I'm for a tape fairy thread. Stash it on the right in the administrative section.
This is so nice. Having everyone together for my birthday. Of course, you could smash in all my toes with a hammer and it will still be the bestest Buffy Birthday Bash in a big long while.
Buffy ,'Potential'
Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier
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
lori - Sep 25, 2002 2:46:38 pm PDT #245 of 10001
Jessica - Sep 25, 2002 2:47:41 pm PDT #246 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Oh, and episode titles are generally okay too, but overly descriptive ones should be whitefonted.
(I.e. "Lessons" is fine to post in public, but "Tara's Ghost Teaches Dawn How To Drive" should be whited out.)
P.M. Marc - Sep 25, 2002 2:48:46 pm PDT #247 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I'm a bit baffled by the change to Spoiler Lite. TV Guide descriptions very very often include eaxct plot points, so do many articles.
Argh. Well, we'll hash it out somehow.
candyb - Sep 25, 2002 2:49:42 pm PDT #248 of 10001
So the only real difference bewteen the Spoiler Lites and the other one is the white fonting and separate topics for each show.
Jessica - Sep 25, 2002 2:50:11 pm PDT #249 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I think "Lite" is a misnomer. It's really "spoilers that are so easy to find it's frustrating not to talk about them on the main thread."
P.M. Marc - Sep 25, 2002 2:50:51 pm PDT #250 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
So the only real difference bewteen the Spoiler Lites and the other one is the white fonting and separate topics for each show.
No, not really. No wildfeed information, no Wanda, no couldn't be stumbled across accidentally.
Nothing you'd have to hunt for.
Steph L. - Sep 25, 2002 2:50:59 pm PDT #251 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
That description makes sense to me.
[edit: Jessica's and Plei's.]
candyb - Sep 25, 2002 2:52:44 pm PDT #252 of 10001
Spoilers are very easy to find these days. There are entire sites devoted to them.
Now that plot points are allowed in Lite, the only differences are, again, white fonting and separate topics.
{edit} OK, wanda and wildfeed discussion. Got it. It's a hair of a difference, though.
§ ita § - Sep 25, 2002 2:52:57 pm PDT #253 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jessica, that's kinda subjective. "So easy to find"? The only place I have to work at not seeing spoilers is here. Perhaps "widely and officially disseminated" is more accurate.
As is, as I assume was intended, the "frustrating not to talk about them on the main thread", since I've never had that problem, and I know I'm not alone.
It's such a huge grey area -- which is why I stepped out of the thread.
amych - Sep 25, 2002 2:56:41 pm PDT #254 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I think "Lite" is a misnomer. It's really "spoilers that are so easy to find it's frustrating not to talk about them on the main thread."
That was my understanding when we started the thread, and it was the reason that I originally (on WX) asked to have the distinction be made according to the source of the spoiler -- TV guide as opposed to Wildfeed summaries, for example -- rather than by content. It's a point that immediately got lost, and now I really wish I'd insisted on hashing it out better instead of just going along.
That said, whatever we decide, I think Lite should remain a place where people whitefont and try to give warnings. It isn't the post-anything zone that the main spoiler thread is, and was never meant to be.