Interactive poll team - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Raff wrote:

First of all, best wishes to Özgür for everything. I hope things will get better in your country one day. Here in the US it's so bad that these days I find reading the Italian news soothing and comforting.

Anyway, I am sorry about dropping out of things once again, but these days I don't find this forum a pleasant place any longer. I think I need to take a long break from things, hoping that one day the hordes of trolls that seem to have taken over will disappear.

Thanks a lot Raffaella. You're one of the strongest members of this forum, for me. I hope you'll recharge your movitavion and come back again. All in all, we all spend our free time to have fun. All I can wish is either the forum becomes a good gathering for you again, or your will to contribute again is renewed sometime.

I wish you and all the Americans a good future. My country's and yours' near future seems bleak, unfortunately. Let's cross our fingers and hope for a miracle. Wink

Welcome addition to the team, The Anders!

"Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp

So, Lewian will open his new poll tomorrow.
Is it right Christian?

I am waiting for the answer of Meltdowner for the week after.

Welcome to you, The Anders.

Then we will decide when you will open your poll.

Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion.

^ Fantastic.

Duos for fave acts

Meltdowner wrote:

jamesbaldwin wrote:

Meltdowner wrote:

^ I thought Lewian was next, and I very much like his poll theme ;)

And you after Lewian? Ok?

Fine by me.

Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion.

jamesbaldwin wrote:

Dear friends, I would make a new calendar...

Anyway, we could change this order if (Raff, Micky) someone_else, suitkees, The Anders, dr wu23, prophesy disaster wanted to join the Interactive poll team.

Thanks for thinking about me, but for the moment I prefer to cowardly watch on from the sidelines and snub at your suggestions... Smile

And since "for the moment" already brings us to the end of November, let's see then if I might reconsider joining... Anyways, I very much enjoy participating in these polls!

The razamataz is a pain in the bum

Sorry if this sounds completely stupid, but what exactly are the interactive polls?

"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence" - Robert Fripp
"I am an anti-Christ" - Johnny Rotten

Sorry Lorenzo, I somehow have the resolution to spoil your timetable and stretch this over 11 days until the end of the weekend then. One week for a poll has not been enough for me for some time, and it looks like several others have the same impression.

@Father Christmas: New participants are always welcome. The theme starting to day is "Welcome to the Machines", electronic, not on PA, you can suggest songs and finally pick one for going into the poll, and then we have a poll with three votes for everyone out of the tracks that we all nominated.

@The Anders

@Lewian

@Dear friends

As I have already written, at the beginning I did not think we would do a poll every week, I did not imagine this success, and I thought it was already a lot that we participated in 15 with 15 songs, in fact my first poll had only 15 songs: multiple nominations are not expected.

Then I opened this thread just to discuss how often to open a poll, and many (not me) have spoken out to do them every week, so we began to open them every week.

And Micky proposed to have thematic polls with multiple nominations. In fact, I was the first to make two nominations, if I remember correctly, saying that the second was out of competition, and from that moment Micky thought to propose more songs: three, four nominations.

For me it is a long job to listen to three-four nominations multiplied by 15, that is 45 songs, or 50 or 60.

I was amazed at the enthusiasm of many in wanting to open a poll every week and showcase fifty songs, in fact this summer I couldn't keep up with the rhythm and I barely had time to listen to all the songs. I was pleased with this enthusiasm but honestly I thought we couldn't keep up with this rhythm for long.

So, we can decide to make a poll lasting two weeks. How about it?

And in my opinion, we could do two or three nominations, or just one: I would leave the freedom to decide to who opens the poll.

Edited by jamesbaldwin - September 29 2020 at 17:43

Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion.

I'm good with whatever everyone else wants to do. 2-week polls probably do make better sense though. I think we should keep the entries down to 3 maximum at the discretion of the one running the poll at the time. Themes or no themes, I can swing either way Confused