I noticed this week there was a lot of "he's so gay" and I thought other irrelevant comments. I summarized in one comment and got flamed by a small group of posters.
I'm not so shy and I won't let people posting false information drive me off a thread. skate and kitten, and silent could have stopped at any time, as I had nothing more to say, except to respond to their personal attacks.
I suggest a chat thread for those in the inner sanctum who don't want to risk that someone who is not here to be their best bud will come in and say one of their posts didn't make sense.
Then I was accused of being a woman who is a Prince fan, because apparently I signed up at the wrong time. Foloowed to a call to mods to investigate me (you can see where that went). We'll I've been here much longer than most here, except you.
I will continue to point out when people who attack me do so with false information. However, if they don't address me, the war is over. I will respond to show opinion and post my own.
Best wishes and thanx for the civil post.
I'm not one to get involved in disputes between posters, but I will disagree that some of those comments are irrelevant.
American Idol is not, and has never been, a "singing contest", no matter how many times they try to say that.
It is a marketing competition, where the contestants are trying to "sell" themselves to a voting (and eventually music-buying) public. Singing well, of course, is a part of that -- a very important part -- but all aspects of the contestant's image matter. Only those with the "complete package" (or reasonably close to it) are going to do well, and it isn't always (or often) that the best actual singer wins.
So look, style, originality, and the ability to connect with the audience matter. A lot. A contestant who comes across as "so gay" has an image problem, and that's going to hurt them in the "marketing" aspect of the competition (and in their future singing career, if any) even if they are the best singer from a purely objective basis.