Have we definitely decided against a Movies thread? Because I came up with a great argument against it, but I don't want to post it if it's beating a dead horse.
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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.
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I'm curious, Michele.
Have we definitely decided against a Movies thread?
I would say that the consensus at this point is to have only a Music thread and no general movie thread.
at this time
Do you know how frustrating it is to have to suppress a really good retort?
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I realized that it would have to be an entire thread full of whitefont. Music, unlike movies, doesn't have a plot to get spoiled. If you're in the LOTR thread, then you're there to talk about at least the first two LOTR films, and if you don't want to be spoiled, you don't go there. But -- as your surprise, ita, at getting spoiled for Love Story in I think it was the Angel thread reminded me -- there will always be someone who hasn't seen the movie under discussion in a General Movies thread, and so you're limited to reviews of new films and whitefont for everything else.
Typo Boy, I feel as though it's like being a columnist, or satire cartoonist at a newspaper. You can talk trash about everyone and everything...except your fellow columists.
You don't shit where you eat.
Not at all, Michele. I've participated in movie threads before, and there was no problem. Hell, I get spoiled all the time in Natter.
Note, I don't want a movie thread. But the mechanisms are simple enough that people with less organisation than us do it right.
I realized that it would have to be an entire thread full of whitefont.
This is a very, very good point.
Or so it would seem to me.
Typo Boy, I feel as though it's like being a columnist, or satire cartoonist at a newspaper. You can talk trash about everyone and everything...except your fellow columists.
Do you mean fellow columnists at that Newspaper? You can still trash the columnist for the NY Times as long as the NY Times is not the paper you are a satirist at?
You can still trash the columnist for the NY Times as long as the NY Times is not the paper you are a satirist at?
Yup. That's how I feel about it.