Look at the poll closely. At any time we can change our votes. In most polls once you vote your vote is set in stone but on this poll I have selected to allow people to change their votes at any time.
Here is he logic...
Person 1 votes for 5 books they are willing to read and discuss.
Book X wins and is selected for group discussion.
We decide as a community that we would like to read 2 fiction books concurrently so we look again at the poll results and see Book Y with the 2nd greatest number of votes.
The question now becomes whether all the people that voted for Book X and Book Y are willing to read Book X and Book Y at the same time. Or when they voted for Book X, and Book X won the poll, did that automatically mean they no longer wanted their vote to still stand for Book Y?
The solution to this chaos is for me to run a 2nd poll and not try to select 2 books from the same poll. Getting people to go back and edit their poll votes is not easy. People have moved on and are no longer even looking at the poll thread. They don't see my posts asking for people to change their votes if so desired.
As we all know this was an experiment. I think we all love this new voting method. What I will do next time is simply run one poll, select a winner, and then run another poll to select a 2nd book.
The only other choice is to have some options in the poll that say:
- I am interested in reading only 1 of these books at one time. 2 books would be too much for me.
- I am interested in reading up to 2 of these books concurrently.
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