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 really like the bucket threads, for the reasons that Jessica and others have stated -- it fosters more of a sense of community and helps spread the fannish love of certain shows to people who haven't given them a chance yet. I'm also in favor of the occasional single-show thread for a show with a demonstrably large following and a large volume of discussion, but I think for the shows that generate less discussion, having a few bucket threads would work really well for me.
What Kate, and others, said. Don't want the too big bucket, don't like the too small bucket, want buckets just the right size. That would be the tricky part.
Don't you think certain shows will generate talk and certain ones won't?
We
can
talk about any show in Natter. Only some shows generate significant talk there, though. A TV-focused thread will be different (and I think better), than TV-talk-in-Natter, in that we won't have to wade through politics, religion, cats, diets, tax returns, and shoe shopping to find the talk.
Still, I think some shows will catch on, and some won't -- just the way some shows get a lot of talk in Boxed Set and others don't.
Don't want the too big bucket, don't like the too small bucket, want buckets just the right size.
Ah ha. The Goldilocks thread.
I think Cindy's right, that the bucket won't be too big. Should we attempt to name what shows already attract discussion to some degree? Aside from shows that are already in their own threads, the dramas I can think of are:
House
24
The Unit
Without a Trace
Grey's Anatomy
Friday Night Lights
CSI
Numbers
Hustle
And then the shows either in Premium or proposed to be added to Premium:
Deadwood
Sopranos
The Wire
Dexter
The Tudors
Big Love
The Riches
The Shield
Rescue Me
People talk Jericho here and there, too.
I'd also like to talk about Bones somewhere.
2nd on the Bones discussion with ND.
edit: Which I'd put with House, because of the medicalness, though I don't watch any other medical-ish shows.
I think there tends to be some The Closer talk too, although that is on hiatus right now.
We could open threads on a trial basis from now until the end of May. Then we could close them, and talk about what worked and what didn't, and decide where we go from there.
That'd make a whole lotta work for future archiving and sorting, is my first reaction.
