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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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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.
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.
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.
No. People who don't want to get spoiled don't read the white font the first time through. After they've finally seen the show, or read the comic, then they have to decide whether to go back, and see what everybody said. It's an easy thing to do a couple days later in Jossverse, much less so in Natter.
What about repurposing Boxed Set as a General TV thread?
As it is I left boxed set when it was created because the discussion was just too diluted. I was following the Stargate discussion in the old Due South thread but when it all got lumped together it was just too much trying to weed out the discussion that I was trying to follow and I ended up dropping the thread. I think making it a General TV thread will only make that worse.
I will say that I never go back and read whitefont in Natter. It's just too hard and the posts are too far apart. I probably would do it in Movies, if a movie had just come out.
However, I've never had the impression that people asking questions that had been previously addressed was more than a passing irritation. I'm pretty sure that I have been guilty of that from time to time, so I hope it hasn't been perceived as rude.
As it stands, Smallville talk has dwindled to a lower level in Boxed Set, but still jumps on show nights. Stargate has a weekly jump for new eps, too. Farscape will likely get a boost what with The Peacekeeper Wars on October 17, and Due South discussion is, sadly, nearly non-existant.
Adding Lost to the thread will give it some more traffic, yet I believe it will not overwhelm the other shows. If it doesn't work, we could split it off to it's own thread at a later date.
I admit I would find it useful, so I've got a selfish motive in here, too.
On the whole though, I could also see a new thread as a possibility.
However, I've never had the impression that people asking questions that had been previously addressed was more than a passing irritation.
I think that, like most things, someone is always bound to find it irritating. But unless someone specifically requests that people don't ask questions that have been asked before, and can explain how asking such questions is detrimental to the board, I don't see anything wrong with it.
To me it doesn't seem as if there has been more Lost discussion/white font than we've had with Alias or OC. I don't feel that any shows are overwhelming the thread, so I'm good with keeping it in Natter like we've been doing. And at this point I'm not likely to follow discussion of Lost or Joan or any other show to another thread. </ 2ยข >
How did people feel last year, when Natter was the home of whitefont for 24, The O.C., Alias, Survivor, and Joan of Arcadia? Will adding Lost, Veronica Mars, and Jack & Bobby really add that much more?
Even NAFDA, I feel like a General TV thread would be nothing but whitefont, which I personally find really freaking annoying to read. In Natter, the whitefonted TV talk is interspersed with other discussion, so it's not so bad.
My selfish motivation is this: I don't have time to regularly follow chat threads right now, let alone go back from a day or two later to see what people said about any specific TV show. (It would surprise me if I'm alone in that.) And honestly, I miss talking TV with y'all.
I can't promise I would participate in an O.C. or Lost thread, but I would at least try to. I don't like the idea of a general TV thread, either as a repurposed Boxed Set or as a new thread, because it would just be relocating the whitefonting issue for little gain. (I'm one of those who finds it annoying to read, more annoying to scroll past in large blocks.)
Could we do a nonbinding poll, just to see what shows there's enough interest in? That would at least give us some idea of what type of thread growth we'd be talking about.