Riley ,'Conversations with Dead People'
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
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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.
I see a large difference in how Bones is handled now than in Natter in that a post I'm commenting on is probably only 15 or so posts back, rather than 150 posts back. It's a more focused discussion rather than hoping to attract the attention of other Bones viewers between discussion of babies, moving, recipes, etc.
I wasn't anticipating anything more in-depth, but is nice to have more focus.
What connie said.
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.
What Jesse said.
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.
This is me as well.
I'm having the opposite experience. I've actually been talking about TV on b.org in the Non-Fiction thread. It's the first time I've actually talked about TV here in ages.