'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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.
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I think comedy is fine in a bucket, too, but others may disagree. Does anyone worry about being spoiled for comedic shows? Sincere question, btw, no sarcasm. I'd really like to know.
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and now I'm earwormed There's a hole the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza...t shakes wee fist at Vortex
How would we want Drama split -- all sf-f in Boxed set, all crime related fiction in another, then one for stuff we like that doesn't fit: FNL, GA, er?
Well Boxed Set is the problem, for me at least. It's a huge bucket full of the shows I most want to watch but can't keep up with (all of them, anyway) in time to participate in the conversation and yet not be spoiled for others.
The thread with only a few shows sounds like a nice solution to some problems, but it seems really hypothetical beyond boxed set-- what are these groupings that demand threads?
While I'm posting and we're doing some freeform nonaggressive position-staking I'll put myself down as a buffista conservative-- I like things the way they are and think change will not make things better.
Does anyone worry about being spoiled for comedic shows?
Well, there are some gags that aren't as funny if you go in expecting it, but some comedies, like The Office, do have important drama to them that people are invested in (not just Jim and Pam). But, as a spoilerphobe, I just don't go in until I've seen it (and, Kevin, I love MNIE too, but there seemed to be very little talk of it in the thread, so, continuing this point, if I were so inclined after having watched TO but not MNIE, I might be adventurous to venture in Thursday night and assume that the MNIE posts would be easy to avoid in the flurry of Office squee anyway.)
Does anyone worry about being spoiled for comedic shows? Sincere question, btw, no sarcasm. I'd really like to know.
I wouldn't want to be spoiled for The Office. Other than My Name is Earl, I think that's about the only comedy I watch right now.
The thread with only a few shows sounds like a nice solution to some problems, but it seems really hypothetical beyond boxed set-- what are these groupings that demand threads?
Hmm, well, there's my cable, regular, premium idea. Or we could do genre specific like "cop shows" (L&O, The Closer), "medical shows" (House, ER, State of Mind), "lawyer shows" (Damages, Boston Legal). Hmm, L&O is a cross genre problem, but I think that would just require a BSC to pick a thread.
To me a cop/lawyer/medical show thread is just like starting a cat thread, a knitting thread, and a diet thread. It's totally arbitrary and it just seems like we're starting slower threads for the hell of it, rather than serving communities. I loathe the idea, and frankly if natter slows...well, at least I'll be getting my billables in.
See, I don't understand how we split the threads. If we split by genre: crime, hospital, football in small texas towns, time-travel - well, some of those buckets would have more than 4 shows and some would have lots fewer.
true. But, if the point is to create smaller threads to make it easier for people to participate, does it really matter how we divide them?