The Voices in My Head

So, yeah, I’m out of Big Brother. It was fun while it lasted. I never expected to win, but I am kind of dissapointed that I didn’t even make the first cut from the 15.

Apparently the final total number of votes in the sim was around 1000 or so, which makes an average of 60 votes for each person. 60 votes for me would probably have guaranteed my place in the second week. Of the community groups I am in, one has 430 members, another 180 members. If even a tenth of these people had taken a few minutes to come and vote, I would still be in. It is a little dissapointing to see how little some people care.

• From something they said to me, I suspect one of the players may be a mole. This of course is standard practice by now in BB anyway, so its not too surprising. From other things I have seen, I suspect the final winner may already have been chosen by Endemol. You heard it here first; the winner has a connection with the Netherlands. That’s right; from the start I never expected to win the top prize.
• The whole event seems less organised than I had hoped. There is no real security in the sim, and it was griefed several times before they realised they can block visitors from running scripts.
• Endemol has apparently spent almost nothing promoting this event. Certainly not compared to the people still in the game. One player ran a full page advert in an online newspaper. Another was interviewed by one of the more popular podcasts on the net. A third appeared live on Dutch TV. That isn’t Big Brother except in name. It’s an Internet election campaign. Most of the players still in even have someone (or more than one person) acting as full-time campaign managers.
• A few of the people still in have used sex to persuade people to vote for them. Given the nature of SL, there wasn’t much to stop me rezzing a dancing pole, turning my avatar into a striper, and giving the punters a good show to persuade them to vote for me. But I have my pride at least, and I did not stoop to that.

I do of course have a few more things to say about this event, and I’d be happy to share them directly with BB, should they ask. But most of them wouldn’t be right to air on a blog until at least after the event is over.