Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.

Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Bureaucracy 4: Like Job. No, really, just like Job

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: Jon B, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych, msbelle, shrift, Dana, Laura

Stompy Emerita: ita, DXMachina


Zenkitty - Aug 19, 2007 10:59:01 am PDT #1342 of 6786
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

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.


brenda m - Aug 19, 2007 11:01:46 am PDT #1343 of 6786
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

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.


bon bon - Aug 19, 2007 11:05:34 am PDT #1344 of 6786
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

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.


Beverly - Aug 19, 2007 11:14:03 am PDT #1345 of 6786
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

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.


brenda m - Aug 19, 2007 11:32:40 am PDT #1346 of 6786
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

Sorry, just testing formatting.


brenda m - Aug 19, 2007 11:32:43 am PDT #1347 of 6786
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

§ ita § - Aug 19, 2007 11:33:45 am PDT #1348 of 6786
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.


Laga - Aug 19, 2007 11:37:33 am PDT #1349 of 6786
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Somewhere above someone asked something which made me want to say...

I was drawn to Boxed Set when I discovered that I love Doctor Who (2005). I have mostly stopped going in there because I am too far behind and I keep getting spoiled. I like the idea of single show threads but I also think wee buckets might work.

In the end it's not really all that terrible that I can't chat about Doctor Who with you guys. I can dig your spicy brains if we're talking about shoes, porn or salad shooters. However, I will cry if Pushing Daisies gets stuck in Boxed Set but I think I'm hearing lots of good reasons why Minearverse is the place for it.


sumi - Aug 19, 2007 11:37:35 am PDT #1350 of 6786
Art Crawl!!!

One issue I can see right now is that Eureka and Reaper are on at the same time and have some scheduling crossover: at least two week's worth. (Is Eureka on a 13 episode or 22 episode season?)


Beverly - Aug 19, 2007 11:38:13 am PDT #1351 of 6786
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

I figured it might be, ita. Well, it was worth a question, at least.