Okay, how about Numbers, Pushing Daisies, and 24 as a small bucket. Totally random selection there from me.

That may work for you, but I don't know how it works on a general level. Throwing a random selection in there makes it the "NoiseDesign TV Thread." That's not even really a bucket; it's more like a milk pail. Filled with Coke. Sprinkled with cinnamon.

Smaller buckets of shows that have some sort of commonality would have a greater functionality, I think.

Pushing Daisies, Ghost Whisperer and Ghost Hunters? The Speaking With The Dead thread?

Mostly kidding...

It's not even the NoiseDesign TV thread to be honest. I don't watch 24 at all. In my mind that makes it work even better, if one or two of the shows in a bucket are shows that I don't watch at all, then I don't have to worry about spoilers for them. If they are all of a very tight genre that I do watch, or am very interested in, then the possibility for spoilage becomes great.

would you mind adding a question that would determine how many of the poll respondants who plan to watch sci-fi/fantasy shows plan to discuss them in Boxed Set?

I'd say yes to this, but I'd happily discuss them elsewhere too. A yes/no answer to this question doesn't cover that possibility.

I aired some similar concerns in my comment in the poll. Mainly, why shows that were appropriate for Boxed Set were included, and things like why Daily Show and Colbert were only given one night a week. Also, no mention of some returning shows I'd at least talk about to snark at (like 24).

Okay, I'll say this one more time.

If they were not on the schedule that Sumi linked to, they're not on there. If they more properly belong in Boxed Set or elsewhere, it was an oversight in translating a grid of hundreds of shows into a poll. If it is not on there and you wonder why, it already has it's own thread, or it is already discussed somewhere, or it is an oversight. The day of week groupings were solely to divide the list so it wasn't a hundred choices in one question.

I'd rather not start creating threads for the sole purpose of avoiding hurt feelings. If there's a quorum for a thread, we create the thread. We can't make this place be all things for all people.

How about this. How about we create a TV folder, and make it accessible to any poster who wants to create a thread. Anybody could make a thread for any single show--hey, there could even be threads to discuss popular commercials series. TV folder, as many threads as anybody wants to create, as long as it doesn't create server problems. That way, every person could have single-show threads to talk about the four shows he or she watches, with the five other people who only want to talk about each particular show, for twenty or thirty posts per week. Three hundred and fifty-odd threads, maybe? No oversight, no modding, no stompy presence. Would that make the wrangling stop?

Can we do that? Can we make one folder accessible to anybody who wants to create a thread, and leave the rest of b.org pretty much as it is, for threads where people want to talk about lunch and breastfeeding and bosses and hot tv personalities and families and music and my car's making funny noises and what we watched last night, keeping Boxed Set for those who want to talk about *any* show that supports meta, fic and/or vids (FNL, f'rex) and the crosspollination thereunto.

Sorry, just testing formatting.

That would require coding changes. I'm predictably unenthused.

Also don't see myself discussing Pushing Daisies anywhere other than BS--no reason to stop other people. Sort of like my cable TV discussion happens outside of that thread, and mostly outside of b.org.

In my head it belongs in BS, and if stuff belongs in a thread I don't want to discuss it in, I don't try and move it. If discussion doesn't pick up organically where it works for me then I just have to get over the board being "broken" for me in that regard.

I do think the word "broken" is overmuch, and would rather describe the cable drama thread as "unsuitable" for me.