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.

Is whitefonting really that much of a pain in the ass to read or to write? I don't even mean that in a snarky way; I'm genuinely curious.

Kat's ass is kinda cute, and speaks for me.

Thread proliferation creates more traffic, which creates larger demands both on poster attention and board resources. Selfishly, I don't want distracted posters, because people are going to choose to be in different places and overlap less. Professionally, I'm always nervous about the code. And there's the "we'll have to buy more bandwidth" issue too.

That sounds like a decent compromise, but maybe there may be some who want to reference the most recent episode of the other show in spoiler font during the grace period. How would that fit in?

can someone explain the Natter 9...Natter 9 joke to me?

"Revolution #9" by the Beatles. From the White Album. Perhaps their most experimental piece, it consists entirely of various tape loops, the most prominant being a voice repeating over and over "Number nine, number nine, number nine..."

Is whitefonting really that much of a pain in the ass to read or to write? I don't even mean that in a snarky way; I'm genuinely curious.

It's not so much that it's a pain in the ass to read or write, it's what happens when someone forgets to use spoiler font in a post, then we get other posts pointing out that spoiler font should be used, and then we get posts apologizing for the mistake, and so on and so on, so much so that the thread of conversation gets sidetracked a bit. At least IMHO.

I know it's a bit early, but I'd like to nominate a thread title:

"Good thinking, Natter 99."