Community-led discussion posts

[melannen]

So, there was some suggestion in my previous post that if we start up a community read-along again, I should let other people choose the books and lead the discussions.

This is less work for me, so I am all in favor of it!

Here's how I envision it working: We have a post with a sign-up sheet; people sign up to take a week. You can either choose a book when you sign up, or wait until your week comes (as long as nobody else has signed up for the same book.) At the start of your week, you make a post announcing your read-along, and at the end of the week, you make a discussion post with reading group questions, and then lead the discussion in comments.

My role will be to a) remind people their week is coming up, and b) make sure that everyone who wants to read along has the resources to do it.

Also, none of this should stop members from just randomly starting discussions whenever they felt like it!

Here is a poll:

Poll #2441 Read-along

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 10

View Respondents

Should we switch to you all leading read-alongs?

View Answers

I like this idea.
6 (60.0%)

The concept is good, but I will explain in a comment how you should change it.
1 (10.0%)

I would participate by reading along!
9 (90.0%)

I would be willing to lead a week!
4 (40.0%)

In fact, I will claim my week in the comments *right now*!
0 (0.0%)

I hate you, and I hate your community.
1 (10.0%)

I think you should keep leading them all, stop being lazymod!
0 (0.0%)

(If you wish to sign up already, pick a Sunday in the next two months to start your week; if I get enough interest I'll do a more formal ongoing sign-up post later.)

Comments

[stellar_dust]

... can I claim a week WAY in advance, like mid-May, when I'll be between classes and field school?

[melannen]

Sure, but wait until I have a real claiming post up?

If I put up a claiming post. ATM, we have so few people willing to run a week, that this will either be a sporadic thing, or something everyone does very repeatedly. (Or something not done at all.)

That's mostly why I originally set it up as all run by me - when you're trying to build up a small community, you can't count on the membership do to stuff, because if you *could*, you wouldn't need to do things to build up the community .

(It's not really *that* much actual work, it just hit my procrastination triggers - pick a novel, come up with three to six things about it that you'd like to talk about, scribble them down, try to answer any comments on the post when it goes up, the end. You don't even have to re-read if you know the book fairly well already...)

[tablesaw]

I'm a slow reader. I'd like to see re-reads get spread out over a longer period of time.