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.
You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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Betsy HP - Oct 14, 2002 10:22:29 am PDT #495 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
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
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
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.
Sophia Brooks - Oct 14, 2002 12:04:56 pm PDT #501 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
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.
Laura - Oct 14, 2002 12:13:40 pm PDT #502 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
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.
Burrell - Oct 14, 2002 12:31:19 pm PDT #503 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
As a west coast gal, I like the idea of watch & post in theory, but it seems too unweildy.
Theodosia - Oct 14, 2002 12:33:14 pm PDT #504 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Could the West Coasters set up a regular IRC chat that would allow them to watch & post, and then archive that into a web page?