A Crazy Little Thing Called YA discussion

Do we actually have a September Keyword challenge? I would like one for sure. Any takers?

Same, I enjoyed this month's challenge

i would love a september challenge, but becca is pretty busy and anna hasn't been active lately :/

Shall we just start one ourselves?

How many people do you think will participate? I mean should we go for teams? Or just solo challenges?
I'm all for starting one, but shouldn't we consult a mod? If we don't need to, then let's do it!!

Hey everyone! Sorry for the delay, I have been freeing my mind and soul on vacation, but anyway, I'm not sure if there will be a challenge. I'm really overwhelmed right now and school is starting soon for me, it's just hard without Anna to help me

Um, sorry if this is a bit forward, but can we like elect pseudo-mods or like temporary mods for this month? It would take pressure off Becca, and we could have our challenge......

Or we could first get to know how many people would be willing to participate in this challenge (do a poll) and then if it's like really popular, then we start thinking whether to do it or not?

And if it is, we could have volunteer mods (just for this month) (more than one so the work isn't too much and because of differing time zones) to help us carry it out.

Trisha wrote: "Um, sorry if this is a bit forward, but can we like elect pseudo-mods or like temporary mods for this month? It would take pressure off Becca, and we could have our challenge......

Or we could fir..."

Those were my thoughts, too, Trisha. I am in the polls group, so I'll make one and we can, all of us here, send it to our friends in this group? As to titles I'd prefer assistant mod, pseudo sounds too much like fake to me, lol.

OK, so here'e the link for the Poll.

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...

Monique wrote: "Trisha wrote: "Um, sorry if this is a bit forward, but can we like elect pseudo-mods or like temporary mods for this month? It would take pressure off Becca, and we could have our challenge......

..."

you have a point with pseudo ;)

Doing the poll now

I can make you both mods and Adela, since she said she would help out with the group! (Hopefully Anna won't mind...;) )

As long as you don't cause trouble and take over the whole group like a zombie apocalypse lol, then it is settled.

Yup! :)

Thanks, Becca! I hope that takes some pressure off for you. :)

Becca da wrote: "As long as you don't cause trouble and take over the whole group like a zombie apocalypse lol, then it is settled."

We'll try our best Becca ;)
Thanks!

Uh huh!

Hey, I wanted to ask, till what time should we wait for poll results to organise the challenge?

I mean, since one week is already gone, should we wait for like Sep 10, and take a decision on whether to conduct the challenge? And if yes, how to conduct it?

I was thinking, if not too many people are interested, should we do like a different challenge because teams will be hard if there aren't a lot of people?

I looked at the current results, and I think there are quite the number of people, 17 at present I think, not counting me since I didn't vote (was I supposed to? I didn't know whether I should have) so any ideas as to what we should do?

Adela wrote: "I know I'm not really an organizer of this event, but I figured that since I'm a moderator I could help out with a few things if that's okay! I think we should start the challenge now despite the f..."

Of course, it's okay :)

I'm with you Adela, I feel starting it today would be better.......do you think we should get people into teams, and then if there are any more who want to sign up, we could add them randomly?

Also, how many teams do you think we should go with? I mean, four is a good number, but do we have enough participants?

Adela wrote: "I know I'm not really an organizer of this event, but I figured that since I'm a moderator I could help out with a few things if that's okay! I think we should start the challenge now despite the f..."

My idea was to wait until the 10th for the poll results, but actually count anything read after the 31st August for the challenge. If there aren't enough people for more than one group we could:

-either take up the challenge as a group together and just see how many books we can get read in one month

-or do it as an individual challenge each?

In both cases we could stick with the website Becca mentioned for the Key words. What do you think?

As of today, how many participants would there be? I mean 17 would make three nice groups, right? And last month some people joined later, too, so why not this month?

Beccas recommended website proposes these keywords for September:

star, cry, she, window, forever ,eye

shall we use them?

Monique wrote: "Adela wrote: "I know I'm not really an organizer of this event, but I figured that since I'm a moderator I could help out with a few things if that's okay! I think we should start the challenge now..."

I agree with the count anything after 31st of August

Monique wrote: "As of today, how many participants would there be? I mean 17 would make three nice groups, right? And last month some people joined later, too, so why not this month?"

Three is a good number, and I agree, some competition makes it much more enjoyable!

Monique wrote: "Beccas recommended website proposes these keywords for September:

star, cry, she, window, forever ,eye

shall we use them?"

I don't think there's a problem with them? I think they're okay.

Adela wrote: "So when is the challenge going to begin?"

Um, it's almost the end of the 7th for me (I'm in India), so 8th or 9th at the latest? I think we'll be able to get everything organised till then? Also, I'll be going to sleep in an hour, but I think I'll be available 10:00am(IST) onwards tomorrow (I have an exam)

So, so far we agree on the keywords and counting reads after the 31st August. There are two people not from our group who saw the poll I created on the polls site, do we invite and accept them?

From us here so far I see:
Becca,
Chloe,
Amelie,
Megan,
Rheanna,
Maja,
Tianna,
Jack
Tori,
Athena,
Tora,
Aria,
Tabby,
Adela,
Trisha,
and me: Monique.

Did I miss someone?

Latest additions:

Aimée
Gwynwth,
Jazmin,
Brinley

That makes 20 meaning 4 grops of five not bad at all :)

Adela wrote: "Yay! Well, good luck with your exam 😊"

Thanks!

Monique wrote: "Latest additions:

Aimée
Gwynwth,
Jazmin,
Brinley

That makes 20 meaning 4 grops of five not bad at all :)"

That's pretty good :)

One more to add ro the list: Tamie-lee :)

Oh my, 20 new messages! Thank you all so much for doing this :)

2 more now too: Natalie and Aimee

Add Lucy Tonks

Hi guys, Since Natalie has now signed in, too, we are six in the bkue group now, so no more transfer of "Newbies" here please before all you others have full team.
Anfd it's the 13th anyway.

Monique wrote: "Hi guys, Since Natalie has now signed in, too, we are six in the bkue group now, so no more transfer of "Newbies" here please before all you others have full team.
Anfd it's the 13th anyway."

Ok! And yes, I forgot to send a message out for the last day, but I'll send one out today.

Hi guys, I have seen the question on the team red thread, do we count re-reads? I am not sure on the topic, what do you think?

Yes!

So, any reread counts? regardless of when you read it?

No, I don't agree to that, The most I'd agree to was if the re-read was done now and showing in the currently reading tab with progress and results in a review.

Monique wrote: "No, I don't agree to that, The most I'd agree to was if the re-read was done now and showing in the currently reading tab with progress and results in a review."

Ok, I'll publish that with the rules. :)

I realised we never published the group results, did we?

September challenge team green 72 points
September challenge team blue 232 points
September challenge tem Yellow 279 points
September challenge team red 336 points

Well done teams!