming a task group to research the issue and report their findings to a blue ribbon panel who will then present the best options to the group for a vote.

[Not Afraid]

I'm going to throw up now.

[tracilicious]

I'm going to throw up now.

Don't throw up in front of me. I can't see anyone throw up without hurling myself.

And yes, it probably is a bit ridiculous to have a poll, but I thought that if we could just decide this once and for all then we won't have to have the same discussion every month about how we are going to decide. A stitch in time and all...

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Thanks to Traci for setting up the poll. "I am not a committee!"

[€uroMeinke]

I think I'd feel more comfortable if we could first take an opinion poll on forming a task group to research the issue and report their findings to a blue ribbon panel who will then present the best options to the group for a vote.

Isn't that we effectively just did in the preceeding thread?

[€uroMeinke]

I picked the 5- book method, but really, I'd only want to rank my top 3 books, my opinions don't get that much granular.

[Prudence]

Isn't that we effectively just did in the preceeding thread?

But there was no blue ribbon panel! That's the most important part!

[€uroMeinke]

But there was no blue ribbon panel! That's the most important part!

That happend in the super secret blue ribbon panel boards behind the scenes here - you'll just have to trust me on that

[Not Afraid]

I chose the 5 book method partly because that's what we seem to be successfully doing in the other thread already. Besides, it is interesting to see what others pick.

[Matterhorn Fan]

My choice is not on the poll (i.e., enough polls about polls, just pick a book already and then I'll decide if I want to play).

;)

[Prudence]

That happend in the super secret blue ribbon panel boards behind the scenes here - you'll just have to trust me on that

Oh sure, yet another clique activity from which I was excluded. :rolleyes:

[tracilicious]

I don't really like the 5 book method, as I don't really have a top five. I like picking on a rotational basis, as I think that we will read a wider variety of books that way, but I seem to be in the minority.

[Matterhorn Fan]

No one's stopping anyone from reading the other books on the nominations lists (or from the Booker Prize shortlist, or the NYT bestsellers list, or any other list you happen upon).

Anyhow, I don't think this group is in danger of getting into a rut.

[Ghoulish Delight]

No one's stopping anyone from reading the other books on the nominations lists (or from the Booker Prize shortlist, or the NYT bestsellers list, or any other list you happen upon).

Anyhow, I don't think this group is in danger of getting into a rut.
The space time continuum is stopping me as I'm a slow enough reader when reading just one book.

[€uroMeinke]

No one's stopping anyone from reading the other books on the nominations lists (or from the Booker Prize shortlist, or the NYT bestsellers list, or any other list you happen upon).

Anyhow, I don't think this group is in danger of getting into a rut.

Yeah, this is pretty much my thought process - we're pretty informal, so I'm sure many of us will drop in or out as the whim catches us. I intend to start thread on books I read that don't make the list if it moves me in particular, but I think voting at least ensure a larger number of people will actually read and participate in the ensuing discussion (or at least watch the movie). And if it turns out that this gets monopolized by a particular genre, we can always reinvent ourselves when enough of us get bored.

[Stan4dSteph]

So is there going to be a new thread to list all of the nominees where we will pick our five? You can set up a poll to allow multiple selections, but it won't weight the responses.

I need to read my nominee anyway before October.