Suggestions

Posted by GregF on
Some of you may have read that BZP member Nuhrii the Metruan made some suggestions regarding the name of the Mangai/Mangaia which I really liked and told him could be official.

Ever since, I am getting buried in PMs from other people trying to find other uses for existing names or "explain" other storyline things, in hopes of getting to say they came up with something official too.

I appreciate the enthusiasm, but I really don't have the time for this. Having to go through these suggestion PMs is taking time away from answering questions, not to mention working on 2009 story bible and 2010 story summary. Everything in BIONICLE does not need an extensive explanation and every term does not need to be used multiple times -- and even if they did, I have no room to work any of it into story at this late date.

So while I praise you for your imagination, I need you guys to cool it. I'm not soliciting suggestions for this stuff right now and I don't really have time to evaluate them fairly.

Greg
Grey Snow
Original#1
I don't see how people come up with these ideas, Vahki makes some sense, but still, what else is there?
Illuminatus
Original#2
This was to be expected. Well, hopefully once all of this cools down there will be time and room to accept at least a couple more worthy suggestions.
~Riku~
Original#3
Well, ever since he made two things official, I knew this would happen, even though I hoped it wouldn't.
~ShadowBolt~
Original#4
Ditto. Actually taking your time and waiting is more likely to get your suggestion approved then sending it in while other people are doing so is more effective.

So GregF, do you regret approving Nuhrii's theory or not? :P

~SB~
Nuhrii the Metruan
Original#5
Yeah, after some hours I noticed what was going on (after some members brought it to my attention, so thanks) and added just what Greg said to the opening post in my topic and to the BS01 Expanded Universe page. Sad to see that many members didn't listen.

And I hope he doesn't regret it.

NtM
GregF
Original#6
No, I don't regret it at all.

Nuhrii's suggestion kind of reminded me of the old "No-Prize" thing Marvel used to do decades ago. They challenged their readers -- instead of complaining about mistakes in comics, they asked the readers to come up with reasons why the things they noted WEREN'T mistakes.

In this case, the connection between Mangaia and Mangai was not an error on our part, but it was something that begged for an explanation, and I thought Nuhrii came up with a very plausible and artful one.

And it's true that when I get these things not in an avalanche, and have time to read them and consider them, sometimes I can say, "Hey, makes sense, let's do it." But when I get 15 of them in a day, it gets to be a little much -- it stops being someone wanting to just help explain something away and becomes about just wanting to be able to say you added something to the universe. Both are legit reasons to do this, but I prefer the former to the latter.

Greg