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This is a fairly minor thing that admittedly missed my attention until Konakaga brought it up to me. But she thought that our deadlines for nominations and votes would be based on an American time-zone since AS itself is an American-based site.

Perhaps for next year we should go with an Eastern Time Zone-based deadline for Nominations and Votes (Eastern Time Zone tending to be the key one that TV stations use for broadcasting things like, say, sports event start times)? Or perhaps go with a "midnight on 1/14 wherever you live" deadline?

Just some ideas worth considering.

Probably unnecessary, but I'm seeing if I can do it for the Voting Phase now. The problem is just that North America seems to have like six time zones so I don't know which one to pick (is there one that the US defaults to on special occasions?). The other problem is that whatever I pick, it still means I probably won't be able to make the deadline announcement and would have to trust someone else. If anyone is willing to step forward and volunteer now then that would be great but otherwise I'll have to look into that as well.

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We'll go with the Eastern Time Zone I guess. Now, I just need to find someone that will post the opening post and the deadline post to keep it in synch.

Does anyone mind posting what time it would be for them at Midnight Eastern Time Zone. Mine would be 5AM in the morning for example.

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Not quite sure how this makes too much of a difference considering the phase is not for 1 day.

@Haak 7am for me so even worse... I mean its new years when the nominations are posted, the one day of the year nobody wakes up in the morning after.

How about we keep it as-is since it's technically starting earlier? I think!? and just make the end time be EST so everyone is "happy"

I suppose we could just end it at EST midnight instead, though the question of who's going to make the deadline post still remains. I have to say, this is proving to be quite a pain in the arse. I mean I can understand if they find it a little inconvenient but I wish people wouldn't say that they didn't know what the deadline was, after I specifically marked it at the top of the opening post, time zone and countdown and everything...

I'm definitely going to have to put this on hold for next year. I gotta get all the pictures done for the Voting Phase.

Konakaga made an offer to me recently. She said a member of the AS Moderating team could take it upon themselves to lock the voting thread at midnight eastern time if we're Ok with the AS mods doing that for us.

Just an idea that I think might be worth considering. A locked thread would certainly ensure no votes getting in past the deadline.


Also, Kona said that the thread could be unlocked later on if we wanted to post results and/or have discussion of the results on the same thread.

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Sound good to me!

Well...that's Option B for me. Ideally, I'd like a deadline post so that there's absolutely no confusion nor me getting a whole load of PMs from people wondering why the thread is locked (because apparently nobody reads opening post XP). And I don't like the idea of having to go to a mod to unlock the again then waiting for a reply and all that hassle. If Konakaga can lock it on time then she might as well just join the group and post the deadline post (I just invited her). That would be easier for her anyway.

But I'm sure someone from this group can do it anyway, like Dr Casey or Seijisensei. I just haven't got round to asking them yet.

Well, ideal person for this, if we go with Midnight Eastern cutoff point, would be someone living on the North American west coast (think British Columbia, Canada and California, America).

Midnight, Eastern Time would be 9 or 10 PM, for them, not overly late.

Midnight, Eastern Time is 1:30 AM for me, which is a bit late.

You actually sleep on new years eve Triple_R :P

I don't mind posting for it, just given the day it is, just don't expect me to post the exact minute it ends like Haak did , I am just not normally 100% free then, so I'd probably have it posted within 5-15 mins after "officially" ended.

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That's would be fine.

@Haak can we have also a small change in the rules for next year; and perhaps for the voting phase too.

The change would just be: "Votes/Nominations past the deadline will be counted only if they are posted before the first results post is made. No recount will be made for any post after or in-between result posts."

Essentially just a small provision so we can be a bit more forgiving with it, especially when we accidentally miss the deadline ourselves. I don't think it really matters that much and not sure if there's any benefit in being too harsh about it. It's certainly not a problem for me.

I thought it was!!!!

Well shit, that changes everything.