Heh. Okay, the "there are people in a thread I don't know" excuse is a piss poor reason for not going in a thread, I'll admit.

Also, I didn't mean to put that forward as a reason for or against any of the possible thread proposals we're hashing out here. Or if I did, that was pretty stupid, and I withdraw it.

I don't know, I've used the "people I don't know!" excuse lots of times in real life to get out of stuff.

(Sean, while I was reading that earlier post, it is wrong that I was sorta picturing you covered in green fur, living in a metal trash can?)

(Cindy, um, no. It's not wrong at all. That's exactly the mental image of me you should have had.)

Which I'd put with House, because of the medicalness, though I don't watch any other medical-ish shows.

Which means I pretty much won't be in that thread to discuss Bones because I don't watch House but have plans to, as such I won't in it.

Sigh.

Really? I mean, House is very episodic - I find that my tolerance (and recall) of spoilers is markedly different for shows like that than for shows with a sustained arc.

Yeah.

I get the cross-pollination position. And I think there's some merit to it.

But people who don't want to be spoiled for a particular show that's included in a bucket thread with a show they're watching and want to discuss? What do we do with them?

Bucket threads and cross pollination will not please everybody. Of course I know we're not going to please everybody anyway. This is why I also think there's some merit in deciding not to discuss TV at all any more -- the people who don't want a bucket thread system, or conversely the people who don't want single show threads, whichever one we pick, we're explicitly telling the other camp we don't discuss TV here, because the end result is the same for them. There are no threads for them to discuss what they want to discuss, with the people they want to discuss the show with.

That's the real problem in all of this. One way or another, there's going to be a portion of the board we're telling to go somewhere else for the discussion they want.

Well, we're never going to not discuss TV -- that's just silly. Also, we all know there's no way to please all of the people all of the time, which is why we have days of formal discussion on proposals and voting with a minimum participation level. As a group, we've decided that's the best way to make decisions. I don't know what the answer is, but I know that there's never going to be concensus about it.

Really? I mean, House is very episodic - I find that my tolerance (and recall) of spoilers is markedly different for shows like that than for shows with a sustained arc.

When it comes to shows and spoilers I tend to have a very long memory. As much as I'd like to be able to skim and then forget stuff that's just not how my brain works. I've not watched House so I don't know how episodic it is.

Short version of all of this seems to be that we have two types of folks here. Some like bucket threads and how that works, some like single show threads and how that works. Those two things seem pretty non-mixy to me. At the end of it all whichever camp has the majority will get the threads as they like it and the other camp won't. I don't see much of a way around it.

This is why I also think there's some merit in deciding not to discuss TV at all any more

Have you met us?

I'm fine with the current setup, but not discussing television would make me unhappy.

I don't watch the shows discussed in Natter. I'm a year behind on Dr. Who. I don't have premium channels and I'm not likely to. I like Supernatural, but in a rather distant, non-squeeing way. The board is unlikely to want to discuss L&O: CI, even though I'd like some discussion of it beyond "OMG. Vincent is so hottt!!!!" I just don't think we can be all things to all people.