Yeah, I agree that a general purpose TV thread would have to follow the same rules as in Natter. I do like the idea of the poll just to see if there's any shows that people really want to talk about in more detail than Natter really allows.
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Bureaucracy 3: Oh, so now you want to be part of the SOLUTION?
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
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DXMachina - Oct 03, 2004 10:55:04 am PDT #2311 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
DebetEsse - Oct 03, 2004 11:37:52 am PDT #2312 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Maybe (just thinking out loud), it might be better to group shows into a couple/few threads, rather than one big tv thread. I'm not rightly sure what goes well together, but it seems like that would be easier to manage, as readers, unless there are basically only going to be postings about a show on the night of and day after, but, for Lost, at least, that doesn't currently look to be the case.
But, yeah, a "what are we watching" poll is, I think, a good first step.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 03, 2004 12:08:31 pm PDT #2313 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Just as a benchmark, for the past week and a half I've been spending more time at TwoP's Lost forums than I have among the entirety of Buffista threads. If there are more than a few people who are likewise enthralled it might be worth at least adding it to Boxed Set, if not giving it its own NAFDA thread.
Katie M - Oct 03, 2004 12:26:14 pm PDT #2314 of 10001
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
(I'm not sure how close to done the Deathmatches are)
We've got to finish Spike and do Wesley and Angel, then we're done.
DCJensen - Oct 03, 2004 1:13:20 pm PDT #2315 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
I had posted this earlier in BaBB, I'm moving it here:
I guess the other reason I proposed adding Lost to the SG-1/Smallville/Stargate/Farscape thread, was because there is a great deal of whitefonting and discussion in Natter, and not everyone wants to wade through Natter to discuss the show. Having it's own or a shared thread seems like a good thing, as the interest is growing.
Michele T. - Oct 03, 2004 2:14:49 pm PDT #2316 of 10001
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
One big problem with whitefonting that I've noticed in the Other Media thread is that people seem less willing to go back and read through whitefonted discussions than they do to just, say, wait a week and catch up on the discussion. So basic questions get asked and answered multiple times.
Also, I find the "let me whitefont only half the words here" way of whitefonting really hard to look at if I'm not selecting the post to read.
Polter-Cow - Oct 03, 2004 2:20:17 pm PDT #2317 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
What about repurposing Boxed Set as a General TV thread? I don't know how that thread came about, but it seems weird to create a new thread for non-BS shows. What does designate a show as appropriate for Boxed Set? I've seen Sports Night talk in there before, which is nowhere near the same niche as Smallville, Farscape, and Stargate.
DXMachina - Oct 03, 2004 2:20:20 pm PDT #2318 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
One big problem with whitefonting that I've noticed in the Other Media thread is that people seem less willing to go back and read through whitefonted discussions than they do to just, say, wait a week and catch up on the discussion. So basic questions get asked and answered multiple times.
It depends. I'll go back in Jossverse because you're generally only talking about 50 or 100 posts at most. OTOH, if I had to do that in Natter, you're right. I'd never bother.
DXMachina - Oct 03, 2004 2:23:59 pm PDT #2319 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
What about repurposing Boxed Set as a General TV thread?
The thread came about because we combined what had been separate Farscape, Smallville, and Due South threads. Stargate wound up in there because it had been in the Due South thread.
I'd really be against Boxed Set becoming the general purpose thread.
Polter-Cow - Oct 03, 2004 2:26:30 pm PDT #2320 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
One big problem with whitefonting that I've noticed in the Other Media thread is that people seem less willing to go back and read through whitefonted discussions than they do to just, say, wait a week and catch up on the discussion.
Thing is, we don't have a 15-page/15-day rule here. People skip all the time. I'm not seeing the distinction between whitefonted discussion and non-whitefonted discussion. Do people really choose whether it's worth it to go back and read a discussion based on the color of the text? Man, that's so fontist.