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
I want a music thread.
I love Hayden and love talking music with him.
However, the music threads over in PF have closed into a circle of people from TT who have known each other forever and have already run through their circle of interests.
Moreover, I don't want to bounce to other threads anymore. This isn't a Buffy thread for me, but my home base and I'd like to be able to discuss music here the way people discuss what they're reading. I'm starting to get jealous every time I go to the literary thread. There's no logical reason that we would have a literary thread and not a music one.
Further, with the influx of new posters we now have a large enough and varied enough community to allow more subsets within that group. It used to be possible to discuss (in a very surface way) music within Natter. But now the stream of Natter is too heavy to allow that.
Similarly, I would like a general movie board. I don't think having those boards would keep movie or music discussion out of Natter, but Natter really has its own character now and is not the right place to have a substantive discussion on those subjects.
Me, I don't like bouncing to literary either. Not that I'm jealous, I just don't like running over there to talk books, or wondering if I'm being too booky in Natter.
wondering if I'm being too booky in Natter.
Bothers me, too. That's why I steadfastly resisted the Literary thread in WX days.
I also feel really, really stupid discussing Nora Robb in a title called Literary. I feel I'm bringing down the tone.
I also feel really, really stupid discussing Nora Robb
I feel the same way about discussing her and Nickolas Sparks.
Can we have a "Trashy Romance - No Literature Here" thread?
Don't kill me, totally kidding.
Oh, I'm agreeing with Hec, on needing both the music and movie threads. I can't ever keep up in Natter, it moves so fast. And even John's Diet doesn't help, because I have no sense of where the convo's been, and I know I'm missing stuff.
I'm usually restricting myself to show threads, Literary, SS, and the admin threads, which I can feel at least conversant in. Adding music and movies threads would put some of the Natter I've missed within my reach. As it were.
Upon reflection, I think I'd vote for a Music Thread and a Movies Thread - simply because there is
no
way I can keep up with Natter.
Can I just suggest that you'll never catch up in Natter? It's like road systems -- widen the roads, and the traffic will expand to fill the space.
When the Natter thread was introduced, everyone just posted more.
I like the idea of a few topic-specific threads. There will always be book, movie, and music natter in the main Natter thread, but it's nice to be able to jump into a distilled discussion of things or know that a question is less likely to be lost in the rush of Natter.
I'd just like to mention, as someone who can't keep up with Natter, that I like the idea of smaller "category" threads. I can keep up with Literary amd TTT. I personally wouldn't read the music thread, but I would love to have a general Movies thread (not that I mean to start a debate on that topic). I waded briefly into Natter to see what the reactions, if any, were to
Chicago
and I found that a bit of a pain.
I like to know Buffista opinions on various topics, because I've come to trust them (though I don't always agree with them) as being well reasoned and expressed. I just wish it weren't always so much work.
