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sun surfer · 06-23-2016, 02:05 PM

Help us choose the categories that the MR Literary Club will use to alternate for our July 2016-June 2017 cycle!

Nominations will be open for three days. You may nominate up to two categories. They may be previous categories, altered categories or brand new categories. I do ask that if you're nominating a new or altered category, please keep it simple with just a title and no special rules to follow; we already have a few previous category possibilities with special rules and that's enough.

To nominate a category, simply post your nomination. All nominees will move forward to the vote with no need for support from others.

For reference, we have 14 categories that have been used by us in the past: Biography & Memoirs, Contemporary, Highly Challenging, Journey around the World, Lottery, Non-Fiction, Obscure, Open, Plays, Poetry, Region, Rotating, Short and Time Period. You can peruse past categories by month here. Rotating and Lottery are ineligible to be nominated.

Once nominations are complete, the vote will begin and also occur in this thread. The vote will be open for four days. I will make a post to open voting and the vote will close exactly four days from that post. Even if the final tally doesn't occur immediately after voting closes, no votes made after that time will count.

Votes will be made by post. Each person will have a number of votes to cast equal to the number of nominees minus one, which will be specified when the vote begins. You may give each nominee one or two (or no) votes. You may vote all at once in one post or vote in separate posts at different times, so long as you have more votes remaining to cast. You may use any number of your possible votes up to the maximum. Any extraneous votes per person (past their maximum or more than two for one nominee) simply won't count. Votes cannot be changed once they are cast. Since this is a new process, any questions feel free to ask at any time.

Half of the next cycle will be devoted to rotating selections from our members, leaving six months of other categories that we are deciding on, and as such there will be six winners. In the event of a tie, there will be a one-day run-off vote, also in this thread. If the run-off also ends in a tie, then we will combine the tied categories and be done with it.

So, what categories will we be reading from in the next year? The floor is now open!

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The nominees through post 4-

Non-Fiction
Biographies & Memoirs
Open
Contemporary
Region
Time Period

06-23-2016, 02:05 PM	#1
sun surfer languorous autodidact ✦ Posts: 4,235 Karma: 44637926 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: smiling with the rising sun Device: onyx boox poke 2 colour, kindle voyage	The MR Literary Club 2016-2017 Categories Nominations & Vote Help us choose the categories that the MR Literary Club will use to alternate for our July 2016-June 2017 cycle! Nominations will be open for three days. You may nominate up to two categories. They may be previous categories, altered categories or brand new categories. I do ask that if you're nominating a new or altered category, please keep it simple with just a title and no special rules to follow; we already have a few previous category possibilities with special rules and that's enough. To nominate a category, simply post your nomination. All nominees will move forward to the vote with no need for support from others. For reference, we have 14 categories that have been used by us in the past: Biography & Memoirs, Contemporary, Highly Challenging, Journey around the World, Lottery, Non-Fiction, Obscure, Open, Plays, Poetry, Region, Rotating, Short and Time Period. You can peruse past categories by month here. Rotating and Lottery are ineligible to be nominated. Once nominations are complete, the vote will begin and also occur in this thread. The vote will be open for four days. I will make a post to open voting and the vote will close exactly four days from that post. Even if the final tally doesn't occur immediately after voting closes, no votes made after that time will count. Votes will be made by post. Each person will have a number of votes to cast equal to the number of nominees minus one, which will be specified when the vote begins. You may give each nominee one or two (or no) votes. You may vote all at once in one post or vote in separate posts at different times, so long as you have more votes remaining to cast. You may use any number of your possible votes up to the maximum. Any extraneous votes per person (past their maximum or more than two for one nominee) simply won't count. Votes cannot be changed once they are cast. Since this is a new process, any questions feel free to ask at any time. Half of the next cycle will be devoted to rotating selections from our members, leaving six months of other categories that we are deciding on, and as such there will be six winners. In the event of a tie, there will be a one-day run-off vote, also in this thread. If the run-off also ends in a tie, then we will combine the tied categories and be done with it. So, what categories will we be reading from in the next year? The floor is now open! * The nominees through post 4- Non-Fiction Biographies & Memoirs Open Contemporary Region Time Period Last edited by sun surfer; 06-26-2016 at 08:38 AM.