Brainstorm

[Excited Penguin]

You keep saying that you're not trying to control the thread, but on nearly every page there are examples of you talking about how you envisioned the thread going. Why say that?

 I think the better question is, why not say that?

I think you are getting this whole thing totally wrong. Let me start over.

This thread is meant for discussion/brainstorming various ideas. How or what you talk about is not for me to tell you, although as OP, I do have that privilege(something which is universally accepted elsewhere on the forums).
Now that we've got that handled, my role as OP is over. Now I'm just a regular poster. I post the first question. A discussion begins. Someone makes fun of me. I tell them to stay on topic, as a fellow poster, not as anyone else.