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
The tape delayed really need to chime in with the ideal time period.
The weekend is too short for me. Typically when basketball delays Buffy it re-airs Sunday at noon. Or, UPN will say it re-airs Sunday at noon, but instead it airs Saturday at 2. Which I will find out, Sunday at noon, and, like I am doing right now, have to scramble for a local tape. I can't watch tonight's until I watch that tape, etc., etc. In addition to which, Angels airs Wednesday night; that leaves a total of two days to get the tape. My strong vote is a week (if not two).
Please don't be too spoilery
Given that we've been explicit about what's a spoiler and what's not ME show related, and people still stumble, we're going to have to be way explicit here.
About whitefont for Movies threads: don't forget UNamericans. Movies often don't get released in Europe until months after the U.S. release. Though in some, isolated cases, they get released before...
(Another whitefont, another headache, isn't it?).
I feel like the spoiler policy will work itself out to some extent. I post that Darth Vadar is Luke's father, someone else says "hey, not everyone has seen that yet, please delete or edit," I do it. Community discussion and self-moderation may be better than trying to come up with iron-clad rules that will satisfy everyone.
I'd like it if we whitefonted major plot twists at least until the film goes to video.
This could be a year or more, depending on the movie. If we're going to have a movies thread at all, I think it has to be one where current films can be openly discussed.
Maybe a month after wide release, instead of two weeks?
Lyra, I think yr unclosed HTML is making Am blue.
Ah ha. Reason #4 why I didn't want a movie thread in the first place. The spoiler policy. Inevitably going to be a source of continuing frustration.
Spoiler fonting definitely can work, but one would need something like there was on WX: a posting of which movies came out each week, and then which ones are currently free to be posted in non-white.
Are we talking about whitefonting all discussion on new films, or just major plot details/endings? I think whitefonting everything would be incredibly cumbersome -- but OTOH I don't want to open the thread and find out how the film I was going to see this weekend ends, assuming the ending is more twisty than "the cop gets his man" or "they make up and kiss."
