Okay -- here's my selfish opinion. I find it hard to keep up with splinter thread. So I don't discuss Due South so much anymore, or Smallville, or even books. TTT -- well, it's an obsession. But things like music or movies which are more like interests?

Would then drop off my radar.

I think that it is much more sensible to have a movie thread, than to have a thread for one movie, as we've done with TTT (not that I'd don't like that, oh no, I love it). And in the context of calls for a movie thread, a music thread is very much more sensible.

I also appreciate the not keeping up with Natter issue.

If we had a music thread, I'd have an appropriate place to express my adoration of Hec for knowing who Ranch Romance are. I'd love a place to hang out with fater, in hopes that some of that coolness would rub off, even a little bit, on me.

OTOH, I can't even keep up in COMM these days.

I've been slogging through the old Bureaucracy posts about the recent unpleasantness - I feel it's my duty somehow, as a citizen here. I'm really proud of the way it all was handled. And I totally support the vague standards. It's true that there's no way to predict anti-social behavior. I'm also amazed and gratified by the way Buffistas are able to express their feelings about this, and about things in general. I aspire to your eloquence.

Can I just suggest that you'll never catch up in Natter?

My bad - I didn't mean to imply that introducing new threads would have any impact upon the size of Natter. Just that I might stand a chance of following and participating in a movie-centric conversation in a Movie thread, whereas the chances of me spotting such a convesation in Natter, let alone participating, are tiny. And I'm quite fond of movies, so that would be cool. (About Music I'm stunningly ignorant, and would probably not participate much.)

Maybe we need to change the slug to indicate that isn't for Literature.

Okay, a violent, violent NO from Camp Fay. Literature is books. It's writing. It's not "Literary Fiction", which is a specific genre and a class-issue and all kinds of shit like that. It's books. Literature=books. Not "Posh" books, or "Worthy" books or any of that shit. Books.

Ah. I appear to have another hair trigger. Stepping carefully off the soap box. Nothing to see here. Move along.

Re: ita's point - damn. Okay, I see where she's coming from. I don't want to make anyone's experience of the boards less positive.

Bugger.

I think it is a priority thing-- I am the opposite of ita-- I find it hard to keep up with natter-- I can't catch up fast enough and if I skip to the end, I am lost and feel a bit like I am butting in on everyone's conversations. I keep up in the small threads because I can.

Just that I might stand a chance of following and participating in a movie-centric conversation in a Movie thread, whereas the chances of me spotting such a convesation in Natter, let alone participating, are tiny.

Fay is me

I don't find it hard to keep up in natter, since I have no problems skipping and skimming. I just hate the idea of talking movies less there.

That's my vote.

Can I just suggest that you'll never catch up in Natter?

That's sort of the reason why we should have Music and Movie threads though. You can only discuss music if some other music interested folks are in Natter at that time. However in a dedicated thread with a slower pace you can maintain a conversation with folks on different time schedules and able to maintain a different pace.

Natter is about jumping in and going with the flow. The flow isn't always about music when I want it to be. In a music thread, it would be.

I get frustrated because I know there are folks out there I want to discuss music with that don't hang out in Natter much or aren't there when I am.

I have no problems skipping and skimming

Me neither. What I do find is that I then miss all the good conversations, so I raise a topic and people say "oh, we talked about that before" and I didn't know. If I knew that talk about a movie was to be found in the movie thread, then I could go there and read all of that, before raising my topic. Which would result in feeling stupid less often. (Well, it might. It might just result in posting in the wrong thread more often, but I can hope.)

This is the same big debate that the pancakequistas had in the WX/Atlantic split.

I don't have a problem skipping and skimming in Natter either. In fact, I skip and skim in all threads (read only day of or day after new show airings in show threads) cause natter there bothers me for some reason. I use the search function constantly to find specific topics in all threads. I like Literary and I guess music and movies are really no different. I think we should re-think our Welcome page info then, cause this isn't really just a place to discuss ME shows, in fact, ME show threads might be outnumbered soon. It is a place that generated out of discussion ME shows.