 Mark Burnett (II) (qv) wanted the Tribal Council to feel like it  was a ritual that had been going on for thousands of years. However,  some small features of the Tribal Council ceremony disappeared after  the first season. The gong that the Survivors would ring upon  entering or exiting the Tribal Council area was canned because it  was, in the words of host Jeff Probst (I) (qv), "corny." In one of  the early episodes of season 1, the Survivors passed around conch  shell and took turns talking. The person holding the shell would be  the one speaking, and when he or she was done, he or she would pass  the shell to the next person. Probst disapproved of this method of  moderating Tribal Council because he felt that he didnt have  anything to do other than sit and listen, and the conch shell was  never seen again after this episode.