BOTM Change
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Re: BOTM Change
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Yes, I was just about to say that too.gali wrote:May I also suggest that the offered books will be a stand alone and not part of a series?
-- 02 May 2014 11:50 am --
With these new rules, I think it might be a good time for me to consider an improved way of nominating and voting for books. Basically, I'm thinking of writing some quick software that will automatically take users nominations and automatically run the vote. It might help do things like make sure that votes aren't late as a result of me missing deadlines and that previous books don't get nominated again.
Right now, I believe I have it set that new members, those with less than 10 posts, cannot vote at all and can't nominate books. With the updates I was also tossing around the idea of making that a little more sophisticated. Like (1) basing it off of previous participation in the actual BOTM discussions, (2) having a higher requirement to make nominations than to merely vote between the nominations, (3) maybe making the votes weighted so that users with higher post counts essentially get more votes, and this could be based on post activity only in the BOTM forums as opposed to sitewide. Any feedback on these ideas is appreciated.
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Good ideas.Scott wrote:Yes, I was just about to say that too.gali wrote:May I also suggest that the offered books will be a stand alone and not part of a series?
-- 02 May 2014 11:50 am --
With these new rules, I think it might be a good time for me to consider an improved way of nominating and voting for books. Basically, I'm thinking of writing some quick software that will automatically take users nominations and automatically run the vote. It might help do things like make sure that votes aren't late as a result of me missing deadlines and that previous books don't get nominated again.
Right now, I believe I have it set that new members, those with less than 10 posts, cannot vote at all and can't nominate books. With the updates I was also tossing around the idea of making that a little more sophisticated. Like (1) basing it off of previous participation in the actual BOTM discussions, (2) having a higher requirement to make nominations than to merely vote between the nominations, (3) maybe making the votes weighted so that users with higher post counts essentially get more votes, and this could be based on post activity only in the BOTM forums as opposed to sitewide. Any feedback on these ideas is appreciated.
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Also, I like the idea not having books that are made into movies as BOTM. I almost never see the movie as its generally a disappointment.
In the case of Divergent, and actually the Bone Season and Splintered, I rather like the idea of NOT having a series book as BOTM, 1- I don't want to read yet another series and 2- I am going to be constantly referring to Divergent as I can't remember what happened in which book now and I don't want to give spoilers to those who haven't read all 3 yet.
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I'm sure you've also noticed I added the Young Adult genre to the specific books discussions section.
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