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
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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.
eh, loved the show, but I think it's time to retire the thread.
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.
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.
I know a vote is required to open a new thread. Does the same go for closing one?
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.
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.
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.
Yeah, mostly our thread closings have been at the behest of the thread denizens and have not gone to a vote. But those were smaller subgroups, like Atlantic Canadians, that sort of thing, which had also outlived its show usefulness. But it didn't close until the thread users asked the community to do so.
As far as comics go, there's Jossverse in Other Media for that.
With Buffy & Angel, we made a cultural decision that we wanted to always have Buffy. But we did also decide we were okay with rolling them together. It was a little weird for people like me who saw the end of one but not the other, but it worked out okay, I think.
