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
None of those shows were affected by the strike though, right? Procedurals would have taken more of a hit, but I don't see the strike as having affected the Cable Drama thread one way or the other.
But we are coming up on a year on these threads, and given how acrimonious the new thread creation process seems to be becoming, I think it's really important that when we make the argument that a separate thread will enhance discussion or relieve the burden on Natter, we come back and ask whether this is in fact the case.
My perspective is that this has happened with Reality, but has not with Cable Drama.
What we decide to do or not do is a separate issue. But I don't think the conversation should wait - or, rather, I don't mean it has to be
right now
but how long are we talking about? Another year? I don't think that's a great idea.
The new ep of Bones triggered some talk in Procedurals and House is back next week.
Like a stock market ticker?
I love this idea. FWIW. if only it were doable!
Like a stock market ticker?
Couldn't we sort of do this already? Say, search on "cilantro" just to see if there are any posts about it?
Like a stock market ticker?
More like a Google Alert, I think. So you could get an email whenever people were talking about which hand they hold their fork in.
Riches short season was totally caused by the strike and may have killed the show dead.
I think the idea of tagging has also been brought up before, but aside from the technical aspect of things (I assume it would be pretty difficult to implement), I think it would start to feel like we were on the road to becoming LJ or del.icio.us or whatever.
See, for me, it isn't so much that I know what I want to talk about-- I want to see new subjects as they come up, in a somewhat timely fashion. Again, sort of impossible
It looks like we've got duelling conversational styles. One side has a topic in mind and wants to talk to Buffistas about it, and the other side wants to talk to Buffistas and wants to see what people are talking about at the time.
I suspect we're getting into "Tastes great/Less filling" terrain here.
Reality has always been the fastest-moving of the TV threads, but recently it's also the only one where none of the shows discussed in there were forced off the air for several months.
There's more of a watch-n-post aspect, too -- which I felt like people (who weren't participating) hated in Natter.
