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Originally Posted by John F
Maybe a sticky thread with a couple of posts describing what the Book Club is, rules, how things are done,...
I used to like the nominating and voting threads (in which I participated) for finding / recommending books, and I wasn't much into discussion. I bowed out when it seemed the club was meant to be more about discussion.
Maybe having a clear statement on what the club "is" would help?
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If there's no discussion, there's no club.
I take your point about the nomination process; the more, the better for the purposes of discovery. But that ends once the nominations close. After that, a vote without participation is just a popularity contest and where's the point in that if there's no follow-through?
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Originally Posted by Dazrin
This is in the introduction material for every nomination thread:
Maybe this needs updated to reflect that we are hoping those who nominate/vote will participate in the discussions? Something else?
As for information in general, each of the nomination and voting threads has an intro about the nomination or voting process and I recently added some general "how things work" information to the Book Club Selections List as well.
I am not opposed to changing that thread to "Book Club Introduction, FAQ, and Selections List" (or something) and adding more detail there if people think that would be helpful. There are already 9 stickied threads and I would prefer to do that instead of asking for a new thread to be stickied. It would probably be a copy/paste from the nominations thread for now unless we want to update that information. |
Tom obviously needs to sign on to any change and I suspect he wants to keep the club open and non-compulsory. I personally would like to
encourage more participation. Quite selfishly, I get tired of discussing books that didn't particularly appeal to me when those who voted for it can't be bothered. But I really have no clue regarding what would make the discussions more enticing. Because what's more fun than talking about books?