As I understood it, based on the last count, creation of a music thread was going ahead, and we were looking for names for it. (I'm for a music thread, BTW, in case my last post was misundertood. I'm just hesitant to keep making more and more and more threads.)

I give this information for those who, like Fiona, skipped the very heavy stuff.

Not that I want a Movies thread, but the rule that's worked well for the TT Ovies forum is that white font is used for the first two weeks of a film's wide release, and after that, it's fair game.

So who's starting the music thread? I'd rather just have one at this point, and worry about consensus on swells vs. sing about and a perfect blurb later.

and so you're limited to reviews of new films and whitefont for everything else.

You can establish a rule about this -- films released more than N amount of time ago (I like 18 mos. or 2 years) can be spoiled with impunity. We could also define "spoiler" as including only key plot points. There is a general movies thread on another board I frequent, and honestly we've almost never had anyone complain about being spoiled. But then, most other people aren't oversensitive freaks who won't even read TV Guide Buffistas.

I also think I could theoretically support a movie thread but not a cooking or parenting thread, on the grounds that like Buffy, movies are entertainment, while cooking isn't. (But where does that leave Natter?) Anyhow, it makes.no.sense.to allow a TTT thread and not a general movies thread, but it's not something I feel a burning desire for.

I guess the TTT thread makes perfect sense to me, because it has kept a good deal of the obsessive level of TTT stuff out of other threads (thus making it possible for me to ignore it). I doubt that most movies would have as high a level of exchange as TTT or LOTR.

I also think I could theoretically support a movie thread but not a cooking or parenting thread, on the grounds that like Buffy, movies are entertainment, while cooking isn't.

But to me cooking is entertainment. I don't watch movies that much, but I cook as a form of relaxation almost every day. I also think there are more immediate threads I would rather see (Like a form of the West Coast Watch-N-Post) before a movie thread. Obviously that a YThreadPreferenceMV deal.

Speaking of movies threads, is there any interest in another round of the Foamies this year?

If we set up the thread now, we could have the results at the same time as the Oscars, which I think would be pretty cool.

Because expressing a point of view someone does not agree with is not a personal attack against them. Vehemently disagreeing with a political party is not a personal attack on every member of that political party. Expressing disgust with a politician is not an attack on those who admire that politician. And if someone tries to make you feel like those things are personal attacks, tries to make you feel guilty for expressing a legitmate point of view - shame on them.

Hmmm. "The guy you support eats dead baby harp seals for breakfast! But it's no reflection on YOU! Honest"

As for me, go forth and sin no more?

Ho-kay.

t bites back urge to rejoice that Jesus Himself has joined us on the boards, shuffles out of Bureaucracy

One of the reasons I'd asked about a movies thread was because I noticed the EC is going to be in a movie pretty soon ("Darkness Falls" I think the title is, but don't quote me (unless this post turns out funny, and you're quoting me for COMM (aren't all these paranthesis remarks confusing?))).

Then I thought... "These people like LotR. I like LotR! There are probably other movies that we could talk about!"

I wouldn't want to spoil anything for anyone, of course, or read spoilers to movies I didn't want spoiled. With white fonting, I'm sure a movie thread could exist without an excessive amount of kimchi.

Or, I could just wade through Natter.

"The guy you support eats dead baby harp seals for breakfast! But it's no reflection on YOU! Honest"

I think eating animals for food is cruel, but I don't think that everyone who does it is a bad person.

There's no contradiction there.

Anyone not a registered buffista is fair game.

See, I'm just really uncomfortable with this articulation of our policy. It suggests that we're constantly virulent against anyone who is Not Like Us, therefore hostile to outsiders, therefore hostile to newbies; and it, slightly less pressingly, suggests that we've also got loads and loads of unexpressed poison buried in interBuffista communications, just hidden, because you're not allowed to say it out loud.

That makes me actually very unhappy.

Respect and a willingness to back down and be Doblerized.

Yes.

RL, do you see an overwhelming hostility to others here? Or a huge undercurrent of tension?

It's just a painting of reality. The Buffistas snark on people.

I think it boils down to "don't get ad hominem here".

I'm sorry if the semantics upset you, but how else would you state it?