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I’d like to toss my name in.

I think we still need to figure out how the ROTM pickers will be selected. As someone said before it shouldn’t be just the super users. If the person just chooses the next person it will be more of just a club within the club. Have a random drawing? Have a five-person committee pick five records and they vote on the winner?

A printable something sounds nice if the person has time to put one together. I’d prefer more of an insert though, not a fauxbi. That feels like a VMP thing and isn’t appealing (to me at least)
 
GelloJive said:
I think we still need to figure out how the ROTM pickers will be selected. As someone said before it shouldn’t be just the super users. If the person just chooses the next person it will be more of just a club within the club. Have a random drawing? Have a five-person committee pick five records and they vote on the winner?
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I agree that we need to find a way of choosing pickers that is satisfying and also we already have candidates for more than 2 years of curation ! I can volunteer to do a random drawing if that the most satisfying way of doing it.

I also agree that we need to have someone different running the guessing thread and updating the guesses, so I would suggest this process :

1. One week before the end of the month, I do a random drawing among the remaining volunteers
2. Someone volunteer to run the guess thread once someone is known for the pick of the month
3. The person responsible for the pick creates the thread so they can edit the thread name and first post with info related to the pick once it's revealed
4. The guess thread runner then takes the followings post for thread updates
 
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It must not be the same person to pick the record and run the guess thread. I feel that it removes a bit of the excitement. How can I a
ChristoBee said:
I agree that we need to find a way of choosing pickers that is satisfying and also we already have candidates for more than 2 years of curation ! I can volunteer to do a random drawing if that the most satisfying way of doing it.

I also agree that we need to have someone different running the guessing thread and updating the guesses, so I would suggest this process :

1. One week before the end of the month, I do a random drawing among the remaining volunteers
2. Someone volunteer to run the guess thread once someone is known for the pick of the month
3. The person responsible for the pick creates the thread so they can edit the thread name and first post with info related to the pick once it's revealed
4. The guess thread runner then takes the followings post for thread updates
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Let me know how we should proceed. I already have a name in mind for next AoTM but I agree that it would be better to do a random drawing among the candidates. Maybe we can ask the picker to run the next guess thread? It can be me, even if I am already running the current one, or someone else who wants to do that. Starting with Vol.2, Vol.1 picker turns into runner and so on.
 
One thing I was thinking about while reading through this was, would it make sense to have someone “outside” of this process kind of managing the order of the picks?

Or maybe its just as simple as making sure that the genre changes from month to month, so people don’t feel pressured to buy 3 metal records in a row (if that’s not their thing).
 
Ericj32 said:
One thing I was thinking about while reading through this was, would it make sense to have someone “outside” of this process kind of managing the order of the picks?

Or maybe its just as simple as making sure that the genre changes from month to month, so people don’t feel pressured to buy 3 metal records in a row (if that’s not their thing).
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I am not sure that really needs to be a concern, it's not like we are paying to receive these picks, we can choose to or not
 
Maybe there should be a way to insert a person into a specific month if they have a pick that coincides with a reissue? That would be cool.
 
Ericj32 said:
One thing I was thinking about while reading through this was, would it make sense to have someone “outside” of this process kind of managing the order of the picks?

Or maybe its just as simple as making sure that the genre changes from month to month, so people don’t feel pressured to buy 3 metal records in a row (if that’s not their thing).
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Nah
 
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