>>> The trial vicdap thread was a tremendous success in terms of a lot of people did have fun. And it got big!

OK, but for record, for me it was the worst week ever. Far from being fun, having the vidcap topic taken away ruined the spoiling across the board -- for me.

That topic was 91 posts long, and of all those posts only one held an observation that somewhat advanced my existing perception of the week, or at least was an interesting reinforcement of my spec, and that was Krautboy's post #81, which would have easily been part of a topic that allowed sources.

There is stuff I could have posted that would have fueled discussion and maybe taken the topic onto working out some new ground, that didn't get covered.

I appreciated Karchita sharing her volcano vacation photos, but I didn't include those posts as informative to me because I've been expecting a Cerro Negro volcano surfing reward and been on top of the company's blogsite for over two months (not from missyae, from a friend who's awesome at scouting location stuff), so as soon as I saw the preview I knew what that was about, and it was obviously the reward, not the challenge, so not too much to be said about that other than share the info about where it is and what they do for those who like location info (which I do).

This last week made it very evident that it doesn't work for everyone to ride on the same bus when you're going different directions. Obviously the bus made one group of people happy, but it left me feeling emotionally drained with this board. One problem with being in my position is that the people who don't participate in source spoilers cannot possibly appreciate how much goes into it; also they don't know where the spoilers leave off, what is still a mystery. They get caught up in discussing stuff that is already known by lots of people, so it is not interesting.

Imagine sitting in with a group this last week that was discussing whether there would be a merge and whether Alina or Marty would win. You're sitting there knowing that the merge is over, and both of them already got voted off, but you're not allowed to ruin the group fun by pointing that out. Would you really enjoy joining that discussion? That's how it was for me.

I would like to have a regular vidcaps topic where we can bring in all pertinent knowledge. No one needs to spam the Final 3, but some known pertinent future events should be allowed -- for example known alliances that form.