POLL: Preliminary Gauging of Interest for Potential New Series Discussion

[Candiss]

Hi everyone,

(Wow, that thread title just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? ;) )

As you probably know, the discussion of the WARS OF LIGHT AND SHADOW series by Janny Wurts is coming to a close. (The discussions are still active, but the “official readings” have wound down.) Stefan brought up the topic of “What next?”, so we thought we’d bring the idea to the group to try to gauge general interest.

So, the question is: Would you be interested in beginning a new group series read some time in the near future?

Please keep in mind that this is NOT a call for series nominations, nor are we presently opening a dialogue here regarding series read format or any other particulars. We just want to gather a preliminary idea of how much basic interest there is within the group for a series read in general. The specifics – nominations and voting, discussion and debate of the pros & cons of various series as group reads, discussion format, schedule, and the like – will come later, assuming there is enough interest in doing another series read to even broach those topics. Let’s establish base-line interest first so we don’t confuse the issue, please.

So, a simple poll is up on the group polls page here: "Would you be interested in starting a new group series discussion some time in the near future?" - Yes / No. The poll will stay open for a couple of full weeks, until midnight Monday, May 16th, to give everyone a chance to think it over and vote. Please feel free to comment in more detail in the poll thread as to why you would or wouldn't be interested, but keep in mind that this is intended to gather very preliminary data, not to get down to the nitty gritty. (Please consider this locked post as merely an announcement. I don’t want comments to be split between this thread and the poll thread or for people to never make it to the poll proper.)

Thanks!

P.S. I might send a group broadcast a couple of days before the poll ends, especially if there aren't very many votes, just so that everyone who has interest one way or the other will know that the poll exists. But for now, I'm just going to let the poll and thread be so as to avoid spamming the group too much today!