[2025] Poll 16 Voting - Close Calls

[Pamela, Arciform Mod]

Am I lame for planning to read Sandwich if SANDWICHES makes it?

[Shelley]

Pamela wrote: "Am I lame for planning to read Sandwich if SANDWICHES makes it?"

That seems like a necessity.

[Tracy]

On my list too!

[NancyJ]

Pamela wrote: "Am I lame for planning to read Sandwich if SANDWICHES makes it?"

Haha, maybe that’s what it will take for me, I just don’t feel great about my options. I think my brain will be more playful when I get more sleep. I”ll wait to vote.

I’m taking care of my mom, and I swear she’s like Benjamin Button. She is now in her terrible two’s. She’s very funny, and happier than she’s been in a long time, but she’s a real handful. She used to look like Elizabeth Taylor, and now she’s like Edith Ann from Laugh-in. If anyone is old enough to remember that.

[Tracy]

NancyJ wrote: "Pamela wrote: "Am I lame for planning to read Sandwich if SANDWICHES makes it?"

Haha, maybe that’s what it will take for me, I just don’t feel great about my options. I think my b..."

Sorry you're having a hard time with Mom. At least she's in a happy stage :)

I just mentioned Edith Ann a couple of nights ago — but in reference to my feet not touching the ground on a lot of sofas.

[NancyJ]

Tracy wrote: "NancyJ wrote: "Pamela wrote: "Am I lame for planning to read Sandwich if SANDWICHES makes it?"

Haha, maybe that’s what it will take for me, I just don’t feel great about my option..."

Haha

[Irene]

I've been out of the loop but super happy that one of the prompts I suggested made it into this close calls poll! I went 4 up, 4 down but this is a great group of prompts.

[Jennifer W]

I could have easily voted all ups, but I also took Emily's suggestion to heart and went 4 up and 4 down.
But it got me thinking, have we ever done a poll where people *have* to vote either up or down for *every* suggestion? I wonder what that would do to the results...?? It just tickles my little data-driven brain. But that brain is also tired at the moment, so I think it will go take a snooze (this whole pondering may just seem ridiculous once I'm better rested!).

[Trish, Annular Mod]

Good list!

I went five up, three down.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

A few years ago (before I was mod, so maybe more than a few lol), we had a 4 up 4 down voting style - as in, you could have a max of 4 up votes and a max of 4 downvotes. We moved to having 8 total votes at some point and never looked back.

We have never had more than that, though, so I guess the idea you're saying is like... 15 votes, and you must up or down every prompt?

[Dixie]

Jennifer W wrote: "I could have easily voted all ups, but I also took Emily's suggestion to heart and went 4 up and 4 down.
But it got me thinking, have we ever done a poll where people *have* to vote either up or do..."

Ooh, that's a fun idea.

[NancyJ]

Emily, I was about to vote but I can’t get the right profile link. Instead of my name, it says Nav_profile. I wanted to let you know in case you get more than one like this. It shows a number too, but I don’t recognize it (not that I ever paid attention).

I’ll try again later. If it’s still doing it I’ll type my name.
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ETA. I tried again and it worked this time.

[Jennifer W]

Yes, exactly, Emily. I was pondering what that would do to the results. It might not actually do much, I don't know. I like the way now that there's room to be "meh" to some prompts, and those prompts would probably still be middle of the road with some people up voting them and a nearly equal number downvoting them.

[Jillian]

Jennifer, I think people probably won’t use all their votes if they only could up/down vote.

[NancyJ]

Sometimes I like my neutral prompts almost as much as my favorites, and I end up feeling pretty good when they get in. So I really like it this way. If it wasn’t for an Emily’s advice I might have given all upvotes this week.

[Ciara]

I did my best to treat this like a regular poll. I upvoted two & downvoted six. Which wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be because I wasn't that stoked on a couple of these the first time around (Audie winners, inspired by a casino). I'm trying to do my part to create some losers, haha!

[Tracy]

5 UP and 3 DOWN. I think I originally had 4/4, and the only thing I can see that was possibly a Down originally is now an Up, skipping neutral all together. I try to vote based on the "quality" of the prompt, but sometimes a book on my TBR that I want to read will sway me. I have to imagine that's what happened this time.

[Jennifer W]

I wasn't suggesting we do it, it was more of a random thought that occurred to my tired brain. :)

[Bec]

I ended up with 3 up and 5 down. I upvoted quarter of a century - I read a lot of Advance reader copy books (ARCs) which are obviously published that year, so would like a chance for another 2025 book to slot in easily :)
I also upvoted blood, sweat and tears and occupaiton in the title, both because I have books on my TBR which fit that I keep putting off and want a push to read them.

[Michelle]

Pamela wrote: "Am I lame for planning to read Sandwich if SANDWICHES makes it?"

Honestly, this is 100% my plan lol

[Nadine in NY]

NancyJ wrote: "Emily, I was about to vote but I can’t get the right profile link. Instead of my name, it says Nav_profile. I wanted to let you know in case you get more than one like this. It shows a number too, ..."



That's been happening to me for the last two weeks. Once it actually appeared correctly with my name, and then it CHANGED to that garbled bit with numbers. I guess GR is making some changes.

The link works, though - it leads to my profile. So I used it.

[Kim]

Michelle wrote: "Pamela wrote: "Am I lame for planning to read Sandwich if SANDWICHES makes it?"

Honestly, this is 100% my plan lol"

Mine, too!

[Lin]

After all the Sandwich comments I had to look it up. It's now on my TBR. I'll join the Sandwich group read :)

[dalex]

Pamela wrote: "Am I lame for planning to read Sandwich if SANDWICHES makes it?"

For me that’s too obvious. I like to interpret prompts as broadly as possible and still be able to make a connection. “It is or it isn’t” prompts, like an author with three names, are kind of boring.

[ilovebakedgoods (Teresa)]

Pamela wrote: "Am I lame for planning to read Sandwich if SANDWICHES makes it?"

Absolutely not lame. Everyone approaches this and similar challenges individually. If anyone else thinks it's lame, well bully for them. They don't have to read it ;)

[Dixie]

Yes! And there's also Reality Sandwiches, Ms Ice Sandwich, and a bunch of other books with Sandwich in the title, for those who want to go full-on Sandwich rather than types or ingredients.

[J]

I could really go for a Reuben.

[Pamela, Arciform Mod]

Lin wrote: "After all the Sandwich comments I had to look it up. It's now on my TBR. I'll join the Sandwich group read :)"

Although I'm hoping the second book for a prompt gets through, for as much as I would like a prompt that gets me reading this, I also want to go creative with it.

[Bec]

The voting period feels like its getting longer and longer - I'm ready for results :P

[Jillian]

Bec, I agree.

I’m ready to know what the full list will be.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

We actually have more votes right now than we have had on any poll so far, and we've only gotten two votes today, so I'm closing it up.