Green Room - Week 3 - Day 12

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Good morning!

Today is the final day of contestant only voting for Week 3! http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/960470.html Pretty sure I know how this is going to go. BUT, as usual, "pretty sure" only goes so far... and is often wrong! So keep those votes coming!

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Yesterday, there was a conversation that might have gotten lost given how busy the Green Room ended up getting. ;)

It was about the efforts of 2017 Revival/Livejournal Lives to "Make LJ Great Again".

I've noticed though, how quickly that tends to dissolve into a bunch of white people (mostly women, from the comments I've seen. That's probably just because LJ has always been "mostly women") sitting around talking about how awesome it was back when they used to be gather together to be nasty to other people.

Which I think is something not part of the discussion yesterday: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/961239.html?thread=82713303#t82713303 that there was a shift away from cyberbullying and the anon-communities ended up going deeper underground. (I've seen some folks express regret, or at least acknowledge that things got out of hand)

LJ definitely did a lot of the damage themselves through some "bad PR moves" to try to clean up the place, to make it safer for advertisers - instead driving away some of the folks they were trying to keep!

I DO hope that their efforts to bring more people back to the fold are successful. After all, a more active Livejournal has been something Idol has been doing it's best to achieve for years!

There are, of course, going to be naysayers. But I think it's a worthwhile tilt at the windmills.

Results - Week 3

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Sorry for the delay.

This time I can literally blame it on Canadians!

Damn them and their unexpectedly coming into town for a couple days and springing it on you at the last minute.

Fortunately, I already knew what was going to happen this week.

I said there would be 2-5 people leaving, and that it would be decided by where the numbers broke. Well, people made it extra easy for me.

We have three sacrifices!

Which means leaving us this week are:

alephz
cindynmuttnaz
and karmasoup

Which is definitely some very talented people, but they are also people that I'm relatively sure will be fighting for a spot during Second Chance when that rolls around.

For the rest of you - I'll be posting the next Topic thread and Work Room shortly, with an extra special surprise/treat.

I am still tallying the actual results. Once I am done though, if you want to email me at clauderainsrm@gmail.com and ask where you ranked this week (the general "low/medium/high") I will be able to provide you with that information.

Topic - Break Week

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Yes, there is a Break, and this is it.

However, I am putting this up as a non-mandatory challenge. A challenge with a reward.

The topics this week are:

Jantelagen
Sang-froid
Kummerspeck
and
Possum ran over my grave

You have until Jan 2nd at 8pm EST to complete ALL FOUR entries.

Have fun!

Work Room - Break Week

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I've given you some time off during what is, traditionally, the most busy time of year.

But in true Idol fashion, I've also put out a bit of a trap. :) http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/961914.html

Because you *can* take the time off. Or you can complete four entries during that time, knowing that you will get something that could be useful in the coming weeks!

Is the time worth the reward? Is the risk, because who knows what might be waiting at the end of the non-mandatory week?

And what's going on with those topics anyway?

This "week" should be a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with!