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Originally posted by thespecialist1:
Do I hear 'Emmy' anyone?

Yes. They ARE nominated for an Emmy. Or do you mean the cast?

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Originally posted by maxman:

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Originally posted by thespecialist1:
Do I hear 'Emmy' anyone?

Yes. They ARE nominated for an Emmy. Or do you mean the cast?

Since you emphasize *ARE*, I take it to mean that you think I wasn't aware that they are actually nominated.

If you notice, in my actual quote on the other page, I used a 'wink' at the end of my comment. Yes, I am fully aware that they are nominated, and in my opinion they will win the 61st Emmy awards in their category on September 20th -- even against Dirty Jobs and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

I'm not sure why Deadliest Catch has four nominations, though. Hope this time the number of nominations isn't a deciding factor.

DCFM, just to let you guys know, my Firefox browser just registered a virus or "threat" in the Science and Myth questions forum.

I believe I was on this forum quite a while ago as Sticks. It appears to be a user here

I live in England if you want to trace the IP address on that ID.

I tried three surviving email addresses I may have used to recover the password, but none of them worked. There is a forth email address, but that company pulled all emails and so it does not work.

If you want to PM me, I can give you all the other email addresses I tried in case the Sticks ID was mine.

Forget all that

It looks like I was always Stickings90, unless I had registered Sticks a long ago time in the past.

Could the moderators pm me if you want me to divulge the email addresses I may have used if Sticks was mine.

Sticks - You may be better served emailing the mods on this than posting it. The mods email can be found in the very first post of this thread.

how can i contact Adam i have a really funny video

I have been having problems even getting into this site with my Firefox browser. I had to switch back to Yahoo to get in. I would keep getting the same sort of error message that you would get if a moderator had deleted the page that you were looking for.

I've been getting those error messages for the last two nights (but it sounds like they're working on it).

http://community.discovery.com...76/m/8951933899/p/11

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The issue with getting onto the different forums has been reported and is being working on by Tech Support. Please feel free to email me at dcfanmod@comcast.net or Mod_Ivy@yahoo.com if you need to report other issues you are experiencing.

Thank you and again sorry for the inconvenience.

DCFM

Thanks Alanna. Even before this it was starting to take a long long time for the Post a Reply window to open, much faster on Yahoo for some reason. Overall I still prefer Firefox, but I guess until this is fixed I will be a Yahoo browser, at least here.

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Originally posted by mungo66:
how can i contact Adam i have a really funny video

The Mythbusters do not give out their emails. The best you can do is to post a link to the video and hope that someone brings it to his attention. Or if you have a Twitter account you can find Adam on there and try and post a link to it there.

Don't expect a reply to either though - Adam is a busy guy afterall.

Hey! My Firefox works again! Still slow to open the Reply window.

Yep, it happened last night too. Of course, I was trying to write reports and pulling an all-nighter, so it helped me focus

What does it take for a myth be put on Mythbusters? Also how do you know that it will be put on there, too?

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What does it take for a myth be put on Mythbusters?

Something that appears interesting and can be tested - both to be visually interesting on TV and isn't too dangerous/illegal ect. If you use find you might find a post that lists some of the things that the producers are looking for in ideas. I know they have been posted before, I just can't recall where.

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Also how do you know that it will be put on there, too?

You don't/won't until the basic episode descriptions come out, or the MB other wise give an indication as to what they are/have tested.

Even then they very, very rarely credit one individual with a show idea - it can be difficult to impossible to work out who really came up with a show idea, or who came up with it first. It is also quite often the case that while one person comes up with an idea, there are a whole other group of individuals who figure out how it could be tested or who otherwise provide information that is helpful in looking at if an idea has merit or practicality...or indeed even if it has been tested before elsewhere.

Example; I posted on another board the myth about 'excrement hitting the fan' around June. In an interview Adam and Jamie gave around August they stated that this was a myth they were going to be testing 'next week' (I think).

Now while my ego would like to take credit for a show idea - I hadn't run across this myth being posted before - I do not expect them to say 'This idea comes from Cybermortis'. In fact my head tells me that it is unlikely I was the first person to post the idea. Show history also tells me that even if I was the first with the idea I'm unlikely to get a mention.

So you do not need like a 1000 views on your posted myth or this many replies in general.

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What does it take for a myth be put on Mythbusters?

It has to be something the production team sees value in. If there's little point in doing a segment on it, it kind of defeats the purpose of being suggested as a "show idea".

Having said that, several myths on the show have come from message boards like this.

But, look around...

If you want to catch the researchers' eyes as they try to slog through the boards, you have to work with them. A thread titled "new myth" or "hey!" or "best idea ever" is more likely to just be bypassed.

The more information about the myth that is in the first post, the better. This includes references (although something other than Wikipedia is preferred for a source) for both the myth and any science behind it. Including possible testing methods goes a long way too.

The researchers just aren't going to keep checking back and see if something's been fleshed out... if someone comes up with decent sources and/or decent testing, but it's not until page 8, and the other 7 pages have been mostly irrelevant bickering, the researchers aren't likely to see it because they probably gave up on the thread ages ago.


And even if you do post something that catches their eye, that doesn't guarantee that it will make it to production and it doesn't guarantee that the idea came from you -- one good example was POAT -- the staff was considering the idea before it ever got posted here.

But yes, show ideas from fan message boards have made it to the show, but don't expect to get your name in the credits, and if you're not willing to "sell" your idea to the research team, don't really count on it being seen or considered.



Or, at least that's what the moderators and researchers used to say... perhaps DCFM has more current information from the production team.



(Edit: I apparently type way slower than Cybermortis )

No, the number of views and number of replies are rather irrelevant as to whether the researchers think it's a decent idea to pass along to the production team.

Hello,

Mythbusters’ researchers read posts throughout the forums. Many posts list the same ideas so no credit will likely be given to any one contributor. The Mythbusters are always looking for ideas that are new and interesting to viewers.

DCFM