Zoe ,'War Stories'
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 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.
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.
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?)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Maybe we east coasters should give up watch and post for a week or two for the west coasters. Then, of course we wouldn't really be able to do any discussion without waiting until the middle of the night, so that would really suck.
Left coasters should either move or subscribe to EST satellite feed. OK, so not the best idea. Or we could tape and not watch until 11 - sure, I'll promise to do that sometime. Hee.
In other words, I got nothin' in the way of good suggestions for this.
As a west coast gal, I like the idea of watch & post in theory, but it seems too unweildy.