Interactive poll team

1 February, Shadowyzard:

Let me ruin the surprise. 

Actually, my current idea is: a song and a cover version of that song. We haven't done something like this, have we? How does the idea sound to you? 

we've done covers already, haven't we? 

can we make a round with just one song (our usual) next time? 

I think I will skip the next poll. It is rather time consuming, and I want some time to make some album reviews. Then I will probably be back for the following poll.

Looks like you are up next, from the previous page:

"1 February, Shadowyzard

15 February Lewian

1 March, Meltdowner

15 March, The Anders

29 March, Snicolette

12 April, Cristi

26 March, TCaT

10 May, mathman0806" (Lorenzo).

Hope I did a decent job in my turn. Actually, I wasn't very happy with the two nominations format either. That's why I came up with the "one original and one cover" concept. Otherwise, it wasn't serving a meaningful purpose methinks. 

I am again late to vote, sorry. I'll do it today; and I'm looking forward to Lewian's turn. The '80s? Even if the '80s turns out to be a niche decade, I'll always be all for it. 

Edited by Shadowyzard - February 15 2021 at 05:25

^ I did that both because two nomination thing was becoming like a "nouveau tradition" and also the cover idea was complementary per se. Your "duos of contrast" was also a good idea. But other than that, I wasn't very impressed by the 2 song nomination cooncept.

Not a big deal, anyway. 

@Greg,  I agree with what you are saying. A week goes fast and there needs to be time to listen, but 14 days+ seems too long. It depends on the poll. Should goes longer when it's open to having alternates and discussion, but if it's like in the past where we nominate one song each and then vote, I think a week to 10 days is right.

^ I think that should rather depend on the OP and how it's being done, yes, scheduling can be an issue, but maybe we can find ways to be more flexible. Already some have gone over time, and some have been started late, but not so much the other way around.

^^ Thanks Geo. I see part of the problem as scheduling, since things have been pre-planned -- it's easier to remember, well, it's once every week or two weeks on a Monday. But I don't think that should be hard to organise. Hopefully there can be some flexibility. Some would work best at seven, some at nine, some at 14 (well 14 days is too long per my tastes generally, part of why it was extended once before was because of the holidays, which made sense). It really does depend on the approach and it was the alternates (an idea I really like, by the way, and don't want to see gone, but I don't want to see those every time either) as you say that needed more time. A week just to make nominations seems a very long time to me, and it has gone over that to give more people a chance before. It's like the good parties where the host pulls out the baseball bat (or maybe I have my own ideas of what makes successful dinner party, no wonder they never come back. ;) I'm of that sad, formal dinner party stage of life (not now, of course), and god, I miss that. Its dragging, and there does come a point if I've had the chance to get ahead of the curve that I just want the next one up. Days of inactivity in the topics is a sign that it's going on too long for me. If activity is quite consistent people are having fun, and the host is hopefully still on active duty passing out the hors d’oeuvres, well, maybe extend it a bit, but like they say in show biz, always leave them wanting more.

On another note, since this has come up before. Sometimes the next poll has been delayed to give some people more time to vote. I have no issue with people still posting to an older one when a new one has been started.

I think in most cases a few days to nominate might be ample time instead of a whole week. I would love to see a faster turn around also to have as much variety as possible. People wait many months for their chance (or next chance) now. I don't think it matters if only ten nominate one round, and maybe some others nominate in the next.

Sorry, I ramble. I like the idea of another Prog poll. I do like having the theme, but of course the theme can be there is no theme and I also like that, and part of what I like about the music is just how eclectic the music is. I love that it gets me listening to music that I wouldn't hear or think I'd be interested in otherwise.

And while I like surprise, of course an advantage of saying the theme in advance is that people can pre-plan their choices (those who are paying attention to this topic at least).


Edited by Logan - February 15 2021 at 08:21