I just realized that it’s a shame that the Discourse polls function doesn’t support the model where you have 10 (or some number greater than 1) votes, and can distribute them across the candidates in multiple or single votes per candidate. (so, if you are particularly passionate about one or two songs, you can put all 10 votes on those candidates).
They have rules on how to “play” them (explicitly stated in the OP of each thread). They are the very definition of thread games.
But…
That is a fantastic tip, thank you.
I have the Thread Games category muted and suddenly there are thread games all over one of my favorite categories. But the tag helps, so I guess it’s not an issue for me, personally.
I dunno. I kind of like the breakneck pace. A random letter poll pops up and you need to scramble to come up with a list of at least a dozen favorite songs, because sure as shootin’ some of them are going to be taken by the time you get to listing them.
Whatever that means. All I can say is, nominations “wind down” awfully fast. Just speaking for myself, half the time, they’ve “wound down” before I see the thread, even if it’s been less than two days since I checked the forum.
Or you could just give a list in advance of which letters will have their threads open on which days.
Not sure why one rule applies to nominations, and another rule applies to voting. Does voting not ‘wind down’?
As a Cafe Society Mod and the only Thread Games mod I decided the music part outweighed the Thread Game part and left them here but added the tag at someone’s suggestion.
No way will that happen. As it is MMM knows not to have too many cluttering up Cafe Society at a time. Making something borderline Cafe stickied is a silly waste of time for the Mods and probably annoying to more posters than would find it helpful. We don’t sticky much.