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?
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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.
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aurelia - Jun 05, 2007 8:31:25 am PDT #9637 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Liese S. - Jun 05, 2007 8:48:16 am PDT #9638 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Not for me.
Connie Neil - Jun 05, 2007 8:55:46 am PDT #9639 of 10001
brillig
Is the goal for most people to have a place (outside of Natter) for any tv show you can think of?
No
ChiKat - Jun 05, 2007 8:58:30 am PDT #9640 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Then what is the goal?
brenda m - Jun 05, 2007 8:59:29 am PDT #9641 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
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.)
Connie Neil - Jun 05, 2007 9:08:48 am PDT #9642 of 10001
brillig
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.
askye - Jun 05, 2007 9:13:11 am PDT #9643 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
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.
Fred Pete - Jun 05, 2007 9:14:51 am PDT #9644 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
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.
aurelia - Jun 05, 2007 9:38:32 am PDT #9645 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Do you mean is it the goal to have separate threads for every tv show?
No, I didn't mean that.
Based on all the people who have stated preferences toward reinstating all the experimental buckets I started wondering what the underlying goal was. Are people wanting to create huge buckets that can catch all the shows out there so that this discussion will never be revisited (aside from individual show thread creation)?
Topic!Cindy - Jun 05, 2007 9:50:13 am PDT #9646 of 10001
What is even happening?
I don't know, aurelia. That question is almost too big for me.
Before the experiment, I figured the experiment would give us some practical basis (rather than theoretical) for making decisions about threads for shows that are not typical Buffistas shows (Whedon, Minear, and Media Fannish shows).
Now, I figure people will propose the threads they want, and some will get approved, some will change significantly, and some ideas will be shot down.