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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I'll throw in my two-pennyworth as an occasional participant.
I rarely notice when nominations open, or voting starts. Because they start in new threads that I'm not subscribed to. And no-one posts any notices to the book club threads (like this one) which I am subscribed to. I could only notice them if I (a) remembered when they were going to happen and (b) then remembered to manually check the Book Club forum.
If you want more participants in the book clubs, make use of a central book club thread to post announcements and links to the relevant new threads.
It might even be worth asking to use the MobileRead banner announcements system.
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Great suggestions there. I subscribe to the forum as a whole to get notifications for new threads (in the control panel only, no email) rather than threads but I didn't even realize there was a new "banner announcement system" which would be really nice to be able to use.
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
As for nominations: Since only one vote is possible in the voting stage, I'd recommend saying that people are limited to one nomination in the nominations threads, with two seconding votes. That's nice and simple.
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As a clarification, you can vote for as many items as you want during voting, it is multiple choice. I know I normally vote for 3-4 at least in inital voting.
For nominations, in practice almost everyone only makes a single nomination in a month with a some people only seconding or making 2+ nominations (the average is 0.9 nominations per nominator), so I don't see any real need to limit the number of nominations to 1. It varies who is nominating each month. Only 3 regulars have nominated something every month they have participated.