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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes
Participation and membership do change, I think that's normal and healthy. The unfortunate trend I do see in the bookclub is a decrease in participation. Only 23 voters for romance this year? It's the most popular genre out there and previous years had 104, 89, 48, 63, and 27 voters. that is a drop and a significant one. I'm back from a challenge hiatus for the last couple of years and I'll continue challenging the club to evolve and nominate and hopefully read authors we haven't touched.
For the record, I would remove all age-based options from the categories. There would be no Classics, but there would also be no Modern or Contemporary as well. I would keep PCML. It is a large part of MobileRead and we should celebrate that.
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WT Sharpe has started a thread about changing categories for 2016 which I really hope goes forward. As you noted, the year over year number of votes has been dropping and not just for Romance, which I know is popular overall but not necessarily at MR judging by the "What are you reading" thread. I know I don't care for Romance and haven't voted although I do follow the threads. Hopefully a new set of categories will help bring in a few more people.
I do wonder how many people are lurking and not participating vocally. I know I don't vote if I don't think I will read a selection and don't always comment even if I do depending on how it goes.