Green Room - Week 26 - Day 7

[clauderainsrm]

Remember what I said about how I try to always be optimistic - because what is happening is going to happen regardless, and you might as well find something positive to focus on? (And of course there are some *truly* horrific things that are exempt from that

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[clauderainsrm]

While I was eating lunch, I was thinking that folks who weren't around "in the old days" might like a specific example of the kinds of suggestions that were received. I'm actually going to use one that I ended up using. Just not *when* they wanted it used.

Someone (I know who is was and pretty sure which season, but let's just go with "someone" and "in the past") posted in the Green Room that we needed to have a "Blue" as a topic.

I said "No". (I said more than "No", and explained *some* of my rational.)

They were upset because they wanted more "vague topics".

Now for those of you sitting here right now, you are laughing - because of all the vague topics you've seen. But up until that point, things were pretty straight forward. You could interpret, of course. But they weren't just a single word)

A couple reasons why I didn't use it:

(1) I already had all the topics planned out for that season.

(2) I only solicit suggestions from contestants for topics for special events/special powers. Because if you are giving a topic, you probably have a good idea what you want to write. So you have an advantage. Me taking that suggestion would be giving one contestant an advantage over the others.

(3) It didn't fit in with the theme of the other topics used for that season. Even if I was going to ignore 1 and 2.

(4) Even if I disregarded those other points - you just *announced* what an upcoming topic was going to be, had I taken the suggestion. No way was I going to give people a heads up like that. (it's the same reason why the more someone talks, in public, about wanting to be a Gatekeeper, the less likely they are to become one. I don't want people to know what's coming)

(5) the fiction-vs non-fiction debate was pretty heavy at the time, and, to me, at the time, this veered too heavily onto the fiction side during a time period when the vast majority of Idolers were on the non-fiction.

There were more reasons. But it was taken, by some, to be that I just didn't like the person. Which was - and is - far from the truth. Or that I was a control freak, which is true. :)

[clauderainsrm]

Like I said, I eventually started using 1 word topics - and it was specifically because that conversation got me thinking about it.

The same way that someone (again, I know who) saying that we should "play as teams" was what sparked the Friends and Rivals mini season. I just won't change things in mid-stream, or without sitting down and figuring out how these ideas will impact the bigger picture.