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.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
One effect I perceived in Natter re: discussing TV was my personal reluctance to babble delightedly about Bones when there was a serious discussion going on. It felt gauche in the extreme to interrupt, say, someone worried about their children's health with "OMG, did you see DB in that tight wife-beater!" It's the kind of thing that makes people in real life give you one of Those Looks. But I can babble all I like about it in the TV thread.
Why not a Bones thread as opposed to a bucket: The medical shows are related, somewhat, and sometimes something you saw in House informs something you see on Bones. True, you could whitefont, but it feels more organic to have the entire range of Network Drama, for example, available for the discussion.
I can work with 24-hour whitefont, and I don't think any topics should be shooed out of Natter.
As someone who's sort of on the sidelines of the board culture, I wanted to add something (but feel free to disregard):
It's really hard for someone like me, who comes in and out, to follow a bunch of different whitefont rules for different threads -- I know the rules are at the top of each thread page, but I still find it confusing. Perhaps that's my own fault, and perhaps if someone really wants to become part of the board it's up to them to sink or swim. But it just seems like different rules for different TV threads is problematic.
We all have our own way we use the board and generally I like to limit the threads to a number that I can use Read New.
Heh. Truer words, because I didn't even know what the Read New function was for until we were a year into our setup here at the Phoenix. I still never use the Read New function. it would drive me crazy!
Hee, SA. My sistah in so many ways, and as opposite as a daughter in others.
I don't mind whitefont in Natter but I dislike being 200 posts behind in one day because something exciting happened in a TV show that I don't follow.
That's so funny, because I'm the exact opposite -- what could be easier than "catching up" on a conversation I'm not following and can't see? Nice and quick!
what could be easier than "catching up" on a conversation I'm not following and can't see?
True, but then I skim and I miss posts that aren't about the TV show.
Because of this, the feel of natter has shifted for me.
I'm going to broaden this a little-- it's changed the feel of the board for me, in that I'm far less likely to talk about TV anywhere here than I was before. (Supernatural is the one exception to that, obviously, but even some of that has shifted to email and AIM.) The bucket threads just don't work for the way I watch TV, and I usually don't feel comfortable bringing TV stuff up in other threads.
I can and do discuss TV other places, of course, but the lack of TV discussion that I can actively participate in makes the board seem less accessible to me.
I don't understand why you're less likely to talk about tv anywhere here now, Lee. Do the bucket threads work less well than Natter for you because of the white font issue?
Do the bucket threads work less well than Natter for you because of the white font issue?
In a way-- I almost never watch show when the network airs them, so I can't discuss them when aired. Even when I have seen show A close to when aired, I can't go into the bucket threads to discuss it because I haven't seen show B or Show C which are also being discussed.
As gentle as the thread nannying in Natter and elsewhere is, it is still there. Even without it, the fact that people are discussing shows in the TV threads limits the amount of discussion that can be generated outside of them.
In a way-- I almost never watch show when the network airs them, so I can't discuss them when aired.
But how does that change when there's more television discussion in Natter? If you're not watching them when they've aired, you miss them in natter as well. Television discussion in natter is both wfronted and disappears quickly, relatively speaking--it's unlikely that something discussed on one day will still be discussed three days hence.
