So we operate on the premise that "we don't know what our maximum number of threads it, but ita will know it when she sees it?"

So we operate on the premise that "we don't know what our maximum number of threads it, but ita will know it when she sees it?"

I suppose the essential question to start with is, "Are we currently at our maximum number of threads?" I don't think so, but I think we're getting somewhat close. In my mind, we could handle maybe five more. Other people might feel differently. I don't see any possible way of figuring out what the optimal number would be, so I can't see what good it would do to pick an arbitrary number. The only way to judge is by how people react. We've gone from "More threads! We'll be taking over TT soon!" to "Um, do we really need another thread? Maybe we should figure out what to do," with a few cries of "Too many threads!" I'd say that this is a sign we're getting close to our limit, and I think that it'll be fairly obvious we've reached our limit when most of the "Hey! Let's start an anime thread!" (or whatever) suggestions are met with mostly "No! Too many threads!"

It just occurred to me: I have a link to this board on my website. Are we wanting to limit the numbers of links out there to certain known quantities? Or what? Granted, someone who's on my site is there because of my fic, so by logical extension they might be interested in this site. But is it preferred to limit the number of access points?

Connie, I think that horse left the barn and has done eight laps around the track. I would not worry about it at this time. Besides, in spite of all the worry some have expressed, at heart we want new people.

I'm just here to apologise for posting about private emails between myself and Schmoker in this public setting. I realise now that doing so was wrong. I won't do it again and I won't email him again.

My post might have been interpreted to mean that I knew, from those emails, some further details about Schmoker that the rest of you don't. I also apologise for having given that impression, and state for the record that I know no more than anyone else: circumstantial similarities between the two posters.

Note:

1. I haven't read any of the posts between this and my last one. If someone feels there are any outstanding issues of fact to be cleared up, then Buffistas who know where to find me will please let me know and I'll attempt to do so.
2. I'm obviously not in control of my feelings on this subject, so I'm resigning my admin status.

I would have hoped I could have personally emailed more people to apologize for being a dick, but I got to as many as I could. And I also apologized to John, both here and in private.

Let's go back to our deranged fanboy discussions and stop the rest of the nonsense now, eh? I think everyone feels sufficiently stupid. God knows I do.

John, I'm sorry to hear you feel that way, and I hope you'll be ready to take the Stompy mantle back up someday.

Monique, thanks for the summarization.

I'm not at "Ack! Too many threads!" yet, but I appreciate the problem for people who are in my threads AND Firefly AND Natter AND TTT, none of which I post in. I agree we don't have the resources to become a general TV/entertainment board right now. I do think we may want to cap the number of threads in the future -- but I'm not sure we're at the point where that's necessary just yet. It will make a big difference if Buffy and Angel both end their runs after this season.

{{{John H}}}
{{{Schmoker}}}

I enjoy reading both of y'all's posts in Buffy and elsewhere, just so you know.

Anyhow, back to the current discussion:

What I would like to know is do we see ourselves as trying to become a board where everything (or anything with a verbal support group) is open to it's own topic or not? If we are, I think we are a much bigger board than perhaps the original intent.

I do think that the number of threads will be naturally self-limiting. COMM, Press, Beep Me, Nillytown, etc. do a lot to ease my fears that I'm missing something important because I don't read all the threads. Also, judging by the tone of the board, I think that general chatter on topics ranging from skin care to recipes to sports to fashion tips to higher mathematics to cute stories about our cats tends to stay in Natter and Bitches.

Looking at the rest of the threads, from the old (Buffy, Angel, Quotables) to the middle-aged (Smallville, PPO, Bitchy Fic, Literary) to the relatively new (Firefly, Music, TTT), I sense that the general theme of this place is that we are a group that is devoted to all aspects of language and storytelling (I think that music can fall under that rubric). I wouldn't call us an "arts" board, since there's a lot of stuff in that category that we don't really talk about much.

(Buffistechnology is sort of the odd one in the bunch, but given that we are communicating via computer and that we have so many people who are computer/entertainment equipment wizards, it's a valid resource.)

Threads that wouldn't fit Buffista Island (the way I see it, anyway) would be sports, politics, cooking, pets, crochet, and health care. These come and go on Natter on a regular basis. Threads I do see as maybe fitting in some day are: TV [NAFDA], TV [UnAmerican], a movie that seems to be on the entire hivemind's radar, Anime and Cartoons (which I would love to see, but I'm not sure there's enough interest), plus any future Joss shows. I could also see a general Movies thread, but I think that spoiler ettiquette would have to be hammered out well in advance of starting such a thread. If we continue to nurture and attract writers, we may even want to start a poetry workshopping thread while leaving GWW for prose.

Does this make sense to anyone else, or do I need to go get more caffeine?

That makes a lot of sense to me, Anne.

Quiet note: I am unsubscribing from Bureaucracy. I will re-subscribe when both posting volume and general tone have become more Buffista-like.

Is this possible to do? Cause I tried and Bureaucracy is still there on my message board taunting me with unread messages.