Um, I don't think anyone is agitating for its closure. If you guys want to close up shop fine, but don't close it just to satisfy some nebulous group of folks who see the thread as a thorn in their side. I don't think they exist.

I don't think anyone is agitating for its closure either. And although I don't imagine some group of Buffistas seeing the thread as a thorn in their side, I also know some Buffistas opened their own bookclub in lj, right around the time this thread was created. I don't know that it fared any better than this one. It might even be gone now, but it still seemed a little point-y. Not thorny. Just pointy. Something, with a point.

Also, a lot of the opposition was based on the anti-proliferation stance, which is as much about culture as resources. Because I share that to some extent, I'd rather see us close threads that don't succeed, so that when there is a proposal for a new thread, it doesn't have to bear quite as big a burden. Since this idea never did take off like wildfire, I now really don't see any reason this sort of discussion couldn't take place in the Literary thread.

This thread opened in July, 2004. It's August, 2005. We didn't even make it to 1000 posts.

I also know some Buffistas opened their own bookclub in lj, right around the time this thread was created

They did?

We didn't even make it to 1000 posts.

"I'm not dead yet! I feel happy!"

They did?

Yeah. I just looked it up, and got the "this journal has been deleted and purged" message. But yeah.

cereal...

I won't propose we close it, if a decent number of people in here want to keep it open. I do think it's something we should consider though, because opening new threads is a touchy subject for Buffistas who take either the pro-proliferation stance or the anti. It just feels to me like it might be slightly less tense, if, when a thread failed, we admitted it and closed it.

I'm not sure what conclusion to draw from the existence of that mysterious other bookclub. That there was opposition to this one? That buffista bookclubs are doomed in general? That all those other bookclubbers have goatees?

It just feels to me like it might be slightly less tense, if, when a thread failed, we admitted it and closed it.

I bet all the people who were so mortally disturbed by the idea of this thread have forgotten about it.

sluuuuuuuut

You go trolling for those things, don't you.

Some days are just lucky.

I don't think anyone is agitating for its closure either. And although I don't imagine some group of Buffistas seeing the thread as a thorn in their side, I also know some Buffistas opened their own bookclub in lj, right around the time this thread was created. I don't know that it fared any better than this one. It might even be gone now, but it still seemed a little point-y. Not thorny. Just pointy. Something, with a point.

Interesting that it seemed that way to you. That was me who started one. If you're gonna bring it up, go ahead and bring it all up. And if you don't remember that it was me, was it really that Point-y?

They did?

Why is it surprising? If it really is, let me explain that while yes I am a member of this community and I invited other members of this community to be a part of a bookclub experiment on LJ, it was NOT a Buffista bookclub.

I happen to do many things with other people who post on this website, that doesn't make them Buffista things.

I'm not sure what conclusion to draw from the existence of that mysterious other bookclub.

Well then let me clear some of it up. No way do I want to be part of a mystery.

I had no interest in doing a non-threaded discussion. THAT is why I opened one on LJ, I thought the environment there was better suited.

And ftr, I remember very distinctly why I didn't want this thread and didn't want to be a part of it.