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[2020] 10th Mini Poll Results
well this is rather deflating ...
Um. OK? I voted for that one so that is something I guess.
What the heck, that is deflating! Let’s get some unique and exciting suggestions tomorrow!
Do you think we should go back to only 15 suggestions? Maybe our votes are just getting too spread out to generate results.
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I am totally okay with the prompt that won, and I'm good with the bottom one... I do wish western was in the bottom lol.
Hooray for a new round tomorrow! Can't wait to see what get's suggested.
The spreadsheet is updated
Yes I was thinking the votes are being too diluted because of the spread
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I'm happy that the non-traditional family prompt got in since that was one of my top picks, but it's disappointing to get only one winner. I was surprised that none of the cover prompts got in or were even close calls.
That is rather anti-climactic... I'm reasonably happy with the prompt that won, but just one winner is a bit sad.
It is a bit disappointing to only have one winner. All three were in my top.
I’m really happy with the prompt that won, but there were so many other prompts I liked this round that I wanted more winners.I do wonder if one of the reasons only a couple of prompts get through each week is that our votes are spread thinly with 20 suggestions, so I would like to have 15 suggestions for each poll and see if that would make a difference.
Hannah wrote: "I’m really happy with the prompt that won, but there were so many other prompts I liked this round that I wanted more winners.I do wonder if one of the reasons only a couple of prompts get throug..."
I agree. I'd like to see if limiting to 15 prompts would help get more prompts selected.
It would seem that our concern at having few cover prompts was not felt by many.
I agree that 20 is too many to choose from.
I think it's exactly what Emily said that the large number of cover prompts split the vote up.
I set up a poll for the number of suggestions for the next mini poll. We'll go with whatever is winning at the time to open the suggestion thread tomorrow. https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...
If we have less prompts will we have less votes?8 seems like a lot of votes for only 10 prompts.
Yeah - if there are 10 prompts, I think 6 votes would make sense.
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Katie wrote: "I set up a poll for the number of suggestions for the next mini poll. We'll go with whatever is winning at the time to open the suggestion thread tomorrow. https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1..."
Can we get an announcement for this poll? If you don't read all of this discussion, you will miss it.
Emily wrote: "Katie posted it on the Announcement's thread.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."
Weird I am supposed to get notifications from the announcements thread but I didn't this time around. :(
Ugh. Depressing and demotivating results. Still no genre or cover prompts? Sadly, the winner was one of my bottom votes, so I'm not remotely excited.
I wonder why the votes are not netting any winners. So many people were excited about these prompts and to come away with only one is depressing indeed.
I’m disappointed about the western prompt...as well as only having one winner. I was finally going to work Lonesome Dove into a challenge.
I just want a balanced list. I feel like I vote, and it doesn't matter.
I'm disappointed about the western as well, Jette. It isn't a genre I read, so I felt it would be a good way to challenge myself and yet find something I would love. Angie, I know what you mean, but perhaps it will all work out in the end.
I’m not surprised. People seemed to be all over the place. I didn’t vote for the winner but am ok with it. I was really hoping for the Western prompt but maybe one of the books I want to read for that prompt will fit into the prompt that won.
Jette- Having Read Lonesome Dove, I think you could include it for the non-traditional family prompt. The family for the boy Newt is Gus and Call and the rest of the cowboys on the cattle drive!
Ahhh that is disappointing.I voted for the winner - so say. The bottom was in my bottom - so yay. Polarizing was in my bottom.
But only 1 winner, sad.
We’ve pretty much always had 20 suggestions for each vote with a few exceptions. I’m wondering if the way the votes can be placed anywhere instead of 4 and 4 is causing us to have less top choices this go around.
I’m wondering if we should go back to the 4 up and 4 down votes? Did we get more winners that way?
Well that is deflating. I didn't have strong feelings either way about most the prompts, apart from I would have liked some genre ones.
We did get quite a lot of winners in other polls with 20 suggestions and 8 votes to spread out, because some prompts stood out for a lot of people. I agree that this time around the number of cover prompts did split the vote, so we'll see how things go for the next poll with 15 suggestions (the poll results are pretty clear-cut).
A western should be a top just because all the times it has been postulated lol I actually would like to have it finally on the list.
A western should be a top just because all the times it has been postulated lol I actually would like to have it finally on the list.
New poll for if you want to keep the voting the same or go back to top and bottom 4.Poll will close when the voting thread is posted for the 11th mini poll.
https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/1...
Well, that's crummy. I did vote for the winning prompt, so I'm very happy about that, but so disappointed with it being the only one. This was the first time I had 8 up-votes and no down-votes, because I was so excited about so many of the prompts. I actually had to narrow it down to 8 from 14 originally. Hopefully changing the number of prompts will help!
Sometimes I am not using all of my votes. Do other people use all of their votes every time?
Anastasia wrote: "Sometimes I am not using all of my votes. Do other people use all of their votes every time?"Anastasia: I always use all of my votes.
I was a little surprised to just see one winner, but those are the results. I think we should just keep on going and not worry too much about figuring out how to skew the voting results. We are halfway to 52 prompts so hopefully everything will work out.
Anastasia wrote: "Sometimes I am not using all of my votes. Do other people use all of their votes every time?"Yes, I always use all of my votes.
viemag wrote: "I was a little surprised to just see one winner, but those are the results. I think we should just keep on going and not worry too much about figuring out how to skew the voting results. We are hal..."Exactly what I'm thinking, but people are panicking after one disappointing results lol
I think maybe we only had one winner because there were so many good prompts this week. When just a few prompts stand out it is easier to pick a winner. Even though I was only able to upvote 7 there were several more I’d like to have voted for.As to using all my votes, this year I have. Last year, when we had to vote 4/4 I did not always use all my down votes.
Also, I think it is pretty normal for us to be making some changes right now. Last year we also switched mid way from 20-15 prompts (I think this should be the default rather than 20). We also shortened the voting period. Additionally, we had to add the 24 hour rule for participating on the suggestion poll (thankfully that change does not seem needed this year).
I think the biggest issue was that most of the prompts were for cover prompts so people who wanted covers were cancelling each other out because some people wanted this type of cover and some people wanted that type of cover. And then a big group of us didn't want covers at all so we used all our downvotes that we had against all the cover prompts. I really think we do better when we have a good variety of prompts in every minipoll.
Top:
- A book about a non-traditional family (eg. grandparents raising grandkids, LGBTQ+)
Bottom:
- A book by an author with a colour in their name, where that colour also appears on the cover
Polarizing:
- A western
Results are calculated by subtracting the number of voters who put a prompt in their bottom from those who put a prompt in their top (top - bottom). The totals are then compared to find the top result(s).
The next round of suggestions will open tomorrow, Thursday, August 22 at 6:30pm EDT.