At least they got some use out of the struggle to make a good sketch from it. I was listening to Kevin Smith saying how hard it was for him to get a TV show on the air, much harder than movies since when you do a movie, after the script and the budget for the film is approved they let you go do it a lot more. On a TV show they give you a lot more day-to-day interference about it.
So I guess it's no wonder that a lot of the things they had planned for Acceptable TV didn't pan out especially on the web site. It hasn't seemed to effect the show much since they haven't paid much attention to the trolls and mostly have only let their Channel 101 clique get videos on the show.
I don't blame them for that since what I was hoping for that people would give feedback and support each on how to make the videos better so they could get on TV. But I guess that was too much to expect from all those that flooded with lowest common denominator and treated everyone else with derision. Jack Nicholson was right when he said "You can't handle the Truth"
Apparently they can't handle the skills required for getting stuff broadcast on a TV network either, which is the sizable shame since it also bodes very badly for any form of direct democracy. As Morpheus said in the Matrix "You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it." the same is true of most of the status quo including the way TV shows are run. Even if they are encouraged to improve or insulted by how bad they are most would rather "...take the blue pill... and believe whatever you want to believe." since it's easier and more familiar
I would like to believe that it could get better but the evidence isn't there since the web site is flooded with nasty comments and flame wars that I could respond to in kind which was my first reaction but as Trinity said "you know that road, you know exactly where it ends. And I know that's not where you want to be." it gets way too tiring to be involved in them and never solves anything
Ken Wilber made an analogy to Wyatt Earp when he was in this exact situation with critics and said "It’s made worse by the fact that if you are perceived, rightly or wrongly, as being the leading figure in a field—as its Wyatt Earp—then every punk with a pistol comes gun-slinging for your ass." and ever since that interview (which at first I was flattered by, but after seeing who they interviewed next, I don't think it was an honor) put me at the top of the profiles it seem to make me a target for it.
I don't think that his solution of challenging the members to rise above the petty ego would work or to have them follow any of the Road Rules he suggested for the Integral Institute web site since their are a lot other factors at work at Acceptable TV. It's not just a case of the choice the Oracle gave "You just have to make up you on damned mind to either accept what I'm going to tell you, or reject it." because even if all the members did straighten out and began to work together, I doubt they would let the worst videos be deleted. It doesn't take a conspiracy theory to know that since if you take Deep Throat's advice and "Follow the Money"
you can find enough evidence to prove that they have a vested interest in keeping the traffic from them. They are helping Revver since the ads from them are on all the Revver videos not just the ones for Acceptable TV so Revver is using the revenue generated by them which benefits both VH1 and Amp'd Mobile by getting the ads seen by more people. More traffic and more ads seen by more people is more profit for them because it gets the show and their products seen more. It's very simplistic to say that Amp'd Mobile isn't benefiting from having Acceptable TV ads on all Revver videos and that VH1 doesn't get more viewers or ad revenues from it.
It might've been their intention to pay the members for their vides at first, but I don't think they've figured out how to do it with the way that Revver set it up, they're getting all the revenue from it. I don't know if Acceptable TV has access to those accounts but that certainly could be one reason why they can't delete them easily and one reason why Revver wants to keep them around. Sending the email to support@acceptabletv sure hasn't done anything since the revised versions of Conjoiners, Speed Demons are still there and Chapter 1 hasn't been deleted when it was replaced by Episode 1 so that's enough evidence that either Acceptable TV doesn't want to delete them or Revver won't let them.
I can hope that things will get better at Acceptable but I don't really expect any change in the status quo since there isn't enough economic incentive for the producers. It works fine as it is to ignore the drama on the site since they've had a lot of practice. The message boards on the VH1 site are a whole lot worseI'll believe it only when there is enough evidence to support it as it stands there isn't much besides more are following the time limit, but the larger percentage are still just as bad.
It's good to be at the top since the show goes on regardless, it's only the unknown masses trying to get their 15 mins that get ignored, rightly or wrongly so, since whatever promises were made by the premise of the show the vast majority of the members have proved they aren't ready handle the challenge so it's better that producers do the show without them.
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