The thread is interesting for me, but not if it's going to be all out in the open. I only like being spoiled for some shows.
Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.
'Underneath'
Spoilers 3: First Mutant Enemy, Now the World
[NAFDA] Spoilers for any and all currently running TV shows. All hardcore spoilage, all the time. No white font.
§ ita § - Oct 24, 2004 3:35:35 pm PDT #65 of 3486
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
DCJensen - Oct 24, 2004 3:38:07 pm PDT #66 of 3486
All is well that ends in pizza.
The problem is, that a general spoiler thread must searve severla masters. If we want to be unspoiled for some shows and unspoiled for others, than basically you can't come in at all.
For instance, If I wanted to read Lost spoilers, but not Alias spoilers, I"m SOL if we eliminate whitefont in this thread.
This would not be an issue in a single topic thread, but here? A bit more complicated.
ETA: Xpost with ita... heh
DavidS - Oct 24, 2004 3:41:00 pm PDT #67 of 3486
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
There's white font elsewhere. A major feature of previous spoiler boards was No Freakin' Whitefont. I'd rather this was Non-Sluts Beware forewarned zone, rather than a pick and choose whitefont-everywhere zone.
§ ita § - Oct 24, 2004 3:51:02 pm PDT #68 of 3486
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There's white font elsewhere
Where?
I'm sure there are also unwhitefonted spoilers somewhere too.
DavidS - Oct 24, 2004 3:53:05 pm PDT #69 of 3486
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Where?
Hmmm, I guess I'm just thinking of all the white font splooshed across natter when a new show airs. Which will be mostly mitigated by the Lost thread. Still, I'd rather culturally this thread be like the Buffy or Angel spoiler threads - very slutty. Rather than something like Spoilers Lite, which was all whitefont all the time.
§ ita § - Oct 24, 2004 3:55:43 pm PDT #70 of 3486
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah, but those aren't spoilers. Telling me I can go a million other places and not learn what happens next in Lost is pretty useless, since I was coming here to find out what happens next in The OC (for instance).
Topic!Cindy - Oct 24, 2004 3:59:35 pm PDT #71 of 3486
What is even happening?
Upstream, Lyra asked:
A question: Is everyone comfortable with whitefonting everything, or could we find a more permissive policy that worked for everyone? My suggestion would be plain-text for everything except maybe truly shocking things (character deaths, resolutions to cliffhangers), with the show title and a few lines of blank space at the top of each post to facilitate scrolling/skimming/skipping. But if the whitefont works, it works.
I'm comfortable with that, but I am also comfortable with trying it how it is, now.
P.M. Marc - Oct 24, 2004 4:13:24 pm PDT #72 of 3486
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I'm with Amych on the whitefont issue.
If people need spoiler fairies, I'm always willing to be of service, but whitefont in here drives me batty.
libkitty - Oct 24, 2004 5:13:02 pm PDT #73 of 3486
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
If we whitefont, then should we decide if this thread is NAFDA or not, for responses? Many of the Lost posts are actually talking about things that have already been aired, I think mostly in response to spoilers. Because they relate to posts here, I think it's appropriate to respond here, but wouldn't think that they would need to be whitefonted.
Jessica - Oct 24, 2004 5:19:38 pm PDT #74 of 3486
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I would also vote in favor of a no-whitefont thread. I'm willing to whitefont if that's what it takes to have a spoiler thread at all, but it's not ideal.
I strongly feel that, at the very least, this must be a NAFDA space where anything that's been aired can be discussed freely. Also any speculation. Whitefont, if we're going to have it at all, should be reserved for actual spoilers only.