[2023] Poll 1 Results

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Happy first results day! And it's a good one!

Top
A book where books are important
A book with a faceless person on the cover
A book with a body of water in the title

Bottom
A book by an author no more than two degrees of separation away from you
A book of poetry or free verse

Listopias
A book where books are important
A book with a faceless person on the cover
A book with a body of water in the title

The next round of suggestions will open around noon CST on Thursday, July 7.

[dalex]

Hooray! What a great start.

[°~Amy~°]

Nice variety! We got a content prompt, a cover prompt and a title prompt. I didn't mind the two bottoms but I can see why they weren't popular. I am excited to see what everyone comes up with for round 2!

[Thomas]

I'm sorry that the poetry in particular got bottomed otherwise a resonable mix to start iwth.

[Ellie]

Obviously happy my own suggestion got in, and I love bookish books. I don't think I voted either way on body of water but I seem to have plenty of books that fit. Good start!

[RachelG.]

I hope the genealogy, genetics prompt gets resubmitted later in the process. I really enjoyed that one.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I agree, RachelG.

I will say that there was a lot of back and forth all week. Lots of prompts came in and out of the top as we tallied the votes over the weekend, so I'd say a lot of these should be resubmitted later in the process when they have a bit more room to breathe.

[Nadine in NY]

Oh dear, NONE of my five upvotes made it in the top (and one of them - poetry - was in the bottom). I'm sure things will even out later!

[dalex]

I looked up a list of bodies of water to see if I could find anything more interesting and unusual than "lake" and "sea" and I definitely found some cool options, such as burn (a large stream or a small river). There's also words within words, like "cove" in coven and discover.

[Jillian]

I’m happy the book prompt made it!

[Sue]

I liked most of the prompts this round. I hope some will get resubmitted.

[Anastasia]

Please add "The Binding" by Bridget Collins to the book where books are important listopia. I am on mobile and unable to do so. Thank you

[Tracy]

Do resubmissions have to be made by the original submitter?

[Hilde]

Anastasia wrote: "Please add "The Binding" by Bridget Collins to the book where books are important listopia. I am on mobile and unable to do so. Thank you"

Hi, I added it for you.

Good first round with three prompts getting through :)

[Hilde]

Tracy wrote: "Do resubmissions have to be made by the original submitter?"

No (at least I don't think so)

[°~Amy~°]

Tracy wrote: "Do resubmissions have to be made by the original submitter?"

They do not. I personally would ask on the discussion board if the original poster intends to post it again but you certainly don't have to do that.

[Nancy]

Yay for books! The Listopia is making so very happy right now.

I didn't vote for the other two but I didn't downvote them either and can definitely find something that works.

Also the author no more than 2 degrees from you is a great example of a suggestion that got lots of discussion in the Wild thread and looked like it would make it, and yet is in the bottom.

[Tracy]

Thanks @Hilde and @°~Amy~°

I am the original suggester of the Genetics/Genealogy prompt, and would be happy for someone else to re-suggest it. I’m happy to do it myself also, but I have a few other ideas I also want to suggest.

[Pamela, Arciform Mod]

Three is a good start!!

[Edie]

A nice mix prompts.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Poetry fans, don’t forget you can read poetry for any prompt, as long as the book is long enough.

As far as the degrees of separation prompt, it’s likely that some voters didn’t read any of the explanations. If they don’t immediately know what it is, they downvote or ignore it.
It’s hard for us to imagine not being interested in the whole discussion process, but if you look at how many people are on the spreadsheet, it is a lot more than participate in discussion. I’m sure there are others who don’t use the spreadsheet, just track on their own.

[Shannon SA]

Nice first round results :)

[Tracy]

Robin P wrote: "Poetry fans, don’t forget you can read poetry for any prompt, as long as the book is long enough.

As far as the degrees of separation prompt, it’s likely that some voters didn’t read any of the e..."

Similarly to Robin P.'s suggestion about using poetry to fulfill another prompt, since I liked the idea of the reading from an author with a 2nd degree of separation, I may pull from that list when I'm choosing other books from the prompts that DO make it.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

And to add on to Robin, a reminder that there is no page requirement for the regular ATY challenge, just the seasonal and Read-a-Thons! So you can read poetry for all of the prompts, if you can make them fit lol

[Kat]

I love the first results day feeling.

Could the body of water prompt be interpreted to include the names of bodies of water? (Atlantic, Thames, Superior etc.)

[Thomas]

Kat wrote: "I love the first results day feeling.

Could the body of water prompt be interpreted to include the names of bodies of water? (Atlantic, Thames, Superior etc.)"

I think it alwyas was

[Thomas]

Emily wrote: "And to add on to Robin, a reminder that there is no page requirement for the regular ATY challenge, just the seasonal and Read-a-Thons! So you can read poetry for all of the prompts, if you can mak..."

that ought to be a BIO option

[Traci]

Kat wrote: "I love the first results day feeling.

Could the body of water prompt be interpreted to include the names of bodies of water? (Atlantic, Thames, Superior etc.)"

Yes! In my suggestion, I mentioned this could be general or specific (I know of a couple with the Nile that I was going to add but GR isn't letting me add to the listopia right now).

In my TBR, I also found A Girl is a Body of Water, for a twist on the wording.

[Mandy]

i'm still hoping the rabbit makes an appearance. and wizard of oz.

[Mandy]

Just found this Listopia already made.

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

[Jackie, Solstitial Mod]

Mandy wrote: "Just found this Listopia already made.

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1..."

Oooh very helpful

[Nadine in NY]

Can I get some opinions on the faceless people?

I know this is faceless:


But is this faceless? it's just showing hands and maybe a lap - is that enough of a person?



Is this faceless? It's a silhouette of a face, so it's a face. (I saw a similar book in the listopia):


Is this "faceless" if you can see just a bit of their face under the hat?
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[Nancy]

I'm struggling a bit with faceless myself, which is why I didn't vote for it. Some of the books on the Listopia have faces, but no features on the faces. I don't consider that faceless....

I'm going with something that has a full body from behind or covered by an object, I think. If you can see part of the face I wouldn't count it, and I don't think silhouettes count either, because again, it's a face, just with no features. If it's a person from a distance and you can't see their face, I would probably count that.

I'm sure others aren't being as strict with their interpretation as I am though.

[Kate]

A bit disappointed about poetry/free verse not getting in, since I try and read at least one book of poetry a year and that became a 'gimme prompt' for me.

The ones that got in are excellent; I have books for everything on my TBR.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I think the person who suggested the prompt specifically said silhouettes would count. I plan on using anyone who doesn't have their eyes and lips defined, even if their nose shows in their silhouette. It will definitely be defined by the person for their own reading challenge!

[Bec]

Robin P wrote: "Poetry fans, don’t forget you can read poetry for any prompt, as long as the book is long enough.

As far as the degrees of separation prompt, it’s likely that some voters didn’t read any of the e..."
I don't know how to use the spreadsheet for this purpose so just stick to my own for voting purposes.....

[Bec]

I knew the results would be out when I woke up this morning but I held of on looking until I got to work and could do it from my computer rather than my phone...held out for the excitement that much longer.

I'm happy with the results, books about books and faceless person on the cover were in my top votes so I'm excited about these.
2 degrees of separation was one of my tops too so sad this got bottomed.

[Joan]

That's pretty much how I voted so I'm happy with it.

[Beth]

Pretty happy with these results; I voted for 2 of the 3. Body of water in the title is a bit trickier than I expected though. I only found 1 in my tbr and I plan on reading that for this year's challenge so I will have do some more searching.

[Alicia]

Yay Nancy! A book about books finally got in! I’m so happy!

Didn’t vote either way for the other two tops, but happy with them as well.

[Michelle]

Ok, this is my first time being part of the process. Does this mean that the top 3 vote getters will all be part of the final 52 prompts?

[Shannon]

I’m really happy with this selection.

[Bec]

Michelle wrote: "Ok, this is my first time being part of the process. Does this mean that the top 3 vote getters will all be part of the final 52 prompts?"

Yes that is correct. And the bottom ones are out and can't be submitted again. But any other prompt from the poll can be submitted again in a future poll.

[Jillian]

Michelle wrote: "Ok, this is my first time being part of the process. Does this mean that the top 3 vote getters will all be part of the final 52 prompts?"

That is correct. We now have 4/52 prompts selected.

Each poll varies with how many prompts are in the top, generally 1-3 prompts make it each poll.

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Michelle wrote: "Ok, this is my first time being part of the process. Does this mean that the top 3 vote getters will all be part of the final 52 prompts?"

Yes, that's correct. The number that get enough votes varies. Sometimes it is only 1, sometimes more.

[Ellie]

Nancy wrote: "I'm struggling a bit with faceless myself, which is why I didn't vote for it. Some of the books on the Listopia have faces, but no features on the faces. I don't consider that faceless..."

For me if I draw a round blob on a body and don't put features on, that's faceless. I do think silhouettes can count, think of a sentence in a story where a faceless figure looms over the victim...it's not because they literally don't have a face, you just can't see it. It's a bit different for silhouettes that define facial features, sure. I tried not to include those in my examples.

[Conny]

Unfortunately, my degrees of separation prompt ended up in the bottom again and that's it for it, then :( :( I really thought the discussions looked promising, but as Robin has pointed out, I think many people only vote and don't bother reading the threads, and they would have down voted a prompt they don't know how to fulfill (not knowing about the thread etc.).

I hope the genealogy prompt gets resubmitted. The ones that made it are OK for me but not particularly interesting.

[Ira]

To bad I missed the voting. I’m on vacation in Greece and I don’t check the internett to often. Never mind I will get the next vite. Overall I am happy with the first results. Thes look interesting. I will see what Books fit Wien I get home…

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Conny wrote: "Unfortunately, my degrees of separation prompt ended up in the bottom again and that's it for it, then :( :( I really thought the discussions looked promising, but as Robin has pointed out, I think..."

It's discouraging when a prompt you spent time developing gets thrown out! But you got a lot of interest here and we even started a thread about it, which can always be used in the future. Your idea is original, which is a big plus. After a few years of doing various challenges, I see similar ones come up a lot and this was different. (Of course, some people see different and reject it!)

[Trish, Annular Mod]

Mandy wrote: "i'm still hoping the rabbit makes an appearance. and wizard of oz."

I will admit, I downvoted the Oz prompt because I've had a year of it from another challenge I do (https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...), which chooses annual "bonus" themes. This year it was Wizard of Oz characters (and their equivalents - like lion was courage/cowardice; scarecrow was brains/thought/neuroscience). As the "bonus" themes have a habit of dictating a good 20% of the prompts each season, I'm afraid I could happily not see another Wizard of Oz prompt for at least three years!