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Like last year and the year before, we are going to use private message voting.
It is hoped that this will encourage participants to vote for options that they actually want to see run in 2023 rather than just options that they see as doing well in a publicly visible poll. With this in mind, I would request that you do not use this thread to list which options you have voted for. Once voting has closed, I will publish a list of who voted for which options, which can then be discussed if the interest is there to do so.
Private message voting also gives us the ability to allow power voting (giving multiple points to certain options), which cannot be done with an open poll. When selecting the nine options that you would like to make it into next year's schedule, you will be able to award:
- 3 points to one option;
- 2 points to three options; and
- 1 point to remaining five options.
You do not have to vote for nine options - you can vote for less. Please make it clear which options you want to power vote. Your ballot might look like:
Once I have collected an adequate sample size of ballots, I will begin posting regular anonymous updates of which options are performing best.EXAMPLE ONLY wrote:
Criterion & MoC - 3
Razzie Nominees - 2
Banned Films - 2
Long Films -2
Sol's Top 850 - 1
Sport Films - 1
1910s - 1
1920s - 1
1990s - 1
Your name will be listed as a "thanks for voting" in the anonymous update so that you can be sure that I have included your vote.
What the anonymous updates will look like:
EXAMPLE ONLY
Thanks to the following 5 voters!
icm-checkwhore
new-user
sol
user1
user-2
Best performing options so far:
Repeat 2022 Challenge Idea
Repeat Older Challenge Idea
Repeat Older Challenge Idea
Brand New Challenge Idea
Repeat 2022 Challenge Idea
Brand New Challenge Idea
Repeat Older Challenge Idea
etc
icm-checkwhore
new-user
sol
user1
user-2
Best performing options so far:
Repeat 2022 Challenge Idea
Repeat Older Challenge Idea
Repeat Older Challenge Idea
Brand New Challenge Idea
Repeat 2022 Challenge Idea
Brand New Challenge Idea
Repeat Older Challenge Idea
etc
DEADLINE FOR VOTING: Thursday October 6 @ 11:59pm GMT (Friday 7:59am AWST)
It is possible that I might not be awake at 7:59am, so I will accept ballots until I check the forum, but I suggest not waiting until the last minute.
So, without further ado:
Please send me a private message with up to 9 of these options that you would like to see run as an Official Challenge in 2023:
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
2000s
Academy Award nominees
Biography
Comic & Graphic Novel Adaptations
Concert Films
Critics Lists
Cult/Grindhouse
Degrees of Separation
Directed by Actors
Doubling the Canon iCM List
Festival Winners
Films with frontal nudity
Forum Lists
Holiday Films
ICMForum's Top 1001 Favourite Films
ICMForum's Year by Year Polls (Top 25s)
In Competition at Cannes
LGBTIQ+
Lists That Should Be Official
Low IMDb Rating
Martial Arts
Maximalist Cinema
Miniseries
Mr. Skin Hall of Fame
Multiple Versions of the same story
Neo-Noir
New Releases
One Film from Each iCM List
One Film from Each Year
One Film per Language
Personal Top Lists
Religion, Cults & Sorcery
Rest in Peace (films from the recently departed)
Run the Actor
Run the Director
Run the Film Franchise
Run the Writer
Short Films
Sight and Sound Lists
Submissions for the Foreign Language Film Oscar
Television Series
Tim Dirks' History of Sex in Cinema
Travel the United States of America
Unofficial
Weird Movie Lists
Whodunit Films
Note: These options will be automatically placed into the 2023 schedule without being voted on: Directed by Women, Documentary, Film Noir, Horror, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Silent Era, Under 400 Checks, Western, 1000<400, DTC-Nominees, Travel the World, Animation, Musical, War, Crime.
so thanks for being the only person to volunteer.
