Thanks for this sun surfer. I think it's sounding good and in particular I really like the idea of bonus votes for regular participants. As long as that isn't too difficult and time-consuming for you to do manually, then I think it could be an excellent solution to problems we have talked about previously.
I would like to make a couple of suggestions, to see what you and other members think. Here goes:
1. The six non-rotating months. When you list the various topics we have had, it should probably give us enough to choose from. Is it feasible to ask if members have suggestions for any other topic? (I can't think of anything at the moment, but others might.)
2. The rotating months. Now we have pretty well all had a go, and with our numbers currently down, should we consider fewer rotating months (e.g. four rather than six in a year) and consequently more set topics? This would take the pressure off the smaller number of participants to "step up to the plate".
3. Another option would be to stay with the six and six split (which has certainly worked well to date) and agree to take our turns in the same order as we did last time around. From memory, sun surfer went first, I went second, and I can't remember the order after that, but we could easily look it up. That would then take the pressure off sun surfer calling for a volunteer each time - it would just be a case of saying, okay Bookpossum (or whoever), it's your turn next month, and if we were listed in the programme, we would all have plenty of notice to think about our nominations.
4. Time Period and Region suggestions. If these two get up, I think that's as good a solution as any in the case of a tie. As you say sun surfer, it then lets you have a vote as well, which I think is only fair.
So in summary, good suggestions sun surfer and I hope my suggestions in turn don't add unnecessary complications. If they do, everyone will no doubt feel free to ignore them!
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