Group Builds - suggestions please

[NARSES2]

BTW the fact the poll will start the same day as the UK General Election is held is pure coincidence 

Will it be proportional representation or single member district in the event of ties? 

Good old first past the post mate  - Although in this case we will have a 1.2.3.

[Modelling_Mushi]

However I only have two prospective moderators. If you want GB's lads you have to help with running them. You cannot expect the same people to do it time and time again. I've said before and I'll reiterate it now : moderation doesn't take much time at all it just requires a little commitment. You enjoy the site so give a little back please.

I'm willing to have a go at being a moderator, I'll need some (a heck of a lot?) of tips and I will be totally out of circulation in September / early October, but if that's no barrier then sign me in 

[Go4fun]

Crossing lines, what about Air/Land builds? Part aircraft part tank/APC/Auto/truck/train/etc.?

[Weaver]

So far there are 22 suggestions. Now that is after I have excluded a couple because I just can't see how they would be policed and I've combined a couple of similar ideas so there are a lot of suggestions in there. To be honest I really can't see one or two of them taking off as they are so narrow but they will be in the poll as I could be completely wrong  

Narrow focus is not neccessarily a bad thing if the subject is popular. Look at car/bike racing for an analogy: you can have totally open formulas where, technically, anything goes, you can have one-make formulas where every vehicle is identical, or you can have anything in-between, and all produce good and entertaining racing if properly organised.

Also, what is the metric for deciding whether a GB is "successful" or not? Is it the number participating, or the quality of the models produced? If you have a GB where only six members enter but four produce outstanding models, should that be judged a "failure"?

However I only have two prospective moderators. If you want GB's lads you have to help with running them. You cannot expect the same people to do it time and time again. I've said before and I'll reiterate it now : moderation doesn't take much time at all it just requires a little commitment. You enjoy the site so give a little back please.

I'll moderate if you like. I've done it over on BTS recently and it's no big deal.

[crudebuteffective]

i would moderate if you need help

[PR19_Kit]

I'll volunteer to moderate too. I'm rarely able to join in a GB so moderating would do me OK.

[NARSES2]

Right firstly thanks for the offers of moderation, they are duly noted  

Narrow focus is not neccessarily a bad thing if the subject is popular. Look at car/bike racing for an analogy: you can have totally open formulas where, technically, anything goes, you can have one-make formulas where every vehicle is identical, or you can have anything in-between, and all produce good and entertaining racing if properly organised.

Also, what is the metric for deciding whether a GB is "successful" or not? Is it the number participating, or the quality of the models produced? If you have a GB where only six members enter but four produce outstanding models, should that be judged a "failure"?

I agree narrow focus is not necessarily a bad thing so maybe I should have used the word "niche" which again is not a bad thing just unlikely in my view to attract much interest. I may well be wrong however.

Success ? The main measure in my view is enjoyment. However the larger the number of people in the GB then the more likely is it that more people have enjoyed it.

Anyway we could discuss these things for ever and there are other places for that.

I'll lock this now and the poll will go up latter today, hopefully