I have been spoiled before, but I've gotten progressively less spoiler averse since joining the board... and, frankly, the aging that's happened since then, because I forget shit all the damn time anyway.

So, I would not object if we changed it so that white font actually stayed whitefont (or didn't change it). But it would definitely still work for me if you did change it so that white font stayed white font.

I don't thread suck often enough to really have a horse in the race, though.

I suck rarely and do it like connie does -- to track down something I sortakinda remember, not as my primary thread reading.

I usually only threadsuck Natter and Bitches, when I get quite a bit behind and don't want to keep clicking through to the next page every thirty posts.

It probably matters less in the TV-oriented threads, since those are often NAFDA, but if the topic being discussed in Lightbulbs turns into a vote that ends up pushing more TV discussion into Natter, it might become more important to some people.

I would prefer whitefont to remain whitefont in a threadsuck, but I normally only threadsuck Bitches, where that's not really relevant. And I usually only use threadsuck for finding stuff. But I would not expect whitefont to become blackfont during a suck.

The few times I've threadsucked, it's more to catch up/skim on large bunches when I've been gone or am behind, and dont' feel like hitting "next" a bunch. I'm more likely to do that in fast moving threads, but sometimes in threads where I've just gotten way behind (like a TV thread where I've caught up on a bunch of eps, but in that case whitefont isn't as much an issue generally).

I'd love if there were some ability to keep the whitefont, or indicate at least that it WAS whitefont (so if I'm skimming I can skim over it, or at least make a little sense in my catching up).

Yeah, I use it from time to time, but it doesn't much matter to me either way.

The context in which I use threadsuck make whitefont/no whitefont irrelevant. In other words, as far as I'm concerned to it either way.

Yeah, my feeling is kinda, if it's a huge pain to do, it's low on my list of "things to prioritize doing". It's a "that'd be nice, I've noticed it once or twice, but it hasn't killed me, just made me momentarily befuddled or spoiled and mostly for something I don't watch or since I was catching up, had already seen"

Fixed.

I'm curious about something-- why are Film and TV discussions "filed" differently when it comes to closed threads?

Every other thread is Closed Threads/Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer, but closed tv threads are filed Film and TV Discussions/Closed Film and TV Threads/Buffy 4: Grr. Arrgh.

I notice it because I will unsub to a thread sometimes when I haven't had a chance to watch a show, and it makes it harder to find the thread when I want to resubscribe.