Also, just because ita (or anyone else) doesn't see the purpose behind a discussion doesn't mean it's not necessary or worth pursuing.

just because ita (or anyone else) doesn't see the purpose behind a discussion doesn't mean it's not necessary or worth pursuing.

WHATTHEHELL?

When did this happen?

There's a danger of becoming too concerned with the meta of this place at the expense of just enjoying ourselves.

What MFN said.

WHATTHEHELL?

When did this happen?

There's no reason to get into it.

There's no reason to get into it.

::discontinues topic::

See how good that feels?

Hmmm. Just read a lot of this thread. I have some thoughts.

I'm sort of a newbie here, but I'm totally captured by the buffista love, and intend to continue hanging out here, reading and occasionally posting in Natter, The Great Write Way, sometimes Movies, sometimes Fic, sometimes Minearverse, sometimes Bitches for a very long time. I don't think that we necessarily need to add new threads to maintain the community here.

The community will maintain itself, because it seems to have a sense of feeling all its own. For example, Polter-Cow joined only a little bit before I did, not very long ago at all, and yet he already seems to be a Buffista-in-good-standing just because of the way he sounds, writes, thinks, and behaves. He gets along with the people here, and I doubt he will disappear anytime soon, even if eventually all that's left is Natter. I've seen others that are clearly not Buffistas at heart - they make a few posts in a thread, testing out the waters, and either annoy and get annoyed right back by the community here or they lose interest because, being a community, we're not very focused. We are not purely a discussion forum, strictly business: we are a community, and, as a community, we will maintain ourselves. New members will find us by accident, but until they do, we can live without.

That said, I do like analyzing television shows. Well, certain television shows. Specifically (not that the example is important), I've been a big fan lately of analyzing Joan of Arcadia, due to my possibly unhealthy fascination with Protestant Christian theology. The thing is, having seen the way people in this community treat each other and discuss things, and the ease in which they do it in the format of this particular board (single threads, no sub-categories, very simple), I'm spoiled for that kind of discussion. I don't want to go discuss Joan at televisionwithoutpity or tvtome or t insert-any-other-board-here , where far too many people seem to have their brains turned off, most comments are of the JoanNAdam4Ever!!! type, and posting is a difficult task, because that frustrates me. And I know a perfectly good community of people who could probably provide me with excellent JoA commentary in the right situations: the buffistas. I hoped that Cindy's LiveJournal community would provide a replacement for a thread here, but I've discovered that LJ just isn't a good forum for discussion, not nearly as good as here, and not as much gets done as I would like.

I guess I'm leading to a question, here: how many interested Buffistas are enough Buffistas to make a new thread worthwhile? If ten commonly posting buffistas are interested in discussing Joan of Arcadia, even if that means each of them will post only once or twice a week in the thread for each new episode, so the thread gets 10-20 new posts a week, is that enough? If not, what makes it not worth it? What drawbacks does adding a thread have?

I can see a few possible such drawbacks. 1) Attracts people to the board googling "Joan of Arcadia discussion," or whatever, making possibly lots of new members who may change the community feel through their presence. 2) Makes the home page hard to read (though subscriptions+message center help a lot). 3) Technical issues, bandwidth, server power, and whatnot. 4) People who only enter post in the discussion boards, splintering the community.

Which of these are we worried about? And why?

Who maintains the list of Buffista mailing addresses? 'Cuz they need my new work address.

tom - I'll need that for the music swap list and any possible care packages you may need.

msbelle, insent.

Since the map thingy seems to be running on its own fairly well, should I put it up in Press, so that the non-Natterino, non-BBaBB people can find it?