The Rainbow Awards: Phases and Timeline
Oct. 4th, 2009 12:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reviews_and_ramblingsSince there are so many people that are voting and filling up the categories, I decided to leave more time to people to do so. So here are the timeline, read carefully:
First Phase: Open poll with multiple options (check boxes) from Friday October 2 to Friday (afternoon) October 16. Multiple options (check boxes) means that you can vote more books inside the same Category/Subcategory (example, you can vote 3 books in the Gay Comedy Category and 2 books in the Lesbian Comedy Category, total 5 books in the Comedy Category). You are not forced to vote all the Category/Subcategory (example, you can vote 1 books in the Lesbian Comedy Category and 0 books in all the other Subcategories, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender). The prefilled books are listed alphabetically, but you can see how the voting is going. If you don't see a title you would like to vote, there is the possibility to input the title in the input boxes I created for each subcategory. The input boxes are independent from the check boxes, so, for example, you can vote 3 books in the Gay Comedy Category using the check boxes and then input a title in the same Gay Comedy Category using the specific input box, total 4 books for the Gay Comedy Category. The input boxes are able to receive only 1 book, so if you need to nominate more than one book, use the comment section (leave a comment with Title, Author and Subcategory). This means that, using the input boxes and the comment section you can nominate any book you would like to vote for the Category and that is not listed with the check boxes. Every morning I will update each Category/Subcategory with the books people nominated the day before using the input boxes or the comment section, those books will be listed at the end of the poll, since I can't update the poll, and to vote them, people will have to use or again the input boxes or the comment section.
If a Category/Subcategory has more than 10 books, the books are split in group of 10, again in alphabetically order. The check boxes allow you to vote more than one book in the same group. I only suggested to not vote all the books in the same group, but again, if you fill as you have to vote all of them, you can.
In this moment your task is mainly to nominate the books, help in filling the categories/subcategories.
Second Phase: Open poll with single options (radio buttons) from Friday (night) October 16 to Thursday (afternoon) October 29. Single options (radio buttons) means that you can vote only one book inside the same Category/Subcategory (example, you can vote 1 book in the Gay Comedy Category and 1 book in the Lesbian Comedy Category, total 2 book in the Comedy Category). You are not forced to vote all the Category/Subcategory (example, you can vote 1 book in the Lesbian Comedy Category and 0 books in all the other Subcategories, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender). The prefilled books are listed alphabetically and they are the first 10 book for each Category/Subcategory voted in the First Phase, and you can see how the voting is going. At this point it's no more possible to enter new books, the popularity phase is open only to the books nominated in the previous two phases. Only the Subcategory with more than 5 books will enter the Third Phase, Subcategories with less than 5 books will be deleted; I will try to compact those Subcategories that didn't reach 5 books, but that maybe have more than 5 books as Category (for example, 2 books in the Lesbian Poetry Subcategory, 2 books in the Gay Poetry Subcategory, 1 books in the Transgender Poetry Subcategory, total 5 books in the Poetry Subcategory).
In this moment your task is to vote the finalist (1 book) for each category that will be the popularity winner for that category.
Meanwhile the Jury will have the chance to nominate books that didn't arrive in the Second Phase, or maybe that weren't nominated before, or that probably will not be the winner of the popularity contest. The Jury can nominate as many books as the categories in the popularity contest, meaning that, if we have 15 categories in the popularity contest, the Jury can nominate 15 books as well. The number of books that will pass to Phase 3 is according to the number of jurors I have for the reading phase 3. If I have 40 jurors, 5 books read per Juror, 40X5=200, each book has to be read by 3 jurors, 200/3=66 books will pass to Phase 3. If 16 books wins the Popularity contest, the Jury has the chance to nominate 50 books (66-16=50). For a book to be nominated by the Jury I have to receive a positive vote from, at least, 3 jurors. The book nominated by 3 jurors, will be read by 3 other different jurors, not the same who nominated it.
Third and Last Phase: November / December 2009 (more or less, the jury will have one month to read the books, but I can allow some contingency). The jury will read all the books winner of the popularity contest + books nominated by the Jury. Each book will be read by 3 jurors that will rate it 1 to 30. I will ask to Publishers / Authors to provide 3 ebooks (preferable) or print books (acceptable) of each title for the jury to be read. Print books will be send directly to the juror who has to read it, so the juror has the right to ask to change book to read if he/she doesn't want to be directly in contact with the Publisher/Author. Publishers/Authors that will not provide ebooks/print books will be disqualified (I will consider some exceptions, obvioulsy).
Due to the different nature of the Genre, Fiction and Non Fiction will not compete together, so, at the end of this phase, we will have a winner for Fiction and a winner for Non Fiction Category.
First Phase: Open poll with multiple options (check boxes) from Friday October 2 to Friday (afternoon) October 16. Multiple options (check boxes) means that you can vote more books inside the same Category/Subcategory (example, you can vote 3 books in the Gay Comedy Category and 2 books in the Lesbian Comedy Category, total 5 books in the Comedy Category). You are not forced to vote all the Category/Subcategory (example, you can vote 1 books in the Lesbian Comedy Category and 0 books in all the other Subcategories, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender). The prefilled books are listed alphabetically, but you can see how the voting is going. If you don't see a title you would like to vote, there is the possibility to input the title in the input boxes I created for each subcategory. The input boxes are independent from the check boxes, so, for example, you can vote 3 books in the Gay Comedy Category using the check boxes and then input a title in the same Gay Comedy Category using the specific input box, total 4 books for the Gay Comedy Category. The input boxes are able to receive only 1 book, so if you need to nominate more than one book, use the comment section (leave a comment with Title, Author and Subcategory). This means that, using the input boxes and the comment section you can nominate any book you would like to vote for the Category and that is not listed with the check boxes. Every morning I will update each Category/Subcategory with the books people nominated the day before using the input boxes or the comment section, those books will be listed at the end of the poll, since I can't update the poll, and to vote them, people will have to use or again the input boxes or the comment section.
If a Category/Subcategory has more than 10 books, the books are split in group of 10, again in alphabetically order. The check boxes allow you to vote more than one book in the same group. I only suggested to not vote all the books in the same group, but again, if you fill as you have to vote all of them, you can.
In this moment your task is mainly to nominate the books, help in filling the categories/subcategories.
Second Phase: Open poll with single options (radio buttons) from Friday (night) October 16 to Thursday (afternoon) October 29. Single options (radio buttons) means that you can vote only one book inside the same Category/Subcategory (example, you can vote 1 book in the Gay Comedy Category and 1 book in the Lesbian Comedy Category, total 2 book in the Comedy Category). You are not forced to vote all the Category/Subcategory (example, you can vote 1 book in the Lesbian Comedy Category and 0 books in all the other Subcategories, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender). The prefilled books are listed alphabetically and they are the first 10 book for each Category/Subcategory voted in the First Phase, and you can see how the voting is going. At this point it's no more possible to enter new books, the popularity phase is open only to the books nominated in the previous two phases. Only the Subcategory with more than 5 books will enter the Third Phase, Subcategories with less than 5 books will be deleted; I will try to compact those Subcategories that didn't reach 5 books, but that maybe have more than 5 books as Category (for example, 2 books in the Lesbian Poetry Subcategory, 2 books in the Gay Poetry Subcategory, 1 books in the Transgender Poetry Subcategory, total 5 books in the Poetry Subcategory).
In this moment your task is to vote the finalist (1 book) for each category that will be the popularity winner for that category.
Meanwhile the Jury will have the chance to nominate books that didn't arrive in the Second Phase, or maybe that weren't nominated before, or that probably will not be the winner of the popularity contest. The Jury can nominate as many books as the categories in the popularity contest, meaning that, if we have 15 categories in the popularity contest, the Jury can nominate 15 books as well. The number of books that will pass to Phase 3 is according to the number of jurors I have for the reading phase 3. If I have 40 jurors, 5 books read per Juror, 40X5=200, each book has to be read by 3 jurors, 200/3=66 books will pass to Phase 3. If 16 books wins the Popularity contest, the Jury has the chance to nominate 50 books (66-16=50). For a book to be nominated by the Jury I have to receive a positive vote from, at least, 3 jurors. The book nominated by 3 jurors, will be read by 3 other different jurors, not the same who nominated it.
Third and Last Phase: November / December 2009 (more or less, the jury will have one month to read the books, but I can allow some contingency). The jury will read all the books winner of the popularity contest + books nominated by the Jury. Each book will be read by 3 jurors that will rate it 1 to 30. I will ask to Publishers / Authors to provide 3 ebooks (preferable) or print books (acceptable) of each title for the jury to be read. Print books will be send directly to the juror who has to read it, so the juror has the right to ask to change book to read if he/she doesn't want to be directly in contact with the Publisher/Author. Publishers/Authors that will not provide ebooks/print books will be disqualified (I will consider some exceptions, obvioulsy).
Due to the different nature of the Genre, Fiction and Non Fiction will not compete together, so, at the end of this phase, we will have a winner for Fiction and a winner for Non Fiction Category.
