Let's ask people to turn their courtesy knobs up to 11 and just see how things go
It's an optimistic idea. See the show threads for details of polite spoilage.
This girl at school? She told me that gelatin is made from ground-up cow's feet and that every time you eat Jell-O there's some cow out there limping around without any feet. But I told her that I'm sure the cow is dead before they cut its feet off, right?
Dawn ,'Never Leave Me'
Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier
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
§ ita § - Feb 18, 2003 2:09:54 pm PST #4740 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Aims - Feb 18, 2003 2:10:43 pm PST #4741 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
It's what's left of your wrist if you don't have fur-lined cuffs, Aimee.
Ooooh-oohhh...
§ ita § - Feb 18, 2003 2:10:49 pm PST #4742 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think anyone's saying "spoilers flying everywhere" -- the two-week rule seems to have pretty wide acceptance.
Sorry -- Jen didn't mention a two week rule. I didn't know it was implied. If it is implied, then we might as well write it, mightn't we?
Laura - Feb 18, 2003 2:12:47 pm PST #4743 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
I think the 2 week whitefonting of general plot points with whitefont on the HSQ points until 2 weeks after video release proposed above by Jess Pmoon would work as a starting point.
Lyra Jane - Feb 18, 2003 2:13:35 pm PST #4744 of 10001
Up with the sun
You mean this, ita?
I agree on jumping in with the proposed white font for plot points for 2 weeks after general release and 2 weeks after video release on the huge plot points.
Does anyone disagree?
Lee - Feb 18, 2003 2:15:49 pm PST #4745 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I feel a march for a cure coming on, to benefit all the hobbit-averse Buffistas. Who do we have so far? Angus, Allyson, and Kat too, right? Anyone else?
me
Lyra Jane - Feb 18, 2003 2:17:08 pm PST #4746 of 10001
Up with the sun
I feel a march for a cure coming on, to benefit all the hobbit-averse Buffistas. Who do we have so far? Angus, Allyson, and Kat too, right? Anyone else?
(Me too. But I don't mind if other people like them.)
Wolfram - Feb 18, 2003 2:17:32 pm PST #4747 of 10001
Visilurking
Does anyone disagree?
Are you kidding? This is bureaucracy after all. FTR, if any HSQ spoilers are sanctioned, even weeks after video release, I won't be popping in too much. I saw some infamous "twist" movies months and sometimes years after they came out on video, and I still got pissy if someone started to spoil it. But you can't please all the buffistas all the time, so whatever the community thinks is fair, go with it.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 18, 2003 2:19:53 pm PST #4748 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Chiming in late on the cross-NAFDA thread discussion - I didn't realize that we were whitefonting anything prior to the last aired episode. I may have unintentionally violated that WRT Buffyinfo in the Angel thread, though I don't recall any specific instances where someone raised an objection.
In any event, I'd prefer courtesy whitefonting to last until broadcast day the following week rather than ending on the weekend if possible, but if majority opinion goes the other way it wouldn't be that much of a hardship to skip the show threads for a couple of days.
Laura - Feb 18, 2003 2:33:38 pm PST #4749 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
I understand what you are saying Wolfram and I really agree on the huge plot twist stuff, but chances are the overwhelming majority of discussion is going to be on current movies. There are movies that have long been out on video with huge plot twists that I have not seen, but I won't ask to be protected from them in this thread. Now if everyone just does it anyway on the Sixth Sense level plot spoiler points then that would be really polite, but I wouldn't expect that.
Am I making any sense at all?