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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
What say we go this route?
• January is Second Chance.
• July is a Free-for-All: You nay nominate anything in any category.
• For the remaining 10 months, we nominate categories. At the end of two weeks or 30 categories, whichever comes first, we vote.
• For simplicity's sake, I'll assign the winners to their months afterward.
If everyone's happy with that, we can discuss exactly how the nominations would work. I was thinking of doing it like we do in the monthly nominations thread—with a second and third—but with 6 or more votes each instead of three.
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I love the simplicity. I like the cohesion but I want to offer an alternative to one part.
The last few years, even after democratic votes, people seem to not be thrilled with the categories. We've ended up with an odd mix and some strange omissions. Using your plan we could have the nominations and poll and then only take the top five as "certain". Then you use your judgment to round out the list, not with your favourites, but with what you think would make a well-rounded and good set of categories based on the five already chosen. I know this
sounds partially undemocratic but completely democratic vote have led us to very mediocre results that it seems like hardly anyone has really liked as a whole.
My alternative suggestion is to keep the rest of your plan but instead of individual category nominations for the other ten months, people nominate an entire slate of categories, and the vote would be on the slate. No seconds or thirds needed but people should try to keep all members in mind when making their slates and they would need to nominate a full set slate (no "we'll have more votes for this or that" in any of the slates, just a complete set of categories). This would ensure that we'd end up with some sort of cohesive set of categories but with a majority vote still deciding it all.
Whatever you do, please don't put this pre-stuff up to a vote!
After you hear what we think and take our thoughts into consideration, I'd much prefer if you just decide yourself how we're to go about choosing the categories.
