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.

If I were king of the forest, we'd let these threads runs their course before making any new proposals. Then we have the whole summer to let people propose stuff. To me, there's little sense in proposing new threads right now. Most of those shows (on a conventional schedule) which haven't aired their finales already will do so within the next week. We have plenty of time to breathe, here.

And I may be in the minority, but Natter these days feels kind of empty without the TV talk.

I don't know about the minority, but you are not alone on that point.

I really only watch one show when the network tells me I should, and the rest are watched whenever I get around to it. If I watch something 5 days after it airs, I feel comfortable posting about it in Natter, because people might join in, and if not, there are other non-tv discussions also going on. (though this is lessening because of the expectation I at least feel to stick to the "right" thread) With the experimentals, I have to worry about being spoiled for other shows, and about breaking into other tv based discussions with people who have already discussed whatever I just watched and moved on.

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Also, I don't like the experimentals because they seem very rigid and rule oriented to me. We are supposed to discuss this set of shows here, but that set of shows over there, and that third set over in the other thread, and all of them have different whitefont policies, and people who discuss shows outside of that system are gently told "no, go over there", even after they have said that over there doesn't work for them. It feels like a climate change for the board, and it's not one I'm really enthusiastic about.

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