Green Room - Week 1 - Day 7

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Livejournal is a diverse and often wonderful place full of interesting characters and dangerous flora.

It is also a place where you have to remember that when you edit your votes, you need to recheck the rest of your selections.

Is it a pain in ass? Yes. Is it something LJ knows about. Yes. But apparently it’s not high on their list of priorities. After all, the majority of LJ uses the poll system to select their favorite My Little Pony.

Which means this particular system glitch doesn’t really impact them, or the ongoing campaign for acceptance of transgendered ponies in slash fiction. Nor does it have any bearing on Russian general elections. With those two markets in the clear, LJ is free to ignore it, spending more time working on the code that makes your LJ more like facebook!

Which means that the brunt of the responsibility for looking after your vote falls on you, the voter. If you decide to edit your vote after you cast it, or think that you might (maybe you are voting as you read…) make a note of the entries that you like, so that you can ensure that all of your votes stay. If they don’t – click them again.

Then check all of your votes before hitting “submit” to make sure that boxes marked accurately reflect your intent.


I know it’s an extra step, but at least it’s not a hanging chad! Or hanging anyone else for that matter!

The deadline to get your vote, your edit vote, your neighbors vote, your neighbros vote, and any other thing you might do with the Week 1 poll , is TONIGHT at 9pm EST!

Second Chance Idol - Topic 1

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When I post this, there are still several more hours to go in the main poll.

However, we already know who the first five members of our debut class of Second Chance Idol: Exhibit A are going to be based on who did not make the Week 1 deadline. So, I am giving them a little bit of a headstart.

They will be joined by 5 more who are eliminated from the main competition tonight!

The topic is literally the very first thing a contestant sent me for this mini-season.

It is, appropriately enough


Second Chances

The deadline to link your entries back to this thread is Wednesday Jan 30th at 8pm EST

Have fun!

Note: This thread is for Second Chance Idol participant entry links only

Results - Week 1

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The bad news of the evening is that it is elimination time. We are saying goodbye to 5 contestants. The good part of it, is that they are leaving the main competition and will have another shot in Second Chance Idol!

They are:

ashgaelsonaria
butterbuns
kehlen_crow
lostin_thestars
sra33

All of them are veterans, which just goes to show that (especially in a mini-season) you can never be sure what to expect!

So, they may not be in the main poll anymore, but they aren’t actually leaving us quite yet! http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/614176.html is their first topic so hopefully they are prepared to hit the ground running!

Good luck to all of you. I look forward to being able to welcome you back at some point!

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As for the rest of you, congratulations. You survived. Take a moment to celebrate. The next topic will be posted soon enough!

Topic - Week 2

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When you are taking topic suggestions from competitors, there are going to be some repeated ideas, and some that just don’t really fit.

But there are also some clever ones. When you open the field up, you just have to grab what you can use and


Throw Back The Little Ones

The deadline to link your entry back to this thread is Thursday Jan 31st at 8pm EST

Have fun!