Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-75.131.122.242-20131128084642/@comment-53539-20131225103756

Trouble is, it may be "fun" to the guys involved, but for the rest of the fandom it tends to be annoying. With every Vocaloid, and we're heading toward 60 of them, you get someone who tries to suggest an item. Its often random, out of the blue and spoken by someone with 0% influence on the fandom and barely any knowledge of how the items get to be items in the first place. :-/

For example, the wikia used to have a list here on its pages of items and suggested items.

Two things happened;
 * The list was an open invitation... People used it to put their ideas of what the items should be on it. This lead to a number of random edits with little actual proof of any item being established.
 * Secondly, people took the list as gospel. There were things on the list written by Vocaloid Otaku forums peeps and the like and items that didn't go through any process to be accepted, it was just decided and that was the end of it. Without the background established process of Internet Meme occurring, those items never got anywhere and were accepted but never used.  This lead to the idea that their items were "closed" and no further items should be attempted for this reason.

I'm not against the items idea myself, but I've been on the net since 1998/1999 and I've seen how memes work plenty of times by now. You've just got to let these things happen... :-/