I am very much against opening ANY threads, temporary or not, by "consensus". There's a reason we devoted much blood, sweat and tears into setting up our current voting system. Consensuses (consensi?) here are by their nature "bullshit".

And now I have to leave work, so I won't be able to check in for an hour or so.

I also think it should be voted on. And I have a problem with this:

discussion of new episodes during the discovery period would be in white fonted for one week after the U.S. airing.

Because I think it's unreasonable to wait a week for blackfont. When it airs, or what's the point?

Please, can we vote? It seems obvious at this point that we have a lot to discuss about these potential threads and doing the Llightbulb dance of limited time discussion followed by voting seems like a good idea to me. I know that I, for one, am completely confused by the discussion thus far.

I think I would tend to agree with you SA, if these were not temporary threads, if they were dedicated to one particular show, and if they were for any purpose other than discovery. But they're not.

The object of the discovery period is to get as many of us participating as possible, to see what works for most of us. More than a few Buffistas are both spoiler averse and don't get to watch shows as they air. I want don't want bon bon to be afraid to come in to talk about this week's episode of Drama Y, just because she hasn't yet watched Drama X.

If we can't compromise on stuff while we're trying to figure out what works, nothing is ever going to work.

I'd like to vote on Cindy's proposal, with the whitefont, one v. three, and any details on the specific content of the thread(s) hammered out in Lightbulbs.

I appreciate the urge to just do something, and I do chafe at our system a bit sometimes, but I really don't think we can do that.

I just think it's silly to vote on something that is pre-proposal and pre-vote research. That said, I don't care about voting. I just think it's dumb.

I like discovery threads that are clearly marked as temporary.

If we can't compromise on stuff while we're trying to figure out what works, nothing is ever going to work.

I guess my thing is that I don't see it working. But I'm game to give it a try. It's been thirded, yes? So on to Lightbulbs?

They have to actually *propose* the creation of the thread (or threads), though. A person can't just list threads they'd like to see, and wait for the stompies to create them.

Somebody has now, yes. There's also been about 2 or 3 proposals for bucket threads. The problem is it's still in the discussion phases, so telling people they must propose creation right now doesn't work, I think, because there's no voting actually happening on anything.

I think voting isn't dumb, especially with the factions at play. If the proposal is changed from consensus to vote, I would second it.