Buffy ,'Potential'
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
I thought that we were trying to avoid that?
What are the reasons against it?
Let me be honest--I'm not going read single show threads here, and I'm not going to read a bucket thread as large as seems to be proposed, and I can't see any helpful way to make smaller buckets. So I'm not arguing from any position or another. I just want to know what's underlying some of the positions, since I think we risk sabotaging ourselves by not being clear.
I thought that the reasons against single show threads were:
1. We're not a general tv forum and
2. some sort of size issue with the way the website works.
If we have a bucket thread are we any less a general TV forum? Why is that making the difference?
As for the technical issues, it will be slower with separate threads, but it may not be the bottleneck in your speed experience on the site. It does lock us more tightly in to a dedicated server too, but, that's the status quo.
I don't know why it makes a difference except that unlike WX or TWOP making a thread here is more difficult. I think because we want more structure and less fluidity in what is discussed. It's not just random topics that anyone can create. So bucket thread(s) make more sense because we can make fewer of them and vote on them less than if we were going to individual show threads. And from then we can (as we have with Heroes or SPN) vote to create separate show threads when it makes sense to do so.
I don't see what that has to do with being or not being a TV forum, though. They are just ways of discussing TV.
Who knows what will come out of this discussion--a TV folder with 1 thread per show, any show anyone wants, or 1 bucket thread for them all, or no change at all. That's what the discussion is about.
Oh--as for board resources, the more threads there are, the slower "read new" will be, especially if you're subscribed to a lot of them. But, again, I don't know if you'd notice that over your bandwidth.
I don't know how we're not a tv forum. Our genesis was our love for a tv show and it's creators. So we're pretty specific about what tv we started from but we don't really discuss that anymore.
I can't believe that we're just natter and bitches.
Just to be clear. I'm not completely anti bucket thread. I just can't handle large buckets. My value for large seems to be greater than four.
4 shows? or 4 buckets?
Four shows in a bucket.
If we have a bucket thread are we any less a general TV forum? Why is that making the difference?
If the argument is that being too splintered is not good for the community, then the bucket threads bring larger groups together and allow for some cross pollination. The notion may be that bucket threads foster community more than individual threads?
Box Set works kind of like that. But I think an Office thread could do the same thing.
The Veronica Mars thread was pretty active and engaged for the first two seasons.