Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5082922-20131103042759/@comment-5082922-20131104001048

Response to Kekai:

1 I am glad you liked the general idea. Though, as I mentioned with Dustin, I really didn't find the nommination round very time consuming nor stressful compared to the Finalist round which made me uncomfortable. You mention that it's already November, and TOTM for October has just been decided, but this did also go on before the voting was public. Which is why I am not sure deadlines will do much good. It wasn't as much it going "TOTM going over time", it was rather "TOTM going at the time as it usually goes". Where I do agree, we need to get it back on track, though, I am not exactly sure if deadlines are needed, as TOTM was already late, even before it was public. Maybe all needed would be to nomminate two tributes this time around so that the TOTM may commend at an earlier stage? Of course, deadlines wouldn't hurt (following this up in my response to question 3).

2 I agree with you on this, next time the rules should probably be more inforced on how much reasoning we require on nomminating/voting for tributes. Do you have anny possible way we could make it less biased? Or do you believe enforcement of the "reasoning-rule" would be enough?

3 Why thank you, and you're completely right. I actually felt kinda uncomfortable judging the thing as the only person, which is why I would like more than one judge too. Though this is where I come back to question 1. The thing that seemed most tideous to me was seeking out people for opinions, waiting for them to come online and we both have time. To have more than one judge, we might have to pay the price for that in time, which is one of the other issues.

4 Pretty much the same as what Dustin said, I felt quite alright with the number of nomminations, I really didn't think that was what slowed me down (what slowed that process was a poorly informed exchange student called Anna who was not informed that she was going on a camp for the weekend where she had planned to end the nomminations).

5 Same as question 2, do you believe that enforced rules onr reasoning would be enough or would you have better idea?

6 Again, the same as Dustin, I am not sure if we will have enough tributes without it and I don't see why not. If the tribute is bad, they can't make it past the round of nommination, and I am afraid we might lack tributes if we do not let people nomminate their own. Another point to this is that there's -sadly- quite a lot of tributes which are liked because they're famous, not because of their actual content. A user may have a kick-butt tribute which is super awesome, yet no one has seen them within a games and so, no one nomminates them.

Response to Rule 2: We could either do what Dustin suggested and have the admins quickly choose November TOTM (though chances are that might take time as well considering how long it has taken to get us all on one chat in the past) or should we nomminate two next rounds of Public TOTM, which puts us before scheduel, though sadly takes away a bit of the honor since there's two victors of almost the same title?