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
If we keep the threads, I'll probably pick up a show or two this fall. So even though I only discussed The Office on the comedy thread, I also support keeping it an all-comedy thread. With the possibility of creating one or more dedicated threads if traffic warrants.
I like this, Fred Pete. This is what I'd like to see for The Office/comedies. The half hour comedies have less text per week to discuss. If one breaks away (and that may well be The Office) and proves too much for a bucket thread, we can deal with it, then.
In general, I think that may be my preferred option for how we treat TV, while keeping a check on thread proliferation. Have some sort of general buckets (I think the buckets we had in the experiment need some tweaking though; I don't think they were the platonic threads), and when a show takes over, consider whether it merits a thread of its own, or not.
There may be discussion of Venture Brothers.
VB would be welcome in Boxed Set, methinks that is where we discussed it last time. Maybe.
Before we move past the non-fiction proposal I'd like to ask this. Is the goal for most people to have a place (outside of Natter) for any tv show you can think of?
Not explicitly, no. But it's an interesting question. What
do
people think specifically should stay in Natter?
(Personally, I'd first nominate Daily Show and Colbert and shows of that ilk, especially since there seems to be some confusion over them in the first place.)
Then what is the goal?
Focused discussion without becoming lost in the larger discussions of Natter. I can say, "Wow, DB was especially hot last night" in Natter and possibly get a response, but in a dedicated thread, I can say the same thing and figure someone will note it and even reply two or three days later.
Do you mean is it the goal to have separate threads for every tv show?
My answer to that is no.
Do I want a general place (aka Bucket thread) to talk about tv shows that isn't Natter?
Yes. Because not everyone who wants to talk about tv shows is in Natter. I don't want tv talk out of Natter completely. But I've mentioned that it's hard to generate a discussion because of time zones and then also there are Buffistas who aren't in Natter who would like to talk tv.
I want to create a place where Buffistas who want to talk about tv can subscribe to just that thread rather than having to follow Natter.
To me, the idea of dedicated threads is for fans of shows to come together, in a way that didn't always seem to happen in more general threads. But I'm coming at the discussion from an Office-centric viewpoint, where discussion happened that didn't seem to exist in Natter.
Daily Show and Colbert could probably stay in Natter as they're almost more about current events than TV per se. On the other hand, they could also fit in either nonfiction or comedy.
