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therealljidol2016-05-13 08:19 am
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Green Room - Week 22 - Day 4
Good morning Idolers!
I'm not sure if you saw this yesterday, but there is an anthology out there featuring several former contestants that is having an Indiegogo campaign! So check it out, and if you can help - do so! If you can't, then spread the word so that others can find out about it! https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/marked-by-scorn#/ (One of the levels is $4 and you get the e-book version! That's a really great deal! With the names that I know on that list, it's bound to be a good book.
Speaking of "good books", this is a good time to mention our Amazon store! http://astore.amazon.com/li0cd-20
There's a lot of great books there as well! (and of course, just by visiting it before doing the rest of your Amazon shopping helps!)
Which reminds me that I need to start coming up with the new incentives for our Patrons! https://www.patreon.com/user?ty=h&u=70027
What are some things I could offer that might tip you over into joining the team? ;)
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Happy Friday the 13th!
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http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/929542.html is the place where you go to link your entries! I hope to see a lot more action there, and soon! :)
I'm not sure if you saw this yesterday, but there is an anthology out there featuring several former contestants that is having an Indiegogo campaign! So check it out, and if you can help - do so! If you can't, then spread the word so that others can find out about it! https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/marked-by-scorn#/ (One of the levels is $4 and you get the e-book version! That's a really great deal! With the names that I know on that list, it's bound to be a good book.
Speaking of "good books", this is a good time to mention our Amazon store! http://astore.amazon.com/li0cd-20
There's a lot of great books there as well! (and of course, just by visiting it before doing the rest of your Amazon shopping helps!)
Which reminds me that I need to start coming up with the new incentives for our Patrons! https://www.patreon.com/user?ty=h&u=70027
What are some things I could offer that might tip you over into joining the team? ;)
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Happy Friday the 13th!
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http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/929542.html is the place where you go to link your entries! I hope to see a lot more action there, and soon! :)
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There has been discussion in a previous day's GR that "the new school" of Idol is less willing to pull the trigger on any of the twists. And that's true, I keep putting the gun on the table and people just pass it by.
Do you think it's more of an "I'm focused on my writing and nothing else" or an online shift of "not wanting to screw each other over"? A combination of those two elements? Something else entirely?
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No one goes after them, and they don't use the weapon in their hand. So maybe it's time to start giving more incentives to use them offensively. ;)
(Of course, I think there will be a segment of the Idol population upset with that... just like there is a segment upset that it's not happening more!)
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Why am I in the GR when my entries are not done?
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It also keeps someone with a huge friends list from completely dominating things. Knowing that it's there (or could be there) is a threat to make sure no one tries running away with the competition too early. ;)
(You *can* survive it. You just have to also be social and/or make sure the person who has it is never in a position where they feel like using it!)
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*passes cookie*
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I was a person who was given a gun in S9. I was simultaneously horrified and mystified by it. And it was a pretty serious potential twist. I didn't use it. I'm also a player who offered a bye to two folks who needed one. Nothing horrifying or mystifying in that gesture. So....I don't know! Both pulling the trigger and gifting a bye seem to be twisty. But the gun seemed...less fair of a twist? To an innocent player?
I guess it comes down to that. Fairness. Or unfairness.
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I'm for a clean competition, were folks win or lose on the merits of their writing, not wicked twists and turns. There is enough unpredictability in rl without having it in the things we do for fun...just saying. :-)
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People are going to find something to yell regardless. The twists keep things interesting. (and there is a balance between "fair" and "entertaining" - between the writing and the show/writers and the readers... and if something has the potential to get *anyone* then it's equally "fair". :D)
(Note: Topsy Turvy *is* scary. But it's only been used once, in the history of Idol, in a case where people thought that someone's "personal popularity" was getting him further than his "writing ability" It's more of the boogeyman than something that will actually reach out from under your bed to get you.
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Also, apart from reading and voting last season, this mini-series is my only real Idol experience, and heretofore that experience has been wonderful, beyond wonderful, and that is what I am clinging to as hard as I can. (I suspect that my enthusiasm as a new player, and excitement at the wonderful things I read here had as much to do, if not more, for my much longer than expected stay in the competition.) So while I am so grateful for the wonderful experience until this week, in light of what occurred I am wary of anything that might encourage this behavior in the future.
I believe there is an honorable way to play an extremely competitive game, with all kinds of challenges, but Gary, I didn't play with bullies when I was a child, why would I want to play with them now? And why would I want to play in a situation that tolerates, even fosters that kind of behavior? We are all aghast when we see bullying in the schoolyard, and among kids online. And more than once I have heard people, adults ask how it can happen. Well this is how all atrocities occur. A bully attacks, and no one stands up to them, in fact people bend over backwards to "make peace" with them. This is how children learn how to bully, and that no one will stop them.
Obviously, I am still disgusted, but I have great faith in you personally, and in your Idol, and in the vast majority of Idol-ers. But right now I am trying really hard to cling to what's good here and excise (from my mind and heart) what is not good. The balance is so overwhelmingly good, and positive. The people are so abundantly good. Just give me a minute or two more to work it through. It's math, right? Math takes me awhile.
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I'm for a clean competition, were folks win or lose on the merits of their writing, not wicked twists and turns. There is enough unpredictability in rl without having it in the things we do for fun...just saying. :-)
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Combine that with people habitually forgetting this is "event TV" rather than something that's based solely on writing merit.
I wonder how people would react if all the Twists came with an auto-destruct button, e.g., "Use in two weeks, else target will be selected at random ..."
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That part always makes me chuckle when I think of how many people complain about the Pulitzers every year and how "it's all political"... and the Puppies at the Hugos... (as well as what they were complaining about, it's all part of the same complaining about stuff cycle. *Insert well known and obscure writing competitions here and they are having this on some level)
No one is ever going to 100% agree on what has the most "merit". ;)
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I'm not sure though that they want to be the one to throw the first punch in the game itself. Even in the spirit of "We're just having some fun here"
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I would just add that there is some significant social pressure not to fire the gun, lest you become an Idol Villain. A villain may do well, but they'll never win. There's a reason so many of our past winners have also been Spirit of LJ Idol in our season.
Just like Gary has chosen to have us vote FOR entries and contestants to stay in, rather than AGAINST entries and contestants to send them home, I think most of us are more comfortable with powers that HELP people move forward, rather than hurt a fellow contestant. Of course, even the "positive" powers can be used strategically to put someone else at a disadvantage, but they are primarily used for good.
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(Even the act of giving someone a second chance means that someone else might finish in a lower spot than they would have otherwise)
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Honestly, I think the occasional tension between contestants is part of why those powers don't get used more often. None of us are mortal enemies who would gladly set the other person's game on fire and then toast marshmallows over the flames. But we aren't congenial enough that firing a shot across the bow would be laughed off like we were little kids playing a game of Sorry.
On a bad day, it's more like the Cold War, and no one wants to fire the first nuke because it's not commensurate to how we feel - and it's not good for our own survival, either.
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THIS.