Hmm, I see your point. It might take a while to get everybody who wants to participate to post their picks. At this point, I'd imagine that you really just want to get this over with. OK then, I have a couple of suggestions.
1) How about setting a deadline of 24 or 48 hours for everybody who wants to take part to submit their new wish list. We could send out PMs to all the participants alerting them to the deadline. If you'd like, I (or perhaps even another poster) could help you with sending the PMs out. The PMs needn't be anything more than a simple note telling each person to check out this topic and read what's going on. Then at the end of the time period allotted, you make the selections and anybody who didn't get their picks in will have to settle for whatever is leftover.
2A) Or, you could simply choose the order that people are selected, then send out a PM to everybody letting them know the place in line that they're at and tell them that they have 48 hours to choose something off the list. Person #1 chooses the game he wants, then person #2 chooses the game that he wants from the remaining games. So on & so forth.
Ideally we would proceed though the roster of participants within 48 hours. If it works right though, when you come back here in 48 hours and see what picks were made, you can simply start sending games out. That would eliminate the whole ordeal of you having to go check everybody's list of games and then checking to see what is still left in the gift pile. We will have done that part for you.
Of course, the problem with that second plan is that the people lower down on the list have to wait until the higher up people pick something. If say #8 takes his sweet ass time getting his pick in, #9 through 25 will have to wait until #8 is done to see what's left.
2B) So a possible variation could be for you to post the order in which we will be picking, then to set aside a time when people can pick their games. If they don't show up for that period, they lose their place and are skipped over. Perhaps if we do it in groups and make the selection period for each group between a certain hours. Say, picks #1-5 make there picks between 6:00PM to 6:30PM (for example) some night this week. If anybody in #1-5 fails to show up, they loose their place and end up getting bumped to the bottom of the list. Then we have #6-10 choose between 7:00PM & 7:30PM, and so on & so forth.
Obviously if we do have the selection periods in a given timeframe, we'd better make it clear what time zones we're talking about.
What do you think about these suggestion? Anybody else out there have any thoughts?
1) How about setting a deadline of 24 or 48 hours for everybody who wants to take part to submit their new wish list. We could send out PMs to all the participants alerting them to the deadline. If you'd like, I (or perhaps even another poster) could help you with sending the PMs out. The PMs needn't be anything more than a simple note telling each person to check out this topic and read what's going on. Then at the end of the time period allotted, you make the selections and anybody who didn't get their picks in will have to settle for whatever is leftover.
2A) Or, you could simply choose the order that people are selected, then send out a PM to everybody letting them know the place in line that they're at and tell them that they have 48 hours to choose something off the list. Person #1 chooses the game he wants, then person #2 chooses the game that he wants from the remaining games. So on & so forth.
Ideally we would proceed though the roster of participants within 48 hours. If it works right though, when you come back here in 48 hours and see what picks were made, you can simply start sending games out. That would eliminate the whole ordeal of you having to go check everybody's list of games and then checking to see what is still left in the gift pile. We will have done that part for you.
Of course, the problem with that second plan is that the people lower down on the list have to wait until the higher up people pick something. If say #8 takes his sweet ass time getting his pick in, #9 through 25 will have to wait until #8 is done to see what's left.
2B) So a possible variation could be for you to post the order in which we will be picking, then to set aside a time when people can pick their games. If they don't show up for that period, they lose their place and are skipped over. Perhaps if we do it in groups and make the selection period for each group between a certain hours. Say, picks #1-5 make there picks between 6:00PM to 6:30PM (for example) some night this week. If anybody in #1-5 fails to show up, they loose their place and end up getting bumped to the bottom of the list. Then we have #6-10 choose between 7:00PM & 7:30PM, and so on & so forth.
Obviously if we do have the selection periods in a given timeframe, we'd better make it clear what time zones we're talking about.
What do you think about these suggestion? Anybody else out there have any thoughts?
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