OT: Going forward with the polls

http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000010/nest/261495121?p=4

That's a dead link for me, what does it say?


I’ll be waiting, with a gun and a pack of sandwiches.

It's words of wisdom from me:

flaiky and gromit82 have already offered, so it might as well be passed to them. I don't mind running at least one poll and others might come forward if we ask for more volunteers.

According to OldAle1, 1966 was the last year that hadn't been polled before (apart from 2005 onwards) and he was going to move onto years that you or zolaaar had done before: http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000010/nest/254764355?p=7&d=254915294

If gromit82 has the results of previous polls he should be able to tell us what years have been polled recently.

Ah that would be great if you could chip in with the odd poll.  Personally I don't think it would be a problem if the host changed quite regularly, so long as the methodology is the same...

Right, so Ale was already starting a new cycle? Okay then. I guess that makes it easier. We can just pick a year from rotating decades, for variety, e.g:
A 1930s poll
A 1970s poll
A 1940s poll
A 1980s poll
A 2000s poll
A 1950s poll
A 1920s poll
A 2010s poll
A 1900-10s poll (probably merging years? Or skip this?)
A 1990s poll
A 1960s poll
..Trying to make sure we start with years not done in a long time (collectively, we should be able to remember if something was too recent?)


I’ll be waiting, with a gun and a pack of sandwiches.

I don't think different people running it is a problem either, as long as everything's counted the same way. We can make a virtue of it, since if one person can't do the poll for whatever reason, one of the others can take over.

Gromit mentioned keeping results for polls going back to when Lechuguilla was running them, so I was hoping he would be able to tell us what's been covered recently.

I think these years have been done since the end of 2014:

1928
1934
1949
1959
1965
1966
1975
1984
1990
1999
2000
2004

There was also a combined silent one, something like 1915-26, but I can't remember the exact years. There's a long period of c.1935-48 that's not been done recently, so that seems like a good place to start, unless we do 1932 and 2005 as OldAle planned.

I hesitate to mention this because it's more work and would probably mean a second person to do the votes, but something I think would add to the polls would be an acting category. I would be inclined to simplify it and put actors/actresses/leading/supporting together and then split male/female at the results stage. It depends how much interest there would be in this and it might mean dropping some other elements from the results presentation.

I've been here about 4 years and I think we did 1947 and 1962 in that time [?].

I enjoy the polls especially when I find movies I was unaware of. Thanks in advance to whomever continues running them.



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OldAussie: We did 1962 back in the Lechuguilla era, around July 2011. You did participate in that poll.

1947 is one of the years I can't find. I have a posting where Lech mentions it as one of the years we hadn't done yet, but I don't have the results for that year, which most likely means that OldAle conducted the poll but I didn't save the results.

The 1947 poll might have been on Film General. There's so many polls I lose track, but these on Classic Film Board are definitely the best.




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