My chief complaint about the whole business at this point is the dismal ratio between participation in complaining (about the categories, individual book selections, even polling and selection procedures) versus actual participation in reading and contributing to end of period discussions.
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Originally Posted by issybird
Does Jon ever participate? Or does he just like being a gadfly?
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In the time I have been participating no. That is his participation has been limited to complaining.
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Originally Posted by Nyssa
Can we put it to a vote?
Something along the lines of "Should we replace the second 'Classic' with another genre?":
No. I like it the way it is.
Yes. I would like to have Science - Non Fiction instead
Yes. I would like to have Historical Romance instead
etc.
etc.
Yes. I will explain in the comments
That way we can see where are more active members stand, and we have a better chance of choosing whether to participate or not.
I, personally, agree with Jon in that I do not like having 2 classics in the year. I have learned that it is not my genre of choice. I've already said I would support a 2nd Non-Fiction month with a specified sub-genre. However, I am sure there are other genres I have yet to consider.
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Regarding a poll, should a change only require a majority of aggregate yes votes (i.e. summation of all yes alternates > no)? Or should the yes votes for the new selected category be required to exceed the no votes?
Left to general popular preferences, as judged for instance from the
Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading? thread we would likely have at least ten to eleven months of Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Crime/Mystery, and one month of everything else. Frankly, at least for me, that would pretty much end my participation. And I am not sure it would that much increase discussion participation by others who at present do not do so.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I do participate. But because I've mentioned that we have two classics when we have enough trouble with just one of them. The problem is that classic way way too broad a classification. And to narrow it down to just a small subset is limiting what we are allowed to nominate. What's wrong with a modern classic where the book is still in print and the author still alive? A modern classic doesn't have to be old and in the public domain with the author being dead.
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Sigh. I'm not willing to restart the discussion of there being no such thing as a modern (recent) “classic.”
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
If we change December to something else, we won't have to have this issue crop up yet again. How about a free-for-all where the nominations can be any category as long as the nomination was a book voted on that lost in the past 11 months?
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You mean of we change December to something other than classics you will no longer complain about anything? And please check out the current category for January:
Current list for year.