Apparently: Liese S. "Buffistas Building a Better Board ++" Jun 3, 2007 10:38:36 am PDT

It's open now.

Oh, I picked "ticky box" because there was no "none of the above" option, and I wanted to be counted as a non-excluded-but-still-interested poster.

Me, too.

I don't really have a horse in the race for the decision about continuing the various experimental threads—most everything I care about discussing falls into the Boxed Set ouvre anyway. But one thing I did note was that, to my eyes, there was almost no interest in talking about any network comedies other than The Office. Rather than restarting a general comedies thread it might be better to have a dedicated thread for that show if the total discussion was enough to warrant thread creation.

But one thing I did note was that, to my eyes, there was almost no interest in talking about any network comedies other than The Office. Rather than restarting a general comedies thread it might be better to have a dedicated thread for that show if the total discussion was enough to warrant thread creation.

I noticed this too and agree that The Office fans out there would certainly be justified in proposing that it have its own thread. Of course, I assume there won't be new episodes until the fall, right?

I thought "How I Met Your Mother" generated some discussion. Not as much as "The Office," but still significant.

There may be discussion of Venture Brothers. I don't think we should create threads on the basis of potential discussion, but I'm not sure we need to cut the rest of the benign comedy discussion out of the (potential) thread when the Office isn't threatening to take over.

So, after about 90 people voting, 35% said "Discussing TV shows in Natter excludes me from the discussion," 14% said "Discussing TV shows in the experimental threads excluded me from the discussion," and 7% said "Other current TV threads exclude me from the discussion."

43% said their tv watching "varies -- sometimes closer to airing, sometimes well after." 23% said "Mostly as shows air, or same-day."

FYI. [link]

Just an observation, and I'd be glad to be corrected if my perception is wrong, but apart from Jess (who if I remember correctly has zero issues with spoilers), the biggest resistance to moving the TV talk out of Natter (in it seems any form) is coming from the West Coast folks. I don't know if it's a time shift issue, or a cultural difference issue, or that I'm completely off-base, but as I've watched the discussion that's how it has seemed to unfold, from my knowledge of where various Buffistas are living. As I said, just an observation. I liked the bucket threads, but, then, I don't give a fuck about spoilers (mostly) and I'd prefer to defer on the side of those that don't, within what I (MEMEMEME) see as reason (I'm thinking of the Spike kerfuffle here vis-a-vis Angel that I had no patience with).

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Eep, I meant to make it clear, and upon review completely screwed up, that despite that I mostly don't care about spoilers, I'd generally prefer to defer to those that ARE spoiler-averse. Sorry for any confusion.

I can see that part of the issue is the timezone issues.

I liked the bucket threads because I could talk about a show that's on 9 or 10 EST and there would be more discussion when I was asleep and it was easy to pick that back up.

It's not so easy to pick back up with the time lag between the day and what people are doing -- if I want to post something in the morning at 8 it will still be a few hours before someone could respond to that and in the meantime there are a bunch of new posts, etc.