It's actually been fairly stable recently. Sounds like the server went down hard, though.
Wesley: Illyria can be...difficult. Testing her might be hard without getting someone seriously hurt. Angel: We'll make Spike do it. Wesley: Good.
'Underneath'
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
Dana - Oct 19, 2007 9:04:35 am PDT #1759 of 6786
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Laga - Oct 21, 2007 1:28:23 pm PDT #1760 of 6786
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Well that was a short experiment. I just got terribly spoiled for Torchwood. Yup, Boxed Set is not the place for me. I just can't skim without my eyeballs picking up little details that my brain doesn't want to know.
Liese S. - Oct 24, 2007 6:57:59 pm PDT #1761 of 6786
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Hello.
Well, we have hit a stage of transition in our little board identity. The Firefly thread is, at last, sadly reaching nigh upon 10,000 posts. There is currently a discussion going on over there as to whether or not we should let it expire afterwards.
Points on the pro side are: show is canceled, supplemental content such as DVDs are pretty much exhausted, not generating a huge amount of thread traffic.
Points on the con side are: we have cultural ties to the body of work in question, we still participate in various ways in its fandom, does still generate some thread traffic, more than other thread.
Thought I'd bring the conversation over here to see what people thought about it.
Burrell - Oct 24, 2007 7:20:47 pm PDT #1762 of 6786
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
eh, loved the show, but I think it's time to retire the thread.
Liese S. - Oct 24, 2007 7:24:27 pm PDT #1763 of 6786
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Oh, I should add, probably we'll continue to have a place to discuss Firefly related stuff. Our best guess right now would be Minearverse.
DavidS - Oct 24, 2007 7:40:54 pm PDT #1764 of 6786
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
On the one hand, it wouldn't hurt to have another Firefly thread.
OTOH, it would take ten years (at least) for one to reach the next 10,000 mark.
Maybe that's too much.
aurelia - Oct 24, 2007 8:11:01 pm PDT #1765 of 6786
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I know a vote is required to open a new thread. Does the same go for closing one?
DavidS - Oct 24, 2007 8:13:02 pm PDT #1766 of 6786
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I know a vote is required to open a new thread. Does the same go for closing one?
I don't know that we've been to this fork before exactly. Well, I guess when Buffy and Angel ended. But we also had Previously On thread to talk about back episodes there. Plus, named "Buffistas."
I don't think it's an automatic rollover at this point.
BigDuluth - Oct 24, 2007 8:31:09 pm PDT #1767 of 6786
"I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world"
I like the idea of having a Firefly thread, unfortunately I may be in the minority. Maybe it's part of the "just got here" deal. Understandably, only so much can be said about it now that it is no longer expanding beyond maybe comics. But when new posts showed up I knew they were specifically about that topic. I'd usually go there first. But that's just me.
Kevin - Oct 24, 2007 10:04:15 pm PDT #1768 of 6786
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
There was a decision made here before to close Veronica Mars - I don't think it went to vote. Although it hasn't actually happened. That's the only similar situation I can think of.
I'm drawn on the issue, really. Here's one of the few places I think I could actually talk about Firefly without wanting to eat my elbow, but at the same time it's been so long now there's rarely anything to actually talk about.