Simon ,'Safe'
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
Don't know. Maybe the ballot needs to be structured differently. As in:
Don't close
Close thread now
Close thread one month after DVD.
Or something like this:
No Drama thread.
Drama thread no white font
Drama thread, white font for a 24 hours
Drama thread, white font for a week
Granted this leads to runoffs which I find irksome though more like consensus.
closing VM was not controversial, but I remember being annoyed that NP carried the day on leaving it open for awhile.
what's the solution? People want it closed. If we hadn't included the NP votes, when would it have closed?
You raise a good point, and I don't mean to say that you're wrong that the furor over NP might be largely moot by recent votes. I'm not sure how to solve it.
Granted this leads to runoffs which I find irksome though more like consensus.
Preferential Voting!!!
I will laugh like a hyena if we end up with preferential voting somehow!
HA! I knew that would be your response, Jon.
I think the bigger issue is for us to discuss why it's TV threads driving so much voting and come up with a better long term solution for that.
Actually no preference is almost LIKE preferential voting. Except more irritating because it has the taint of indifference and hands thrown in the air to it.
It's because I haven't proposed my "What's for lunch" thread yet. Actually, theperfectworld really has that as a thread. Speaking of places that have a thread for everything.
I think the bigger issue is for us to discuss why it's TV threads driving so much voting and come up with a better long term solution for that.
What else is there to vote on?
Seriously.
I'm with Jon.
I think the bigger issue is for us to discuss why it's TV threads driving so much voting and come up with a better long term solution for that.
I would agree. I even have an answer in my head, although I am not sure how helpful it is...
Almost everyone joined this board originally to talk about a TV show (Buffy, Angel, Firefly). We stayed because we like the community. For some people, the community and talking to the people here about anything and everything are enough and they either talk about TV elsewhere or are satisfied with talking about TV in between other conversations. For others, they want to talk about TV specifically with the people they have grown to know and love and they want to be able to do that HERE. Because we started talking about TV, I think we keep wanting another show to strike everyone like Buffy stuck us, and to be able to talk about it like we did Buffy.
I am not sure if this is helpful, or correct.