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Praveen K. Gupta 13 Aug 2010

The FFC3 finalists have been short-listed, but, ..

My dear friends and fellow RCBians,

The names of final 21 people, who will be auditioning on the 16th for the coveted titles, were announced last evening. Ever since the result has come out, there has been pandemonium on the site. A lot of people have criticized the judgment and disagreed to the list of chosen people.

However, I would only like to bring to everyone's notice, the very basic reason for us to be here. We are here because we love RCB.

Contests are very lucrative and fiercely fought. Everyone wants to win and everyone believes in his/her superiority. Even I do. That said, it doesn't mean that winning or losing a contest should make a difference to our lives.

Last evening, one of the finalists said to me on the chat "I hope you still continue to be an RCB fan!"

I was an RCB fan before I joined this site and even if I have to move away from the fan club (though, I am sure I would never face such a situation), I shall still follow RCB.

In my belief, this fan club is a medium to get together, to share our common passion and to discuss things with other like-minded people. Our loyalty is to our team and the attractions on the website are just 'added attractions', not the central attraction for us.

The community managers are also human, they had scores of applications to deal with. Most of them were not upto the mark, but, they had to judge each one. It's not that I agree or feel happy about the short-list. I certainly don't.

However, it shouldn't mean that I create chaos or stop being an active member of the fan club. We are, but, one large group or you can say one large family. There are disagreements, arguments and minor tussles in all big groups and so is the case in this fan club.

If for any reason, A thinks that B is not loyal or good enough for something, let it be. Everyone is human and has his/her right to like or dislike people. Nobody is above human fallacies.

Let's continue the good work and not criticize the site management.

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@ Vignesh : :) anytime!

Wizardprince on 14 Aug 2010, 03:36 PM

@ Nidhi: :) I have run a social networking community as a moderator for a while so I guess the playing conditions remain more or less similar here too. Moreover, I think there can be an easier way to fulfill Holmes' request. The players might not be writing specifically to the site, however, if u get some of them to agree and then link their tweets to the site, then the fans can read them and be happy. What do u think on this?

Wizardprince on 14 Aug 2010, 03:33 PM

THis is absolutely true!!!! i am really ahppy to c that we r all jelling very well as one FAMILY!!! there must not be any differences between us or bad thoughts!!! WIZARD prince thanks fr this amazing post!!

vignesh-sridhar on 14 Aug 2010, 03:29 PM

Whoa WizardPrince, you really do understand how to this site works!! @Holmes, well there's a BIG CHANGE (hehe) coming on the site next month. I've asked the peeps designing the change to try to split 50%on cricket and 50% on fan club etc.

Re: players on site.... no can do buddy. Some are on Twitter.... but I don't think they have the time to be online... we've started by getting them involved at fan contests and during live chats during matches... let's see what more we can convince them to do :P I'll ask Robbie at FFC3 auditions if I get the chance mmkay?

nidhi@RCB on 14 Aug 2010, 10:59 AM

@niddhi- thats sounds better! Ya, i wont be overnight, i m not expecting immediate change. but just wished to know if steps wil b taken n m glad to get a positive response :) ....1 thing not answerd yet. Counld the RCB team respond regularly here? i dont see y they cant spare some min. That would realy get the fans excited!

HOLMES on 14 Aug 2010, 10:06 AM

@ Nidhi, It is true that cricket does get eclipsed, especially in the wake of something huge like FFC. However, as u just said, contests are a medium to attract fans and to publicize the site as a happening place. They also serve as a motivation and are good to keep the site lively. After the CLT20 gets done with, there will be some months of inaction for RCB and that's where cricket and cricket related contests are likely to take center stage.

Thanks for replying :)

Wizardprince on 14 Aug 2010, 01:34 AM

Dear Rakesh,

I strongly believe that the forum should be much more active and there should be more in terms of discussions etc. I guess, it is something that can develop only with the fan participation.

Wizardprince on 14 Aug 2010, 01:27 AM

Dear Holmes,

Nidhi has given an answer to you so I need not say anything in the matter. As I had said earlier, once you put a comment in response to my blog, it will be noticed by the site management.

Sherlock Nidhi is keeping an eye on all that happens here :)

Wizardprince on 14 Aug 2010, 01:25 AM

@HOLMES yes, we've heard lots of criticism about how cricket is being drowned once you we start throwing in contests... contests were a great way to bring people to the site and get them to know this Fan Club even existed... but now that we're huge, maybe it IS time to get back to the cricket and push the fan activities to their own corner of the site. will this change be made overnight? no, 'course not. we've way too much lined up until CLT20. will it change after CLT20? Yeah, I don't see any reason why it shouldn't.

nidhi@RCB on 14 Aug 2010, 01:09 AM

Yeah I do agree for certain extent that cricket is lacking here.. But most of them just read the things they want and move on without commenting.Even that is possible.. And its really great if the forum here turns into a FORUM like cricinfo, DIGIT, CHIP and other tech forums. In those forums, Even your small query will have n number of responses.

rakesh-katti2 on 13 Aug 2010, 09:35 PM