sunsurfer,
first of all I'd like to thank you again for all the time and effort you are devoting and have been devoting to this book club, and kept us going: THANK YOU!
As for your ideas, I think I am up for most of them, with some comments:
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Thread titles will no longer include "The MR Literary Club" ; OK
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Lottery Refresh: open mind on this one. I see the problems you mention, but I am not sure that concentrating it in one month would make a difference. One alternative could be that all members are included in the draw by default, and can opt out if they wish from the lottery month. Now how to know who all
members are? It could be all those who nominated in the previous months (I think there may be noise in voting), or perhaps we could all "sign up" in this thread, but it may be intimidating for new members to put them forward - those who nominated in the previous month seems to me easier to implement, and we can also provide a reminder in the July nomination thread that if you want to opt out from the lottery, this is the time to do so.
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Slight Categories Refresh : OK, though I would swap July and August, as I have more time in August to go for a Highly challenging read, and I suspect this may be the case for other people too, but if I am in a minority then no problem.
Agree with all the rest of your proposals
