Polls and challenges in a Reading Circle
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The Polls tab runs single-choice, multiple-choice, book-nomination and date-and-time polls, with the owner choosing when results show and who sees who voted; the Challenges tab runs group goals (books finished, books in a genre or series, pages read, one book together) whose progress counts from your own reading.
The short answer
Polls
Polls is its own tab. Anyone who runs the Circle can press New poll and choose what kind of poll it is:
- Single choice, or multiple choice with a cap on how many each member may pick;
- Book nomination: members suggest a book (with a short "why this one", optional) and then vote among the suggestions; the usual "which book next?";
- Date and time: members pick among proposed slots, for a meeting.
The person making the poll also sets when it closes (optional), a quorum as a percentage of members (optional), when results are visible (while voting is open, once a member has voted, when the poll closes, or managers only, until it closes) and who can see who voted (members can see who voted for what, hidden from other members, or hidden from members and managers).
One vote per member. If results are set to show at the close, the tab says Results appear when the poll closes until then. A cancelled poll stops voting and shows no result; answers already given are kept but not counted.
Something wrong with a poll (spoilers in it, something unkind)? Report this poll goes to the Circle's owner and moderators and to nobody else.
Challenges
Challenges is the other tab. The people who run the Circle can start a Circle challenge with a name, a start and end, and what it counts:
- Books finished;
- Books in a genre or in a series (choose which);
- Pages read, from books whose length is known;
- One book together: the whole Circle finishing the same book.
Join a running challenge and set your own target ("Aiming at"); progress counts from your own reading, the shelves and progress you already keep (Shelves and progress), so there is nothing extra to log. The tab shows what is Running now, Coming up and Finished.
Leaving a challenge keeps your goal and everything you have read; you can rejoin while it runs. The people who run the Circle can hide a challenge (managers still see it, participants keep their progress) or end it early (it stays in the Circle's history). Personal goals across all your books live elsewhere: see Reading goals.
Related
- Posting in a Reading Circle: The Discussion tab is the conversation; a post has a type (general, chapter chat, checkpoint, theory, character, quote, prompt, announcement, endgame) and follows the Circle's spoiler policy, which can hide posts past your recorded progress. Report and remove work as everywhere.
- The reading plan, checkpoints and meetings: A Circle's Plan tab holds the book, the checkpoints (by chapter, percent or date) and the group's progress; a checkpoint can carry a meeting time, shown in your own timezone, and being in the Discussion during the meeting window counts as attendance. Owners can make recurring schedules and author drop-ins.
- Running a Reading Circle: Start a Circle from the Circles page (up to ten of your own); the Manage tab has one section per job (Details, Book and plan, Schedules, Access, Members, Appearance, Moderation, Polls, Challenges, Live). Moderation is a preset you read before applying, with the previous configuration kept so you can restore it; invite links can expire, be limited or revoked.
- Reading goals: Goals tracks what you read against a target you set (books finished, genres explored, a series, one particular book and more) over a period, with optional reminders, on your profile or private; a goal can rest and resume without losing anything. Five at a time.
- Shelves and progress: Your Library has five shelves (Want to Read, Reading, Completed, Did Not Finish, ARC Reads); a book lives on one at a time. Books you are reading carry a progress percentage; reaching 100 % or tapping Finished moves them to Completed and offers a review.
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