Fred Pete is me. The Office is the only show that I've been discussing in the experimentals, but it makes me SO happy to have a place to do that.

I've actually discussed tv less in maybe part because of the threads. I don't really go in them and feel, real or imagined, a subtle pressure to either post in the appropriate thread or not at all. That's totally on me, of course. Honestly, when I do post about something, it's pretty much a throw-away good lord/ack/oof or something while I'm nattering. Or a heads up to someone watching in the future. I'm not a big tv discuss-er.

I'm not inclined to follow a thread totally dedicated to a bunch of tv shows, but I'm comfortable in a thread with a bunch of tv shows mixed in with conversations on a million other things. Probably because I don't really discuss, just comment.

Mind you, this is all just my experience, not a judgement.

Oh -- I apologize for mock-pressure that I may have exerted that may have come across as actual pressure.

I like the experimental thread structure as is.

Do we just let them run out before or if we do another vote?

Or could we vote now to establish them permanently?

Or do people want to fiddle with the whitefont rules and reorganize them in some way?

Would it be helpful to have a thread that's specifically for the spoiler averse and whitefonted so people could talk there? We can't be all things to all people but I'm wondering if that would help.

I think Supernatural and The Office could probably support their own threads next season.

Eh, I'm not as sure about The Office. While it is talked about every week it generally doesn't max out more than twenty posts as it stands, and is nothing compared to the Supernatural ferver or watch and post.

I am rather pleased at how the Experimentals are working out, generally speaking. They function better than I thought they would.

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.

This is my perspective, pretty much. And I may be in the minority, but Natter these days feels kind of empty without the TV talk.

I do know it feels rather soon to start discussing this and changing the initial vote and whatnot. There's just no reason for the agita of all of David's new proposals above when we have the threads open for another couple weeks.

Those threads close two weeks from today, right? So if we want the in-thread conversation to be continuous, don't we require a few days of disucssion and then a few days of voting?

OTOH, most shows end this week or next, so maybe we won't have much to discuss in two weeks.

Other than possibly fine tuning whitefont rules, I think they're good as they stand. I was just thinking if we want to do the discussion and any possible voting before they run out, we can have a seamless transfer to whatever new format we decide on.

OTOH, most shows end this week or next, so maybe we won't have much to discuss in two weeks.

This. I'm not worried too about continuity.