Did we agree to do that? I hate white font in show threads.

If we're talking about a provisional/experimental thread, I think it would be best. More people would feel free to try it out, without fear of being spoiled for May Sweeps. If the experiment ends up showing us we do need some TV threads (either show specific or buckets) we may end up white fonting in some and not in others. But for the experiment, I think it would be kindest.

I hate whitefont, too, and like the idea of piloting a general drama, rather than general tv, thread.

That's a lot of whitefont

It's an awful lot of white font, but it's for a month - 6 weeks, until we have a better idea of what we want.

I think when you have a smaller number of shows in the bucket you have less of a need for whitefont. So, for me, it's an argument for smaller buckets instead of a general drama thread. It's the Goldilocks "just right" vibe.

Despite connie's enthusiasm I don't have a sense that procedurals would get a lot of discussion. Most of them aren't arc-y shows, are they?

I'd get a better experimental sense on doing a small bucket thread with no whitefont. I'd lean towards an FX thread then over a general drama thread.

Maybe a quick straw poll on that? FX or general?

As a test, then, OK

I think that our general whitefont rules should apply -- after the show airs on the east coast, use black font. Spoilers in spoiler thread.

I feel, though, that the entire thread will just be thousands and thousands of posts of nothing but whitefont. Which, while amusing conceptually, doesn't really do anything for me as someone who wants to post. I mean, how are you going to restrain the whitefont? What is going to be the amount of time elapsed before blackfont is allowed? The day after it aired? A week after it aired? It's one thing to be aware of the three-hour time difference, but who really goes into a thread knowing that something has aired on the east coast, knowing they will get spoiled for it airing on the west coast? I think waiting the three hours before entry is a common sense thing to do, especially when you know that x show is going to be the topic of discussion. It's different in Natter, where you're talking about thirty other things and you don't want to spoil people. In a show about the television that's airing, though, I think it's ridiculous.

Most of them aren't arc-y shows, are they?

House's arcs: Chase-and-Cameron, Cuddy's multi-season efforts to get pregnant, what-the-hell-is-House-up-to . . .

Bones' arcs: Booth-and-Bones--will they or won't they?, Brennan's Dad, what the hell happened to Brennan's Mom, Hodgins and Angela, . . .

I agree with Vortex. There's spoiler-phobia and then there's self-censorship. Maybe we should have a rule of thumb to identify the show you're about to talk about at the beginning of your post, sort of like all the posts that start with "BSG:" or "SPN:" in Boxed Set.