I have no problem stepping back for an hour and letting the West Coasters do their watch and post in the main thread. Plus those of us farther east can be like the Atlantic Canadians and watch and guess where they are.
This here's a recipe for unpleasantness.
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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.
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brenda m - Oct 13, 2002 11:53:41 pm PDT #491 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Noumenon - Oct 14, 2002 12:10:43 am PDT #492 of 10001
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
I would want to post my reactions right away after Buffy if I saw it in real time. A lot of people don't even want to wait that long. If West Coast Watch-n-Post makes people feel like their immediate post-ep reactions will be drowned out for an hour, that would be a good argument for a separate watch and post thread (instead of just a Nilly marker at the start of post-ep reactions).
Noumenon - Oct 14, 2002 5:14:06 am PDT #493 of 10001
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
Do a lot of people use Nillytown? (maybe a hit-counting question) Or is skipping and skimming practiced mostly in Natter?
Laura - Oct 14, 2002 6:21:03 am PDT #494 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
I have no problem stepping back for an hour and letting the West Coasters do their watch and post in the main thread. Plus those of us farther east can be like the Atlantic Canadians and watch and guess where they are.
I don't mind yielding the floor for the watch n post, but discussion would then have to wait until the next day for us because most of the east coast is in la la land by the time the lefties finish watching. In other words, it probably just needs to stay the way it is.
Betsy HP - Oct 14, 2002 10:22:29 am PDT #495 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I know this has been shot down before, but I could really get behind a watch-and-post thread. That solves the "my realtime is not your realtime" problem nicely.
Jesse - Oct 14, 2002 10:27:06 am PDT #496 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
One issue is there'd have to be a couple of watch-n-post threads, right? One for eastern and central, one for pacific. (Sorry, erika! I think you're all alone in mountain time, right?)
Connie Neil - Oct 14, 2002 11:46:37 am PDT #497 of 10001
brillig
Amy and I are in Mountain Time. I don't think she does the watch and post, and I watch via tape anyway because I don't get off work till 10.
Jesse - Oct 14, 2002 11:48:30 am PDT #498 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Then it's three airings, right? 9 Eastern is the same as 8 Central. Then there's 8 Mountain, and then 9 Pacific.
I'm just saying, I don't get how one watch-and-post thread would work.
Sophia Brooks - Oct 14, 2002 11:53:12 am PDT #499 of 10001
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The east coasters could continue to watch and post in the regular thread. Then the west coasters could watch and post in their thread. When they were finished watching, they would have to stop posting in that thread and move over to Buffy regular, or we would risk having completely segregated boards.
Nutty - Oct 14, 2002 11:58:41 am PDT #500 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Yeah, and I think that a watch-and-post thread, that is not also used for discussion, would look really silly, like so:
Guh!
BWAH!
WESLEY!!!
I cannot believe he just said that!
OMG!!
What did he say?
"Got a sweet fang, have we"? sure to be xposty.
"Got a sweet fang?"
"Got a sweet fang have we?" t edit xpost!
Cool!
...and so on. Sort of dadaist, but not altogether substantial.