Personally, I like the experimental threads the way they are. I'm mostly in drama, and I don't find any one show dominating, nor do I really see any show with enough conversation to really keep a thread going. I'd rather not have white font, but don't care enough to push strongly on that front, especially since I, too, have noticed people missing that I would otherwise expect to see.

I haven't spent much time in the other experimentals, so I don't have a good feel for how they're working, but I love the effect on Natter and Bitches. I can sort of, kind of keep up now. And even when I'm behind, I like having a better feel for whether to skip or slog.

Or, in short: Yeah Experimentals! Go Experimentals! Or rather, Stay Experimentals!

And I dislike the experimentals because the TV discussion where I wouldn't get spoiled has dwindled down to nothing. So I have less TV to talk about.

I just wanted to clarify that of course I know about SPN. I was referring to the experimental threads only.

ita is me. I am pretty spoiler averse and the one show I want to discuss, even though I'm time shifted, I actually can't discuss. And of the two times I brought it up in Natter, I was gently reminded that they were talking about it in another thread, so take it there.

I, too, love the experimental threads. At least, the ones I frequent: Network Drama and Non-fiction. They work well for me because I don't have to skim over Natterinos chatting a million miles a second. I'm fortunate in being on the coast that gets shows first and don't have to skim over other folks squeeing. I can see instituting a 24 hour whitefont so that West Coasters and time delay watchers can have a bit of a breather to get caught up.

And of the two times I brought it up in Natter, I was gently reminded that they were talking about it in another thread, so take it there.

Heh. Guess I shouldn't have just asked a CSI quesiton in Natter then, huh? Oh, well. But I thought we weren't going to try to shoo TV talk out of Natter, even with the Experimental threads. Maybe I'm just imagining discussion. I do that from time to time.

Nope, Jen, that's what I thought too. But it happens anyway (the shooing, I mean).

eta In reality, it doesn't matter if the thread serves my tv viewing needs. I don't really need to discuss tv and my inability to do so in natter does not diminish my enjoyment of natter nor of the show. So I guess if it serves everyone else's needs, more power to you all.

And of the two times I brought it up in Natter, I was gently reminded that they were talking about it in another thread, so take it there.

Were you? I've seen some TV talk in Natter and was glad to see it. If we do keep one or more of the threads, or develop new ones, I'd like Natter to still be a free-for-all zone. Which isn't to say that Natterers shouldn't point people who might not know to the other areas just so they know where to find more discussion.

I subbed to all four at first. Dropped one, and then another - one I kind of expected to, the other I didn't. It just wasn't doing it for me, quite. But I was still glad to have somewhere to go for the occasional post. The two I've kept, I really like, and I'd hate to lose.

That said, I don't see any shows in those (for me, it's Network Drama and Non-fiction) that I think could sustain their own thread. Yet. But I very much like the threads as they stand.

The whitefont question could stand to be revisited, I guess. I'm fine how they are, but I'd be happy to open the discussion again if others aren't.

(That said, it does seem like the most whitefonty of the four is lagging in comparison. But I haven't followed the discussion within enough to know if it's an issue or not.)

I don't know that the threads are "working," really. I mean, depending on what the goal was, I guess. There's not really any in-depth discussion, and I don't know that there's all that much more discussion of these various shows. Now, I can see it working for people who don't want to deal with Natter, because it's concentrated in one place (four places, whatever), but I don't see much substantive difference in what's happening now in these threads and what used to happen in Natter, whitefonted.

I like the Non-Fiction thread because I don't care about being spoiled for any of the shows. I still don't use the other two experimentals for the reasons ND and Kat both mentioned above.

I have no problem making the choice to stay out of those threads, but I am a little wigged at the idea of people having to choose between not talking about a show at all on the board or talking about it in a thread that will spoil them for other shows.

But...eh. Do I care enough to make a fuss? Really not.