Is the goal for most people to have a place (outside of Natter) for any tv show you can think of?

No

Then what is the goal?

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.

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)?

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.

I can't imagine any discussion that will never be revisited. We're a revisiting kind of people.

Um...Xander lied. (rolls away really really fast)