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.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
shows released on DVD that had the majority of their episodes unaired, whitefont shall be used in the show threads for a period of
Acutally, for showthreads, I'd say hell no, because show threads are NAFDA. I don't know what the policy is, but for SHOW THREADS? If it has been "aired" (and with DVDs, I'd assume aired meant released) then NAFDA applies, or do I have that completely wrong?
Also, I'm one for simplicity rather than making things increasingly complex. If I haven't finished watching something on DVD (like Wonderfalls or Firefly) than the onus should be on me to avoid the show thread, not the other way around.
I realize I might be in the minority on this one.
ETA
I had to go look to make sure I had NAFDA right. NAFDA means free to discuss what has been aired, right?
I think we do some courtesy white-fonting for the first couple of weeks in the show thread for things that were largely unaired, and I think that's a great idea. But beyond that, I don't see a need to do anything else. Besides, I don't really think this issue is going to come up again anytime soon, so I'm not sure I see where the big problem is.
If it has been "aired" (and with DVDs, I'd assume aired meant released) then NAFDA applies, or do I have that compeltely wrong?
I'm talking about the time period right after the DVDs are released - we just said that for Wonderfalls we were going to use whitefont for 3 or 4 weeks, I misremember which.
Are people not doing that, aside from the occasional slip-up?
No, they are - I'm just being anal - I know it won't come up again for a while (if ever). It would just be nice to have it in there so we wouldn't have to hunt through Bureau or ask in the thread when it's OK to post.
Right, Brenda, it's a courtesy thing. But according to NAFDA, that's all it was, a courtesy thing. I'm a big user of whitefont, but I don't expect people to do it for me in NAFDA places.
The Firefly DVD release had an ad hoc blackfont delay time in the thread itself, to give people a chance to actually watch.
The thread had other discussion happening, though, and the spoiler thread with UK discussion.
Yeah, I recall the Firefly spoiler thread went from spoilers no problem to ...we have to white font spoilers for unaired eps and that confused the hell out of me. But that's because I wasn't reading Bureaucracy at all. Now that I'm reading this thread, I understand buffistas.
Now that I'm reading this thread, I understand buffistas.
It's a sad, sad, didactic slide down this particular rabbit hole.
