'Out Of Gas'
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
To be fair, we can't be 100% sure of what happens in the movie, unless we are actually spoiled for that... The books themselves I think are safe to talk about - speculation about if things will happen, etc. Regarding 'Return of the King', I think that we can be reasonably assured that a King will return so it should be okay to talk about that.
Anyway, so, talking about the books is okay, comments on the film, by thems that are spoiled, not so much. That's my two cents.
I just hope we don't have to white font for TTT.
Some people were white fonting for TTT, and my recommendation is ... no. My reflex is also that book contents are okay, but movie-specific details should be white-fonted. However, if there are enough participants who've not read the book ... well, that's why we made a spoiler font shortcut.
I vote no spoiler font for events in the books.
So are ita and the stompy feet mentioned in the FAQ? Because I think they should be. Like...
Who are ita and the Stompy Feet? Is that an old doo-wop group? Or a gang of roving feral actuaries? Does it hurt to be stomped? I don't wanna be stomped! Hold me, I'm scared.
Then list stompies and their duties and what happens when you natter in no-natter zones, or spoil inadvertently.
Haven't read LotR and don't wish to be spoiled (edit: for RotK) BUT I have a one-year rule on open talk about books and movies so it's my own damn fault for not reading it-- I'm skimming with my hands over my eyes.
Can we get a link to Firefly: IA in the headers of the Firefly thread?
The only thing I'd like to see spoiler fonted in the LotR Thread is future Return of the King film spoilers.
The books have been out for what?... 50 years or so. The thread was created to discuss the film, The Two Towers, so to me, spoiler fonting FotR or TTT (books, films and/or comparisons) seems contrary to the purpose of the thread. I think the RotK book should also be fair game (no white font required) too, even though I haven't read it completely and haven't even skimmed it recently. t /two cents
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Would it be possible to add a list of threads in which whitefonting is OK to the FAQ, in the "what the heck is whitefont" description?
The whitefont that happens in the show threads sometimes has real spoilers and sometimes has whitefont because people are joking around, so a spoilerphobe like myself isn't ever sure whether to read it or not. It would be great to have a no-whitefont-in-the-show-threads-not-even-a-little-we're-so-not-kidding rule mentioned in the FAQ.