Also is there no book talk at all in Natter?

I think this is the point here. Take TTT, for example - the movie has its own thread, and everybody who gets there knows that this is what they're going to find there. Does it mean there are no TTT discussions in Natter, or even other threads? I don't think so. If I understand Hec correctly, what he talked about was adding another place, to be devoted specifically to music, but it does not prevent music from being discussed in Natter, because, by nature, everything will be discussed in Natter (including ME shows, on occasion). I think that the addition of theme-specific threads will lessen the posting abot that theme in Natter, but not diminish it, far from it, even. I have no idea if I'm right, of course.

[Edited because I don't know what a ni is]

"Michael. Dude. However *at all* polite, or clever, or nice you may be now, we don't want to hear it."

Never thought you did. But since I haven't been deactivated yet, I figured I was being given the opportunity to defend myself by some Stompey in charge.

In any case, you are right. Enough talk. I said what I wished to, and I appreciate that whomever is watching gave me the chance to say it under this different name. I really will go now, as I do have to get back to work.

Thanks to those that emailed me privately to say they supported me. T'weren't many, but some is better than none. I look forward to discussing with you in the future through emails.

Back to the gab. It was fun while it lasted. Over and out.

We seem to have 31 active threads at the moment. I really don't have a problem with movie and music threads in theory as I just subscribe and unsub as time allows. In the order they appear on the home page this is how I categorize the threads. It is getting a little confusing for me and I have to think it is worse for anyone new. Maybe some kind of organization? (What are the chances the format will be good first try?)

General - Natter
Spike's Bitches 2: These Bitches Got Some Funding
Natter 6: We're wearing the cheese RIGHT NOW!!
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American

Specific Natter
LotR - The Two Towers: "Dude, Where's my Precious?"
Buffistechnology
Sang Sacre 1: It's a Blood, Blood, Blood, Blood World
Goodbye and Good Riddance 2002: A Very Buffista Holiday Thread
Buffista Corp
F2F Planning

Show threads
Buffy 2: Hey, I've Died Twice
Firefly 2: You Can't Take the Sky From Me.
Atlantic Canadian Monday Madness
Farscape 1: Fetch the Comfy Chair
The Jossverse in Other Media
Buffy and Angel SPOILERS
The Quotable Firefly: Oh, my God, I am a hack...
Due South: Mountie Fetishists Anon!
The Quotable Buffy: She said that? When?
Angel 1: SpongeVamp Leatherpants
Smallville 1: Clex!
Spoilage Lite: Angel
Spoilage Lite: Buffy
Previously 1: The Who Whating How With Huh?
The Quotable Angel: Can I say it? I wanna say it.
Firefly Spoilers

Fiction and Literary
Literary Buffistas: Don't Speak Latin in Front of the Books
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
Bitchy Fic: It Could Be Plot Bunnies
The Great Write Way
PPO
Spike's Bitches Anthology Project

Can the threads be put in some better order on the front page?

James at 15 was an old TV show. People were referring to a plotline on said show. I fail to see why it's being brought up here.

Question: What is James at 15? What does it have to do with real people?

It was a very bad, very earnest tv show in the 70s. It has nothing to do with real people, given that it was, you know, a fictional tv show.

I'm not even going to ask what James at 15 is.* Whatever.

Person 1: "I just read Blankety Blank and I loved it. But I suppose it's already been discussed in Literary."

Man, I'm laughing like a loon. Blankety Blank is one of the cheesiest of kitsch gameshows in the UK. Heh. The prospect of a book version being discussed earnestly is glorious.

eta *Ah. I don't have to, because y'all have told me. Fair enough.

Man, I'm laughing like a loon. Blankety Blank is one of the cheesiest of kitsch gameshows in the UK. Heh. The prospect of a book version being discussed earnestly is glorious.

We had an Australian version too. When I left, they were playing reruns on a cable channel. Combine the cheesiness with a reminder of 70s fashions and hairstyles, and it's comedy gold, baby.

I'm selfishly wanting a Music Thread because I want to ask questions about music more in depth than it gets discussed. My musical education is sadly lacking and I want to know more.

I don't want to make a thread about something and then say "oh it can never be discussed in Natter again" however you can't have the level of discussion about, fanfiction or The Two Towers that goes on in those threads that we can in Natter, that's just the way Natter is.

I just don't see the value of more threads over less. And I think that Natter will inevitably suffer from the sloughing off of subjects.

I really don't understand the votes against general music and movie threads. There are a number of people who have asked for these dedicated threads because Natter does not permit in depth discussion on those subjects anymore. But if you didn't want to leave Natter - you're free to talk about anything you want there. Nobody has ever said "Take this discussion out of Natter and go put it in Literary or Bitches." Unless there was a NAFDA issue.

There's no fair or logical reason to have Literary and not allow Movies or Music - especially if some people want to have Movies and Music. If we've allowed threads as tightly focused as single show threads on Farscape and Due South and Smallville, it makes no sense to me that we couldn't have general boards on Music or Movies.