so I give up until if or when it becomes an issue.

I'm with Plei on this. If it ever does become an issue, it'll be glaringly obvious, so we can re-evaluate then.

I agree, and I appreciate the consideration that lets me, on tape delay, read and post happily.

it looks like the Atlantic Canadians are going to be on a one-week Angel Delay, so I give up until if or when it becomes an issue.

Coming soon to a monitor near you...Revenge of the Taunted!

Actually, Plei, hopefully we will only be a day behind (which is how things are now), and not a week, if Space has their act in gear.

A two or four-week delay totally makes sense because it can take that long to get and watch a tape. But whitefonting things from October, NSM. I agree with Katie that whitefonting everything makes it hard to hold a conversation. OTOH, whitefonting is not the hugest pain in the world or anything. So I guess I'm really neutral on this one.

Is there a standard amount of time that we are supposed to be whitefonting current season epis in other show threads?

I think it's to be UK safe -- which means I just white font everything I think is the current season because it saves math.

But in NAFDA threads?

I understand in non-NAFDA threads. . . I wasn't aware before this week that we were (for example) not spoiling Angel in NAFDA Buffy or Firefly threads.

I wasn't aware before this week that we were (for example) not spoiling Angel in NAFDA Buffy or Firefly threads.

I think that when Buffy and Angel were both on the WB, it was easier, because everybody either got both shows or neither, and the people who had one of those stations where WB shows were shown on a different channel were caught up by the end of the week. Now that we've got some people who watch, say, Angel on time, but have to wait for tapes for Buffy, it's making it more difficult. I think that some tape fairies are waiting until a tape is full, then sending six weeks worth of episodes, so we can't really assume that everyone's caught up within a week or two.

I've got no problem with whitefonted discussions. It seems like there aren't too many of them, anyway. If the seasons start shaping up so that there's much more of a connection between the plotlines, then there might be a problem, but it seems like for now, whitefonting the current season ought to work. Since we are so far into the season, though, maybe it could be that, say, once new episodes start, everything up to the end of November sweeps is OK, since most people would have gotten caught up during the reruns. But we can't know that for sure, so I guess I don't really know on this one.

I think the whitefont will only become a big factor if the shows get involved in parallel or crossover story line developments. The quick-edit is easy enough but it will be very frustrating for the tape delayed to nothing to see here, move right along see the frequency of big blank spots increasing dramatically.