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.

Oops.

The Inside eps that did air in the US - weren't they discussed inthread in blackfont?

Did they? I'm pretty sure it didn't all air, ita -- about 7 unaired episodes, which aired in the UK, which lead to online downloading.

Edit: I'm a dumbass who can't read.

Thread proliferation splinters the community - it's the main reason I tend to support "bucket" type threads like Boxed Set and Minearverse and oppose single-show threads (even for shows I watch).

Which is also why I'm in favor of broadening Premium, even if the details of how we do it will be tricky to hash out. Right now there are only 5 or 6 regular posters in there.

Personally, I would much prefer a bunch of individual show threads that are lower volume under the TV heading to any type of mixed show threads. I can't use Boxed Set since I want to buy the Eureka and Heroes DVDs and watch them all eventually and am spoilerphobic. I wish I could talk about BSG with everyone, but I can't without that spoiling myself. So yeah, you get cross-pollination with a thread with multiple shows, but you also lose anyone like me who can't keep up with every show in the thread. If it were whitefonted it wouldn't matter, but I know that's a PITA for watch 'n posts, which is a beloved Buffista tradition.

I haven't said anything to this point since I don't post in Boxed Set or Premium for precisely these reasons, but since we're now talking in general, I thought I'd pipe up.

Kristin is me. Maybe it's a Connecticut thing.

Single-show threads lose me too. Perversely, the reason I ever show up in VM or Lost is because I don't really care. Haven't been in Heroes.

Even though I almost never watch a show as it airs (I think I'm two weeks behind on everything at the moment) I'm more interested in moving toward more "bucket" threads than individual shows. I agree with Jessica that these are better for the community.

Okay y'all thanks for the responses. So here are my additional questions: isn't the community already splintered? If there is a group (perhaps sizeable) who can't follow the current bucket threads as they are currently configured, but want to talk about various shows, then their participation is limited. I definitely fall into this group. I only just recently started following Boxed Set again (maybe in the last month or two) because I realized (remembered!) that's where BSG was discussed and not Natter. I just cannot keep up with Natter at all and I lose discussions of tv shows in there.

Maybe exclusivity is important - and that people would prefer to have threads of folks who CAN follow multiple shows. I say this without irritation or accusation, just trying to get a sense of what people's aims are.

So I wonder now if maybe 2 additional threads should be added (perhaps independent of the current proposal being discussed): two threads for a narrow group/genre specific shows.