Interactive poll team

jamesbaldwin wrote: Mila-13 wrote: Lewian wrote: I have changed the rules. No two steps vote.

Mila-13 wrote: Lewian wrote: Given that this is so, I'm rather relaxed about whatever the remaining gang comes up with. There may be new or returning participants or not, but let's listen to music rather than worry too much about marketing and how to appeal to those who currently do not take part. By the way, with fewer participants it's less time consuming anyway. I may have not been precise enough. The point is that quite a few of us, the remaining participants said that this two-stage voting procedure was too time-consuming and I still thinks so. Besides, you can't turn things around in one or two editions. It takes a little time and patience.

After I myself and JD tried out some "personal theories" on how to bring people in again with very limited success, I don't have much confidence left in any advice regarding what will lead to more or fewer participants.

We have lost people for various reasons and the odd one may have dropped out because occasionally things were too complicated and time-consuming, but it seems quite clear now that going easier again won't bring back most of them. Life goes on and people go on to do different things. One reason may simply also be that many have exhausted their list of non-prog artists that are at the same time great and unknown enough that they'd like to present them here, and don't want to nominate their same favourites again and again. I'm always wondering these days what's left on my list, and have repeated a few artists even though I try to avoid that (I'm pretty determined to continue to take part though).

Given that this is so, I'm rather relaxed about whatever the remaining gang comes up with. There may be new or returning participants or not, but let's listen to music rather than worry too much about marketing and how to appeal to those who currently do not take part. By the way, with fewer participants it's less time consuming anyway.

Edited by Lewian - December 15 2022 at 11:13

@Lorenzo
I would like to remind you that time-consuming voting procedures were not popular in the past. As a result the number of participants has decreased significantly. If you want to involve people you should however listen to them. Also it is more likely that more comments will be made with a larger number of participants, meaning the participants can alternate commenting, depending on whether they have time to do so.

Mila-13 wrote: @Lorenzo, Sam has replied to my post in the thread of the previous poll. He said that he's rather busy atm. Otherwise he remains interested in the IA-polls. I would like to take this opportunity to point out that we do not necessarily receive email notifications about new posts in the threads where we are active. There are various technical problems with the PA-website (see above). Maybe we need to find other ways to inform people about the polls, e.g. by pm?

Edited by Mila-13 - November 11 2022 at 01:53

Edited by Mila-13 - November 10 2022 at 03:56

Edited by Mila-13 - November 10 2022 at 02:45

^ What about Sam/Meltdowner? He participated in the last poll. It was great to have him back after quite a while!

Edited by Mila-13 - November 09 2022 at 15:25

Very sorry for the delay, this is a beautiful weekend and probably my last kick at the can to get the property ready for winter. Give me a an hour or two and I'll get something up before I go out today.