[Closed] Voting for 3rd mini-poll closed

[Laura, Mod]

The 2016 Reading Challenge will continue the concept of this year's challenge, with 52 weekly topics. Users then choose a book fitting each topic in order to complete the challenge. 3 of the (future) mini-polls will be devoted strictly to "small book" suggestions, allowing for one short book each month.

How it will work:
The topics for the 2016 RC list will be determined through 13 mini-polls. Each user will vote for their favorite 4 topics in each mini-poll, which will then add up to the 52 topics (13 polls x 4 topics/poll=52 weekly topics). This timeframe allows for a completed list at the beginning of December.

EDIT: Voting ends July 14 at 8:00am EST

Rules:
- Each person can take the survey one time.
- Due to restrictions in the previous site, the survey has been moved to a different platform. But the idea is the same: choose four themes in the first question and then rank them in the second. You can drag and drop the rank picks instead of choosing the drop down choices, if you prefer.

See the first post in the Announcements for the running list of chosen themes

The Suggestions thread contains more elaborate descriptions of some of the suggestions, including examples

Survey Link

[Zaz, Mood Minion]

For those who don't know (like me), the Newbery Medal is an award for children books, since 1922!

[Brittany (tinsel hoarding bookdragon)]

I'm not sure if I'm the only one this has happened to, but when I hit "finish survery" it took me to a log-in screen to create an account...I'm not sure if my votes actually got submitted.

[Zaz, Mood Minion]

I'd the same thing but if I remember well it often happens with these types of sites. They lack a page to confirm the vote is saved.

[Brittany (tinsel hoarding bookdragon)]

At least it wasn't just mine! I guess we will find out on the 19th if there aren't any votes that saved! haha

[Bana AZ]

Brittany wrote: "I'm not sure if I'm the only one this has happened to, but when I hit "finish survery" it took me to a log-in screen to create an account...I'm not sure if my votes actually got submitted."

Me too.

[Charity]

Mine did the same thing. I almost voted again but I didn't want it to go through twice if it did save.

[Laura, Mod]

I actually noticed that when I took it myself. I always test them out by taking it before I post the link to the group. It came up and said there was one response and had my answers on the results page. So yes they're going through!

Which is sort of silly because when you create the survey it lets you customize the "finish" screen.

But.. we actually already have 53 responses! I'm thinking about shortening the window to take the survey because last time the responses stopped by the last few days. That would give us a little more time in December to finalize a list and start looking for books by the start of the year :)

[Brittany (tinsel hoarding bookdragon)]

Laura wrote: "I'm thinking about shortening the window to take the survey because last time the responses stopped by the last few days. That would give us a little more time in December to finalize a list and start looking for books by the start of the year "


Laura, I second this opinion. I think people would be ok losing a few days to vote to give us more time to finalize next years plan :)

[Francesca]

Laura wrote: "I'm thinking about shortening the window to take the survey because last time the responses stopped by the last few days. That would give us a little more time in December to finalize a list and start looking for books by the start of the year :)"

I think that might be a good idea. I think the time slots worked well when we thought the suggestions were going to take longer but as the suggestions are being finished after a couple of days, the wait for the poll results is very long. If they're a little bit shorter then we could probably get the full/final list by December and then, like you said, that'll give us all a chance to get used to the list and start picking some books before the start of January so we can actually start with the challenge at the right time.

[Zaz, Mood Minion]

No problem for me with shortening the window if everybody votes in the 1st week :)

[Nicole]

"A book your grandparents are owning"

Does this mean a book your grandparents own(ed)? I am sort of unsure about what this means. Also... tough for us who no longer have living grandparents or ones who read.

[Zaz, Mood Minion]

Nicole, I understand it like you. It has the same problem as the "loved by your mother" topic this year, some people changed it for "parent/friend/child/lover" for this reason. I'll do it if the suggestion is in the 52.

[Bana AZ]

Brittany wrote: "Laura wrote: "I'm thinking about shortening the window to take the survey because last time the responses stopped by the last few days. That would give us a little more time in December to finalize..."

Here, here!

[Camilla]

Laura wrote: "I'm thinking about shortening the window to take the survey because last time the responses stopped by the last few days."

I think that is a good idea. Those of us who want to vote will most likely do it in the first week since the poll has opened anyway. And for the members who want to read in the correct week order it would indeed give a bit of a time to get the first books.

[Sophie]

I'm sure that everyone could be able to take the poll during one week, I don't think that it is necessary to leave it too the 19th...

[Sophie]

Oh and the poll is so much easier to take on surveymoz! I'm on holiday so I took it on my phone and it works perfectly, great change!

[Laura, Mod]

I really like the surveymoz too, Sophie! It's definitely easier to just drag/drop.

[Laura, Mod]

I'm going to go ahead and end the voting on this Tuesday, July 14.

For those of you interested in the more detailed runnings of the 2016 list, the new schedule will have alternating weeks for the opening of suggestions. They will open either Sunday or Tuesday and the poll will likely be posted the next day (going by the completion of suggestions in previous polls). The poll will then stay open for one week.

Don't worry about trying to keep track of the dates, unless that interests you. I'll try to keep everyone informed of coming postings :)

This allows for a preliminary list to be done October 28, giving us the month of November to finalize and the month of December to get books.

[Francesca]

That sounds great!

[Charity]

Sounds good!

[Peter]

Thanks for all the work you're putting into this Laura! I know it's been a collaborative effort in terms of the "how", but you've been instrumental in the actual execution of the group's plan! Very much appreciated!

I like the new survey format and it will be nice to have some time to sort out the order and track down books.

I know this is off topic, but I'm not sure if it's being discussed anywhere - do we have a plan or idea of how to actually order the topics once we have them all? I honestly don't really care about the order, I'm a jumper, I'm just curious.

[Brittany (tinsel hoarding bookdragon)]

Laura wrote: "I'm going to go ahead and end the voting on this Tuesday, July 14.

For those of you interested in the more detailed runnings of the 2016 list, the new schedule will have alternating weeks for the..."



Laura, you my dear are just totally awesome :)

[Laura, Mod]

*takes a bow*

haha jk! I don't mind, its actually kind of fun :)

[Laura, Mod]

But as far as the ordering of the list:

I was also a jumper this year. I'm going to try to read in order next year for discussion purposes but I may not be able to pull it off since library holds were a lot of the reason why I jumped.

But since I didn't read in order, others may be better suited for coming up with ideas on how to decide. If there aren't ideas then I would probably just open a thread in open a thread in October for any opinions on the placement of specific themes, since we'll have a preliminary list at that point.

[Brittany (tinsel hoarding bookdragon)]

I was a jumper this year as well, mainly because I like to read what I want to read when I want to read it! haha, but next year I'm going to TRY to read in order for discussion purposes as well. Maybe once we have all of the topics selected in October we can do one more survey for people to order the topics like they want kind of like for these surveys and we can go by most popular? Or perhaps alternate like 1, 52, 2, 51, 3, 50, etc so people aren't reading all of their first picks first!

[Zaz, Mood Minion]

Or the mods can decide 3-4 orders and we'll do a poll to vote for the preferred one. I don't think the order really matters if it's well balanced with very different topics in the same month.

[Sophie]

I agree Zaz. And since there seems to be a lot of jumpers, maybe only few people would get involved in the choosing of the order. Consequently, it would be easier to choose only from a few suggestions than to order 52 themes.

[Maple]

Personally, I'd be okay with the mods, or a few people devising the order. I love that selecting the challenge topics for next year has been so member centered; that we all have a say and but in for the outcome. However, looking at how daunting of a task a poll would be to rank all 52 topics. Well, not the poll itself as much as adding the results up. There would just be too many options to get a good cluster of opinion. There would be a good possibility of evenly mixed (flat) results.

Anyway, I'm rambling. I just wanted to say that I would be okay with one or a few people determining the order for next year. I just think for everyone involved having fewer hands in the kitchen, per say, would be a good way to avoid a headache.

All this being said, if others aren't okay with that little say in the rankings, it could be good to ask for suggestions in a thread, with no promises of rankings, of course.

[Francesca]

I actually agree, I think to rank all the 52 options it'll be easier if less people are deciding. Too many cooks could be an issue for the ranking as everyone may have completely different opinions and it could get very complicated.

[Camilla]

Manda wrote: " I just wanted to say that I would be okay with one or a few people determining the order for next year."

I agree with this too. I trust our mods in that they would not make an extremely difficult order of books but a balanced enough one. However, as I'm a jumper (mostly due to all the other challenges and group reads I'm participating in), the actual order of the books is not that important to me anyway.

[Sophie]

If people want a say in the ranking, what could be done is present the 52 topics and ask them to write a comment only if they'd like the theme to be in a special period of the year (month, season, holiday). That way the mods could place the topics with a preference first and then fill the gaps with the others.

[Ella]

I don't care about the order either, I'm a jumper. I tried for a while to stay on track but I just couldn't do it.

[.•*¨`*•✿ ✿•*¨`*•. Christine .•*¨`*•✿ ✿•*¨`*•]

Jumper here too, so order really doesn't matter.

[Charity]

I'm a jumper too so order doesn't matter to me either. What I read depends on my mood so I knew if I tried to read in order I'd never get it done.