Stompies, could you open the Voting Discussion thread for "What do I watch next"? Thanks.
Whatever happened to the still beating heart of a virgin? No one has any standards anymore.
Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Betsy HP - May 24, 2004 6:06:35 am PDT #708 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
amych - May 24, 2004 6:18:04 am PDT #709 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Stompies, could you open the Voting Discussion thread for "What do I watch next"? Thanks.
Done.
§ ita § - May 24, 2004 9:44:31 am PDT #710 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Betsy, are you offically taking the proposal off the table? Should the thread be closed?
Betsy HP - May 24, 2004 9:56:45 am PDT #711 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Yup. I officially withdraw the proposal.
Topic!Cindy - May 24, 2004 10:31:49 am PDT #712 of 10001
What is even happening?
Before we move on to proposing a gen'l TV thread or not, can we just have a discussion here, about our TV stuff, like
a) what are you watching/what do you plan to watch?
b) of those shows, which ones would you like a thread for?
c) should we keep our TV focus to sci-fi/fantasy, or just go where the watching is?
It may be that some shows don't need their own thread, just because of the kind of discussion they inspire. For instance, for me, I don't really care about having a thread for anything that doesn't have a serial element.
This discussion could hopefully serve the same purpose that Betsy's withdrawn proposal would have served, had it gone to vote and passed. But I don't know that it needs a thread, as much as we need to have the discussion, and it needs to happen in one spot.
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My stuff: I wouldn't mind a thread for either 24 or JoA, but I'm not sure if there's enough of an exisiting audience (made up of people who want to post about the show), for either one, to support it.
Wolfram - May 24, 2004 10:31:49 am PDT #713 of 10001
Visilurking
From Lightbulb:
Out of curiosity, am I the only one who thinks Boxed Set doesn't work very much for them as a user?
No, although it sounds like it's for different reasons than yours -- I stopped reading boxed set when the SV discussion devolved into nothing but "this show sucks", because the other shows discussed there don't interest me.
Just to put in my two cents, I also unsubbed from Boxed Set because I had no interest in discussing Farscape or SG1 and I found the SV discussion few and far between (probably because the former two shows are richer in depth, but I wouldn't know, not having watched them). I regret the loss of the SV thread since it was fun to pop in and snark. Then again, board not called Smallistas so it's not the biggest deal.
IOW, if we're just taking an informal poll Boxed Set doesn't work for me as a user either.
§ ita § - May 24, 2004 10:34:28 am PDT #714 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Don't you think that discussion more properly belongs ... well .. not here? You can make a proposal for a general TV thread and then have a finitely time-bounded discussion in Lightbulbs on those very topics.
Jessica - May 24, 2004 10:37:19 am PDT #715 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I unsubbed from Box Set because I don't watch Smallville or Stargate, and there's not enough Farscape discussion to make it worth my while. (I may re-sub when the miniseries airs.)
I like having general television natter in natter, where it is now. I'm not sure a general TV thread would "work" for me, for a number of reasons.
This discussion could hopefully serve the same purpose that Betsy's withdrawn proposal would have served, had it gone to vote and passed. But I don't know that it needs a thread, as much as we need to have the discussion, and it needs to happen in one spot.
Buy why should it be in here? If we're NOT talking about creating a new thread, what makes this not natter?
Lyra Jane - May 24, 2004 10:39:56 am PDT #716 of 10001
Up with the sun
Just throwing things out here...
How many TV threads do we think we want? I'd rather start knowing X new threads was the (bullshit consensus) limit and try to come up with the best way to use that X, than to have 45 show threads proposed and try to whittle down from that.
In the past, we haven't had more than three shows with their own thread at once. Does that model work? Or should we do three (or four, or two) with their own threads, plus another three (or whatever) for genres (i.e., reality, cop shows, soap operas)?
Also, I think we should do a poll to help decide what individual show threads would be included in the proposal, so we have the best sense of what people are watching.
amych - May 24, 2004 10:42:37 am PDT #717 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Ehh, I don't think we should have a proposal.
I don't want a referendum on Boxed Set - it works for the people there, and not for the people who don't go there.
As for new shows, all the polls and abstract projections in the world aren't going to do a thing for us. In the fall, either there will be some show that so many people love that there's an urge to give it a thread, or there won't.