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
I guess I'm not sure what your position is either, ita, aside from a need for bright lines.
My position is always a need for bright lines. How I'd vote on a proposal with bright lines varies. How I'd agitate during discussion of one without does not.
I'm not sure that invalidates my points.
Then I'm not sure what your point was either. Either Boxed Set has bright lines, or it doesn't. If the descriptions don't, I want them altered to reflect what I see as a fairly standard category.
However, I consider bright lines clearly existing, and want that reality made clear itself.
If these bright lines
don't
exist, as per your post, I want to work out what's fuzzy and clear that up posthaste.
The way I see it, from my often-lurking-occasionally-posting-fairly-newbie point of view, is that Boxed Set == sci-fi (BSG etc), Lost VM and Heroes work great as they (mostly) have the traffic. (Plus I'm able to ignore Heroes as I'm behind). I do skip some of Boxed Set as it's shows I don't watch (and don't want to be spoiled), but people are good with white font. From an international point of view I'd be confused about what's on FX, because I don't actually know. But I am presuming the focus is for US users, since that's likely 95% of people here.
I'm not sure if this one needs raising or not, but with Drive starting on Sunday on FOX but seemingly airing two days before on CTV, I'm wondering what the policy will be on that one, as I'd imagine there's people who will see it on air and aheming who want to discuss. Whitefont in Minearverse?
Whitefont in Minearverse?
Hmm. Inside got non-whitefont in Minearverse, right? Wonderfalls its own thread.
It is definitely where the discussion belongs, unless a dedicated thread is created. But how has never been discussed, I think.
There's the Un-American thread. That's still around, right?
But if people who ahem/see it early want a thread to discuss it in, I'd be fine with whitefont in Minearverse.
I think Inside and Wonderfalls were a different situation because they weren't going to be aired in the US, whereas this is, to me, more like the Canadian airings of Stargate or, in days of yore, Buffy, so, if it's in here, I'm saying whitefont, but UnAm would also work.
Woops - somehow my eyes had never seen UnAm. Rubbish eyes.
they weren't going to be aired in the US
The Inside eps that
did
air in the US - weren't they discussed inthread in blackfont?
UnAmerican doesn't solve someone wanting to discuss non-Drive Timmishness, though, does it?
Question: what is the problem with having additional threads? More threads for individual shows and/or more groups?
What is the problem with thread proliferation? Is it a technical issue? Can the software and hosting site support it?
Speaking socially, imagine if all the SFF shows had their own threads. Supernatural fannishness might have grown slower, for one. Cross-pollination, which is a cool thing about group threads, would be harder.