Do we want to build threads that are driven less by commonality of shows, than commonality of viewing style?

That makes a whole helluva lot of sense to me.

Do people miss things like the quote deathmatches we used to have?

Yes.

Taking a few days off.

quote deathmatches

I find myself missing them even though I have no idea what they were. Anything-deathmatch sounds good to me!

I prefer Bucket threads

That not mah buket t /lolrus

We don't have quote deathmatches because we don't have any quote threads.

Aw. I first started posting because of the BtVS death match. I couldn't resist the pull. Elena ran the BtVS one, and Katie did the Angel one, is that right? Maybe it was the reverse. Either way, ♥. Misty, water-colored memories...

Anyway. When is this discussion, possibly with poll, going to start? How long of a break do people want? Thirteen days until the eleventh. I'm not rushing, just curious.

I loved the quote deathmatches! I also really like it when there are games in the movies and sometimes in Natter that we all play together.

For me, personally, I miss talking about something with the intensity we talked about Buffy. I am really enjoying the Harry Potter discussion because it feels like how we discussed Buffy. I tend to vote for separating threads, I think, because I am looking for that old Buffy discussion feeling, however it hasn't really worked out that way because nothing except actual Jossverse/minearverse shows tend to pull in the number of people watching them all at the same time (without tivo/delay/etc). I am not sure if this will happen again.

Anyway. When is this discussion, possibly with poll, going to start? How long of a break do people want? Thirteen days until the eleventh. I'm not rushing, just curious.

Do we want to table until next Monday, and then start with a poll and some discussion of Where do we go from here?

ChiKat "Voting Discussion: We're Screwing In Light Bulbs AIFG!" Jul 28, 2007 12:43:42 pm PDT

I just wante to point out this post of ChiKat's because it's honestly the closest thing to how I feel about this board and because it's just in general a great post that might have gotten missed at the end of the discussion thread.

Re: the Future Us discussion, I wish that this was one of those times where we had access to a big UN-type room or one of thoes Senate Committee tables with the nametags and the lights you have to push before you can make your points or ask your questions. I wish it was possible to gather all of us in a room to discuss this in person so that I could look over at breanda and know that she's saying something totally in jest cause she's smirking at me instead of looking angry. I wish I was a little bit taller. But, I am oddly looking forward to the discussion. I think the difficulties of the past two voting discussions will lead to a better discussion of the bigger picture.

*brenda has never said anything in jest to me nor smirked at me to let me know she was saying something in jest. Thinking about it now, she might just not like me. Contrary to evidence otherwise.

To me, the bucket threads are a way to cover all of TV in a few threads. In other words, a compromise between the idea of separate threads for every show someone might conceivably watch and the possibility of TV discussion getting drowned in Natter/Bitches. I thought the experimental threads worked well that way. Also, the experimental threads showed the existence of communities that hadn't been noticed before within the Buffistas.

It isn't perfect, but as people have noted many times before, no solution will work for everybody. One possibility -- a lengthy (72 hours?) whitefont period to reduce spoilage while re-defining the spoiler threads to allow discussing spoilers for everything. (If the threads don't allow that already -- I don't subscribe to the spoiler threads.)

The more basic question -- how much do we want to be a TV board? Again, as other people have said, to a large degree, we are. A TV show started the community originally. Natter spun off to allow the TV thread to focus more on TV. Bitches started as a collection of fic about one character on the show. So I don't see a problem with an emphasis on TV.

experimental threads showed the existence of communities that hadn't been noticed before

Which communities were those? I mean, is it possible for a community to exist with no one knowing?

As for compromise, I don't think a bucket thread is a compromise that serves people who'd work better with single show threads--it doesn't help them any more (and in fact, may help them less) that leaving the TV talk in Natter.

ita, I didn't want to bring up The Office yet again. But that's the example I keep coming back to. I saw virtually no discussion of the show until the experimental comedy thread was set up. At least for me, it was like the Buffy experience all over again -- watching the show in the evening, then coming in to discuss (even deconstruct) the next morning.