It's open now.
Simon: I'm trying to put this as delicately as I can... How do I know you won't kill me in my sleep? Mal: You don't know me, son. So let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.
'Serenity'
Bureaucracy 3: Oh, so now you want to be part of the SOLUTION?
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
§ ita § - Jun 03, 2007 12:08:39 pm PDT #9623 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
JenP - Jun 03, 2007 5:25:17 pm PDT #9624 of 10001
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 04, 2007 1:14:40 pm PDT #9625 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
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.
megan walker - Jun 04, 2007 1:22:26 pm PDT #9626 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
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?
Jon B. - Jun 04, 2007 2:19:18 pm PDT #9627 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I thought "How I Met Your Mother" generated some discussion. Not as much as "The Office," but still significant.
bon bon - Jun 04, 2007 2:26:14 pm PDT #9628 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
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.
Jesse - Jun 04, 2007 2:47:59 pm PDT #9629 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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]
Frankenbuddha - Jun 04, 2007 3:32:21 pm PDT #9630 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
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).
BIGTIME ETA
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.
askye - Jun 04, 2007 3:52:21 pm PDT #9631 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
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.
Kate P. - Jun 04, 2007 6:51:32 pm PDT #9632 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
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.
I definitely agree with this. The Office got the most discussion by far, but I also saw posts on How I Met Your Mother, Scrubs, 30 Rock, and possibly others. That cross-pollination was actually one of my favorite things about that thread. And, selfishly, since I plan on catching up on/picking up several of those shows soon, I'd really like to be able to discuss them, and the bucket comedy show thread suited my needs pretty much perfectly for that.