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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.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
What about just taking out the "in" and modifying the slug, so it's:
The Jossverse - Other Media
Discussion of Buffy, Angel and other comics, graphic novels, and more.
Joss is a huge comic fan, writes other comics, reads them, loves them. They in...
I'll shut up, because I am never in there (although I've figured on that changing when Season 8 comes out) and I'm just anti-change to the amount of ridiculous.
I do recall an issue coming up with the fact that "Jossverse in Other Media" doesn't have comic books in the title. Somebody came into Bureaucracy once (in this thread, in fact, #978) and was like, "We need a comic books thread!!"
So explicitizationocratizing is important.
It smacks of the same problem we've had with Boxed Set -- somebody was like, "Wow, you've been talking about Stargate in there for two years and I had no idea! What's with the completely misleading header?"
It all goes back to the thread proliferation wars of ought-whatever. We weren't going to have a comic book thread. We were going to keep a tight focus on the Jossverse and that thread was originally a catch all bucket for games and novelizations and the occasional comic. But now it really is the de facto comic thread and has been for some time. We should just say so.
Agreed - and all the more so since in addition to non-Jossy comics love, we really don't talk at all about games, novels, action figures, or other such there, whether it's Jossverse or otherwise.
Okay, how about: Juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer 2: Joss likes these things, right?
What? Have a thread name and slug that actually matches the content of the thread? That flys in the face of everything Buffista!
What? Have a thread name and slug that actually matches the content of the thread? That flys in the face of everything Buffista!
Our method seems to be somewhere between Jefferson laying out the paths at UVA by letting the students determine the best paths first, and a process of: Denial! Deniability. Shrug...
Well, how about Joss and Other Media: Shhhhhh! Don't tell anyone.
We have on occasion talked about games. IJS.
How about Other Media 2: It's Astounishing!
I don't know, I think calling it the comic book thread wouldn't be out of line. Like: Comics 2: I want a cape. Capes are so in right now. Which is an Overheard in New York line that still makes me giggle.
No capes!