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
From the movie thread header:
Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
How are we going to handle
Serenity
discussion, once the movie is in broad release? Is non-white fonted discussion going to live permanently in the
Firefly Spoilers
thread?
Also, I have not used the movie thread much, on account of having no life. Is
"keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release"
followed in practice?
I was going to ask the same thing, Cindy.
In my opinion, it's going to be very difficult to keep the HSQ events separate from the general discussion of the film.
One option, which I'm not sure I like but I'll throw it out there, is to have all movie discussion in the FF Spoilers thread. Given that there won't be any new spoilers until and if a sequel gets underway, the FF Spoilers thread will be otherwise purposeless.
If we do that, then I'd suggest no spoilery film talk, not even whitefonted, in the main FF thread.
One option, which I'm not sure I like but I'll throw it out there, is to have all movie discussion in the FF Spoilers thread. Given that there won't be any new spoilers until and if a sequel gets underway, the FF Spoilers thread will be otherwise purposeless.
It seems to me that's the most workable, Jon. If enough other people feel the same way, we'd want to update the thread descriptions, and maybe the slugs, so anyone new who is looking for film talk doesn't accidentally nuke the regular FF thread with a HSQ spoiler.
I'd suggest no spoilery film talk, not even whitefonted, in the main FF thread.
For how long? A couple months?
Is the film being released world-wide at the same time? That is, will people like Nilly, billytea, and Madrigal be able to see it soon? What about the UK Buffistas? Continental Buffistas?
Release Info. It premiered in the UK a month ago.
However, having a show thread be NAFDA is SOP.
Is there a particular reason not to make the thread blackfont and just expect people who don't want to be spoiled unsub until they've seen it, as with aired tv?
Well, I mean, because ...
Okay, I got nothing.
Makes sense. There may be a sense of dislocation for people who want to talk about going to see the movie (as opposed to having seen it), but it does make sense.
How about, as a compromise for the main FF thread, two weeks of no spoilery movie talk, and then all-black-font-anything-goes?
For those two weeks, movie talk goes in the spoiler thread.
