I still don't understand the problem with seeing what people want before we decide whether it's even worth proposing, never mind actually proposing.

I don't see why we need a formal proposal to discuss the many possible options. Me thinks lightbulbs should be open for discussing the options.

What those three said.

There are people here who don't discuss TV period. There are people here who get their TV discussion fix in fora dedicated to that, that provide an infrastructure I don't think we'd even attempt.

Pants lengths? Cutlery traditions? Get more traffic than The OC, love it as I do. We'll be just fine without branching into an insanity-making field of dictating complex spoiler rules and genre definitions.

AY! I remembered.

I'm finding general interest threads as generally uninteresting to me. So I wouldn't get much use out of one.

Pants lengths? Cutlery traditions? Get more traffic than The OC, love it as I do.

Bahahaha... it's sad. But oh so true.

Would it be out of line to propose a "Where do we go from here?" thread, so that B'acy is left for things bureaucratic, but we don't have to start proposing new threads willy nilly? Also, so the discussion won't get lost in a sea of natter?

Just a thought.

But where we go from here is bureaucratic.

Plus another thread in which I'll be tempted to navel gaze.

shudder.

No thank you.

But where we go from here is bureaucratic.

There just seemed to be objections from using this thread for this discussion. Ones I don't share, btw. I think this is EXACTLY where this has to take place. But I thought I'd ask, in case someone thought it was a good idea.

IOW, not proposing anything.

There just seemed to be objections from using this thread for this discussion

I think I was most of the objecting voice, and I wasn't objecting to this -- I was objecting to using this thread as a place to meta-discuss TV.

I was objecting to using this thread as a place to meta-discuss TV.

Ah, gotchya, and, yeah, that's valid objection. Although there may end up being some meta-discuss in the "who are we now".

I'm sincerely tempted to NOT try to steer where we go next, for many of the reasons stated above. The community will grow and change with time. We can't know in advance if Joss's run on the X-Men will lead to an efflorescence of Marvel-verse love on the boards, or Tim's next show will be wildly reviled, or what. We can still talk about Angel and Buffy in repeats -- God knows, we get traffic still, and the other threads will happen as they happen.

I'm wary of adding other TV show specific threads in no small part because the community hasn't formed around a consensus around those shows. The Smallville discussion, for example, was once positive. Now, as someone upthread noted, it's overwhelmingly negative, to the point where when I enjoy an episode, b.org is the LAST place I would go to post about it.

Even during Buffy S6, when there was a vocal group of people posting every week to say how much they hated the show now, there was a core of people who enjoyed the show, because that was what brought everyone here. SpyDaddy and Jack Bauer and Seth are not what brought people here, and if there's a small vocal group of people who hate S2 of The O.C., they may be enough of a plurality of the people discussing The O.C. to grind discussion of that show to a halt too. I'd rather not set up a place that encourages O.C.-hating if that happens -- let the discussion just die quietly.

People right now are finding each other to talk about The O.C. when they want to, and it's working for them, as far as I can tell. I pretty much have kept to Spoilers, Music, and Other Media for months now, and that's working for me. The Buffyverse continues to exist, even if there's no new show-creation happening; there were Trek fans for decades between shows being happily Trekkie, too. Let's see how things go over the next couple of months, and see what we need when we get there.

I'm sincerely tempted to NOT try to steer where we go next,

Well this may be the consensus that comes out of the discussion (that is, just let things follow their course for now), but I don't think the discussion should be avoided. It's a little too "pay no attention to the elephant in the corner" for my comfort.