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
I think the people don't want the mailing list is because they feel their opinions will be ghettoized
Nope.
and one of the main motivations behind the potential war thread, is, frankly, to yell at each other in public
And nope.
The initial impulse behind the war thread (as I understand it) was to provide a space for people to be terrified and huddle together for comfort. It was to be an explicitly no-yelling thread, even moreso than the rest of the board.
The mailing list idea feels icky and backchannely to me -- it has nothing to do with my voice being heard or not, it just...leaves a bad taste in my mouth. If that is the ultimate consensus, I'd join it and not complain, but right now, it doesn't feel right. Unfortunately, I think a dedicated war thread is unfeasible because if we can attract Dark Angel fans with a Firefly thread, we can attract nasty propaganda with a war thread, and it would be many many times worse and harder to get rid of. That also said, I would subscribe to a war thread if one were created.
Ideally, I'd like people to feel comfortable bringing up current events in Natter. We're still capable of sustained conversations in there if we want them.
Sustained conversations happen there all the time. At least, I'm assuming so, since there's stuff I manage to talk about forever, plus exchanges on topics I skip.
Also "I like chocolate too." Which I do, so perhaps I'm biased there.
Yeah, we sustained a knife and fork conversation for about three days. I'd say that a war discussion would be sustained if there were people who wanted to talk about it.
and you shouldn't be- knives and forks (and chocolate) are very important.
In other thread news... can someone explain the Natter 9...Natter 9 joke to me? I have no objections to it, but I'm confu-zed. And we might need a ninth Natter soon.
Putting the war thread conversation aside for a second, I suspect that we may want to re-think the spoiler policy re: current seasons of
Angel
and
Buffy
in the opposing threads. With the promo from last Wednesday's
Angel
(all of five seconds which I haven't posted yet),[this is hard to do in a non-NAFDA thread - S7 spoils follow]
crossovers in the storyline are inevitable, at least in speculation. I don't see how we will be able to have good, free-wheeling discussion without constantly tripping over the need to point out possible spoilers for the other shows.
In short, I think we need to go back to the old way of having the
Buffy
and
Angel
threads concurrent, so that we can reference what was seen in one show in the other thread without worries.
Up aways someone said they didn't understand the whole building to capacity with new threads arguement. I guess my take on it, with absolutley no information so I could be talking out my ass, is that we have limited bandwidth and an unknown capacity of how much the code can hold. If we continue to build new threads, people will continue to post like mad bunnies and it won't ease posting in other places. So there's a net gain in posting with an increasing worry about what the board can take technically.
Or I'm talking out my ass.
I suggest, if we are going to allow posting about one show in the other thread (I can see the arguments for either side), that we wait until the end of the week for each one, so that people who get the shows on different nights can catch up. So, no talking about that week's Buffy in the Angel thread until Sunday, and vice versa.
