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.

I think the term community doesn't apply there, so much as a shared interest.

But that might be nothing but semantics.

SWF, Buffista, Bitch (large and small b), but who enjoys flirting with Natterites. Some of my interests are movies and literature. I enjoy most genre TV shows of which my favorite shows are Lost, Heroes and Supernatural. I have recently succumbed to the reality TV craze and am proud of it. I enjoy travelling and spend considerable time making plans to see friends F2F whenever I can.

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.

This is important. While I understand that the bucket threads might be intended to help and be a compromise, the reality for me is that they really aren't.

I can't think of a way to say this without sounding shitty, so I'm just gonna say it. This is not aimed at anyone in particular, and a few people have said it or made allusions to it. I think that we may need to take DVR/Tivo issues out of consideration. If we tried to accomodate everyone's needs who wasn't watching real time, we'd be in a never ending mobius loop of white font and delays.

There are a lot of people (myself included), who have other obligations or don't have time to watch in real time. When that happens to me, I avoid the thread until I watch. Which, frankly, often encourages me to watch sooner than later.

Of course, there is the issue of two shows that come on at the same time, which seems to be kind of unfair to "punish" those who choose to watch one show over the other.

I guess I'm just saying that the idea that we shouldn't have bucket threads because people haven't watched it yet shouldn't be the reason why we don't do it.

I agree with that Vortex, but bucket threads compound the problem for time shifters. In a thread with a small number of shows if I'm behind on one then I do exactly that, avoid the thread until I'm caught up. However, the more shows in the bucket, the less likely that I'll ever be caught up to enough to use the thread. With a single show thread it's easy to wait until I'm caught up.

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

So is it still a community when it's empty? Does the community...the thing... have purpose? Or do we.... what's the word?

Imbue.

If a community falls in a forest has a thread with no posts, does itmake a sound exist?

Or something.

I think that we may need to take DVR/Tivo issues out of consideration.

Like ND says, why? What does that solve that can't be solved by a thread per show?

If "bucket" threads do become a reality, we may need to revisit the definition of NAFDA.