7-9th JULY, site bunks booked out recently.

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Originally Posted by Messie

Clearly it is never possible to please all the people all the time

Edited for you hun...it's a PITA sometimes but yes, we're all different and always want different things

We had 160 this year, but I think that was mainly down to a certain someone pulling the crowds for us. Lets hope all those new AR attendees do it again though

D'you know, smug git me is sometimes glad I lost

I didn't vote for exactly the reason that Ralph posted - ie no idea what I'm doing next summer now, so wait and see.

I'm not saying don't have a poll, I'm just pointing out that it's a futile exercise for the majority. If nothing else a poll means nobody can moan at the organisers about what the date ends up being, because they had the chance to vote. So if another poll saves the organisers that stress, but serves no other real purpose, then stick one up. Those who don't need a poll, but just need to be told a date, either don't need to vote on it, or they can do the completely pointless and vote for every option.

[fizzwheel]

Originally Posted by -Ralph-

If nothing else a poll means nobody can moan at the organisers about what the date ends up being, because they had the chance to vote.

Exactly why it is done the way it is.

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

Exactly why it is done the way it is.

Yeah, I realise that, just a shame we have to go through that red tape, otherwise toys start flying out of prams.

Can you imagine if your workplace had to have a poll to decide what date the xmas party should be?

Maybe Kate and Wills should have had a poll to see what date was best for the nation to have an extra public holiday. An extra couple of telephone numbers at the end of X Factor would have done the job

[fizzwheel]

Its not red tape though. During one bout of discussing the way the forum is run. The feedback was that people wanted to feel more involved in how the AR / Events were organised and choosen, the best way to do that is to open up the discussion / process / decisions to everybody that uses the forum.

That is what as a team of mods / admins we were asked to do by the forum as a collective, which its why its done this way, primarily because "you" as a group wanted it that way.

As for christmas parties, why not, at my workplace, we vote for where we would like to go and then we vote on the dates its held on, once the venue is selected. It works very well and has seen an end to the complaining about one or two people making all the decisions that our christmas party venue selection has seen in the past.

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Yeah, I don't see it as red tape. It's the way that we, as a collective asked for it to be done and it makes thing a whole lot better, not worse.

[Messie]

It's also quite handy to have an idea of when most people can make it. We want to enable as many to come as possible. It's not a perfect system by any means, but it's better than no system


BTW - I think it's just got to be 29th April. Long week end, empty roads - fun times

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Well, I'm pretty sure Lou and Orose will speak to the venue just before they put up a new date poll, so we'll have up to date info and this can be done and dusted to let them just carry on with it all.

[Messie]

Indeed!