Green Room - Week 29 (continuing)- Weekend Edition

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

I've been listening to "the people" and there were two distinct messages I have received. Well ok, other than "you're a *&))) Gary!", because let's face it, I get that message all the time!*g* One of them is that it was silly to have a Green Room countdown - but still have "non Green Room threads" to supplement. So, as of now, the Countdown is done. Over. We're still shutting the doors to it at the end of the season, but the countdown itself is gone. Which means back to daily Green Rooms. After all, one of the things it gives is a sense of stability. Considering how "odd" this round is to a lot of people, having that sense of stability is good.

The second message was even more interesting - which is that I concentrate too much effort into trying to be "fair" end up spending too much time attempting to satisfy people who weren't going to be happy regardless. I can see that. There *are* several times during the course of the season that had I just went with a "stfu" instead of trying to explain the process and adjust it for people's concerns that I think they would have had a smoother process. That said - I like to try to bring different viewpoints in - it's one of the disadvantages of having been involved with presenting other people's work, in one fashion or another, for over 20 years now, is that I know that I have my own ideas of what does and doesn't work, so when someone can make me rethink the process it's a good thing. It also means of course that I've been thinking through the process *a lot* longer than most people. So while I do take some of them and adjust them to the structure of Idol, most of them aren't going to be used. Most people are cool with that. Some aren't. That's pretty much an universal truth no matter where you go - if some people don't get their way, it's never going to be "fair" to them - and even if they *do* end up getting what they want, it's not that the system worked after all, it's that they found a way to get around it. . .

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For the serial-inclined: Last season's second place finisher and all around (insert description here)bettybaker has an intriguing project going on over at
http://junemcgee.livejournal.com/ that I think a lot of you might be interested in. norda is also continuing her "Dracula" series.
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But the reason we are all here today is for THOSE FOLKS, if you missed it, here's what I had to say about our FINAL FOUR:

chite: http://community.livejournal.com/therealljidol/163588.html
kittenboo: http://community.livejournal.com/therealljidol/164204.html
porcelain72: http://community.livejournal.com/therealljidol/165087.html
tulip_in_yellow: http://community.livejournal.com/therealljidol/165623.html

and more important that than, here's where they linked their entries so you can read them BEFORE THE POLL. After all, it's a lot of entries. You should make sure to read ahead of time, and LET THEM KNOW WHAT YOU THINK:

Stage 1: http://community.livejournal.com/therealljidol/162336.html
Stage Two : http://community.livejournal.com/therealljidol/164727.html
and check Stage 3 as the entries start coming in to make sure you stay ahead of the curve and comment: http://community.livejournal.com/therealljidol/165927.html

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Things are really getting down to the wire, and people have been asking me, "How are we going to handle voting on 16 SWEET entries from our FINAL FOUR?" [I know - but do you?*g*]

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Hope you guys are having a wonderful weekend!

Comments

[worldofcharlie.livejournal.com]

First post!

[desert-rose.livejournal.com]

Raises glass to you!

Congratulations! :-)

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

I personally hope we are voting on all sixty-four entries. This is too much work to not acknowledge each entry in its own right.

Not that anyone asked me.

Hey! Can I use that as a Home game entry?

[desert-rose.livejournal.com]

I also hope we can vote on the final four's hard work this round! They deserve it! And besides, having lots of voting to do will be great! :-)

[tulip-in-yellow.livejournal.com]

I personally hope we are voting on all sixty-four entries. This is too much work to not acknowledge each entry in its own right.


I second this.

[baxaphobia.livejournal.com]

That's what I get for walking away from my computer to do some housework! Geez! I'll learn my lesson someday!

[worldofcharlie.livejournal.com]

*s*

If you don't like...you can press fast forward.

[superhappytime.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that people only seem to bitch about what they think is fair or not fair when it directly affects them...to the negative, I mean. They have no problem if they are the beneficiary...that's just something they "earned."

I have no idea what you're talking about with the first paragraph...people have too much time on their hands to come up with concerns...hell, you should count down, count up, or count sideways if you feel so inclined...also, bring in fractions, imaginary numbers, and natural logs....

Re: If you don't like...you can press fast forward.

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

I think that's true *across the board* (inside and outside the game as well) that people have trouble seeing anything they do as being "bad". People have their own blinders and use them whenever it suits them the best.

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

*waves and falls over*

I will catch up with all that has been going on tomorrow, um-kay?

[imafarmgirl.livejournal.com]

Yay, the count down is gone. It was stressful.

Does anyone want two hiper dogs? They are driving me nuts.

[bretzysdude.livejournal.com]

No. Can I give you another hyper dog, or two, or perhaps... six? :)

[libra-dragon.livejournal.com]

Just got back from my grandma's. It was a nice visit after dealing with some family drama earlier in the day.

[norda.livejournal.com]

My thanks for the shout-out.

We have a few "downtime" days in DRACULA [next entry is Dr. Seward, on the 5th], so it's a good time for people to catch up, after they've read all the Idol entries, of course.

[eqfe.livejournal.com]

good point, but I must say that the dracula letters have been good reads.

[desert-rose.livejournal.com]

Who stole my weekend? *g*

It's already Monday morning, and I am not ready for it.

Enjoy what is left of your weekend, everyone!

To the final four- huge congratulations for making it through the last two stages! Thank you for some absolutely amazing entries!

I still have a ways to go reading, so am saving that as my reward for getting through my daily job search.

But first, a mug of tea. Anyone else want one? :-)

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

Tea?

*perks up*

Yes please, with a little cream and sugar?

[cubes, if you have them *grin*]

[eqfe.livejournal.com]

Yes please two lumps seperated with lemon.

[bretzysdude.livejournal.com]

Those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer. Fell asleep at a B&N reading a book, while my wife was reading kiddie books to Annabelle, and Gabby was looking for Gossip Girl-like books.

Anyone see this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV69HoILMsY) last Friday night?

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

I hadn't actually seen that yet! Spell "numnut"...man, that was great!

[tulip-in-yellow.livejournal.com]

Writing....writing...I need sleep....writing, must write more. Please send food. And water.

[baxaphobia.livejournal.com]

Can't send food or water through email but am sending hugs and support!

[eqfe.livejournal.com]

I may be wrong of course but STFU may not have kept the community intact for seven months. Your game and all but just saying.

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

The point being that there have been folks along the way who should have gotten a "stfu" instead of being treated with kid gloves. They were stirring things up for the sake of stirring it up, and had I acted sooner on them instead of trying to keep everyone happy and walk them through with baby steps hoping for the best I think half of the other things that came up would never have become issues.

Sometimes you just have to make the unpopular decisions and be done with it.

[spydielives.livejournal.com]

Pursuant to the policy updates over here (http://community.livejournal.com/lj_policy/1935.html), specifically:

We have also stated within the policy that non-graphic, non-sexualized nudity is not considered explicit adult content. This includes things such as an image of a mother breastfeeding their child, or a non-sexualized work of art such as the Statue of David. We have also extended this to our policy on default userpics; non-graphic, non-sexualized nudity is no longer considered a violation of our default userpic policy.

I hope that a return to my preferred collection of old-masters-art-based userpics will not be viewed with distaste or reported as inappropriate.

That is all.

*giggles and heads off to bed - blame the entries from kittenboo and tulip_in_yellow*

[kittenboo.livejournal.com]

so I guess we both wrote about sex, go figure :)

[chite.livejournal.com]

Crazy day for me. I got up, was happy to see that I didn't miss the topic picking, picked my topics, wrote one on the way to the wedding reception in the car, got back to my parents house to see that it was no longer my topic (d'oh!--well, at least one is written for next week), got back in the car, and rode 6 hours home, writing all the way.

the really great news is that I have only one more to do before Wednesday, and four more to do of the 16! Yay!

[eqfe.livejournal.com]

Go speed writer! Go!

[bettybaker.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks for the pimpage, man! junemcgee is well under way!

I've been reading through the entries from the final four, and I'm incredibly impressed. There's some brilliant stuff there!