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. </ 2¢ >

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.

There doesn't seem to be a workable solution to the TV thread problem with the board in its current no-proliferation tech situation. I say better the devil we know. And as to adding just Lost to Boxed Set, I'd like to wait at least until sweeps to see if people stay with it; it might be a great pilot with lousy followup, you never know.

As to asking questions -- I don't think it's perceived as rude, Nonian, and I'm sorry if I gave you that impression. I do think that it's harder to go back and catch up in whitefonted text (based solely on a sample of one, here).

And, entirely off-topic here, I do think that the repetitive asking of questions that have already been answered, while not rude, is an excellent reason to consult a FAQ, or write one. I know that a large part of the reason we created the Buffista FAQ back on TT was that people got bored of explaining who Oz was, and why he looked like a gay possum in some episodes. Which is not to say that we weren't all newbies once! Just that newbiehood requires something of the newbie as much as it requires something of the community.

I think one solution to the asking redundant questions that requires whitefont to answer would be to request the info backchannel. IJS.

Idea: What if we did a (nonbinding) poll to see what shows people are watching/plan to watch/would like to discuss, and then started threads for the top 2-4 votegetters?

I'd rather not start a new thread for something until the discussion is already there to warrant it. The natter whitefont doesn't bother me, but Lyra Jane makes a good point about losing some discussion time because if you're not right there for it, it's passed you by.

Like ND (and for similar reasons), I'm very rarely in Boxed Set anymore, though if a show had to be added there I guess Lost would be the one.

There doesn't seem to be a workable solution to the TV thread problem with the board in its current no-proliferation tech situation.

Michele, I think DX just said we should be okay to add a thread or two because the Angel and Buffy traffic is so far down.

I'd rather not start a new thread for something until the discussion is already there to warrant it.

I think what people are saying is that they feel the discussion/desire to discuss is already there, at least on Lost.  

Michele, I think DX just said we should be okay to add a thread or two because the Angel and Buffy traffic is so far down.

Yeah, I did, but we still haven't heard from ita on the issue, so you probably ought to take my pronouncement with a grain of salt.

The worst of the problems we had were more to do with a bug in MySQL than the number of threads we have. Adding threads will add more traffic, but OTOH, traffic is down in the show threads that we do have, so it's possible we could trade off.