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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


§ ita § - Apr 08, 2007 10:38:50 am PDT #8843 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.


Kevin - Apr 08, 2007 10:41:18 am PDT #8844 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.

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.


Kevin - Apr 08, 2007 10:50:01 am PDT #8845 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.

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?


§ ita § - Apr 08, 2007 10:51:54 am PDT #8846 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.


Dana - Apr 08, 2007 10:53:04 am PDT #8847 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

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.


DebetEsse - Apr 08, 2007 10:55:54 am PDT #8848 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.

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.


Kevin - Apr 08, 2007 10:58:01 am PDT #8849 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.

Woops - somehow my eyes had never seen UnAm. Rubbish eyes.


§ ita § - Apr 08, 2007 11:12:12 am PDT #8850 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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?


le nubian - Apr 08, 2007 11:12:55 am PDT #8851 of 10001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

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?


§ ita § - Apr 08, 2007 11:17:22 am PDT #8852 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.