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But then I'm an open book already LOL so it'll be boring :P
As I said, though, life does get in the way, and someone may think they've got a week for questions, before something crops up and keeps them busy. The last few interviews stalled out because of that.
Yes, as @Creasy47 said, every time the both of us try to run this it gets no traction fast. I posted the first category, didn't get any comments on it in half a week and when I did the people voting were few and far between. Most members just showed up to say how happy they were to be nominated, etc. and it bogged things down a good bit. There's interest at the start of this process every time, but then once it all kicks off people don't show up to play, so to speak. How we got through it the first time is a great mystery.
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. I hate to do this a third time and come up with the same results, especially since I'm very busy at the moment with a lot of other things, including the Bondathon. @Creasy47 and I want to do this, it's just that it's very hard to get the community as a whole to engage at times. It's difficult, because we all have our own lives and things that take us away, so it's understandably hard to get this going or sustain it once it begins.
It's also awkward when it comes to some categories because I've been in situations where people were upset with me or others for winning one thing or another over them (especially in the biggest Bond Actor Fan categories), and it resulted in bad feelings. It seems to always turn into a bit of a ego hit for some, and leads to hurt feelings, etc.
I don't know. I just don't know.
It's all up to you, Brady. If you feel any interest in firing it up in the coming months, shoot me a PM and let me know and we can try it again. At least if it doesn't pan out once again, we tried.
Fair enough matey !
@Creasy47, that's always my hang up with these things. I don't want to pour time and energy into something that trickles out and loses participants along the way.
The main issue is that it's something that does require a good bit of people to contribute; at least with the Bondathon, a few of us were participating still at the end but it didn't necessarily need dozens of us participating, either. There's no way to even judge interest in it, as people can easily line up to say they'd vote, just to not do it when the time comes.
Would love if we could pull this off again one day, though.
@Creasy47, absolutely. The issue we ran into in a minor case the first time and heavily for the second is that we'd only have a few votes for a category, and those nominations didn't add up to a comprehensive list for people to choose from. Some categories got one or two votes, others none. Can't make much of an awards event out of that.
You also run into the issue of people just voting for the same people over and over instead of voting for other people to expand the nominee base for later selection.
Yes, the nomination and voting always gets confused, though understandably so. It's a strange process for people to nominate someone and then return a month of so later to vote for essentially the same person. Maybe a better way around that can be gotten?
I just don't know how we'd go about that, even if we just cut out the nomination process and headed right to voting. It just wouldn't make a lot of sense.