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.
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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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bon bon - Jul 30, 2007 12:22:53 pm PDT #300 of 6786
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
sumi - Jul 30, 2007 12:25:15 pm PDT #301 of 6786
Art Crawl!!!
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.
Vortex - Jul 30, 2007 12:26:41 pm PDT #302 of 6786
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
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?
msbelle - Jul 30, 2007 12:27:39 pm PDT #303 of 6786
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
While I'm posting and we're doing some freeform nonaggressive position-staking
I'll take bon's lead. I had been avoiding all this and haven't participated in a vote in yonks because I only use the non-show threads. The show discussions make me crazy and I will only care about any thread formation IF it slows down the board or starts bringing in a ton of new folk who find their way into Natter.
sumi - Jul 30, 2007 12:28:34 pm PDT #304 of 6786
Art Crawl!!!
The point that ND makes is that some shows he sees later than others -- but would his delayed viewing shows match up by genre? By who broadcasts them? Or by some other more personal means? And if others feel the same way -- do we have a thread of 4 shows that ND watches as they air and another of shows that I watch as they air and another for shows that Vortex watches on delay, etc.
sumi - Jul 30, 2007 12:30:44 pm PDT #305 of 6786
Art Crawl!!!
Or we could have seven buckets - by day of the week that they first air.
Polter-Cow - Jul 30, 2007 12:32:24 pm PDT #306 of 6786
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Forty buckets and a mule.
sumi - Jul 30, 2007 12:35:00 pm PDT #307 of 6786
Art Crawl!!!
Forty buckets and a mule
We could have a bucket folder and call it this!
bon bon - Jul 30, 2007 12:38:59 pm PDT #308 of 6786
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
The point that ND makes is that some shows he sees later than others -- but would his delayed viewing shows match up by genre? By who broadcasts them? Or by some other more personal means? And if others feel the same way -- do we have a thread of 4 shows that ND watches as they air and another of shows that I watch as they air and another for shows that Vortex watches on delay, etc.
Along with this-- all I hear this summer is not that the board does not work for a subcommunity, but rather that the board does not work for individuals for individual reasons. When that is the case, I'm not sure if there's a solution. Actually, I know there is not an answer to this. If natter or bitches does not work for people the solution is just not more threads, it's modifying what you expect from the board.
Denise - Jul 30, 2007 12:46:33 pm PDT #309 of 6786
I don't think these smaller buckets are going to have enough posts in them to justify their existence, honestly. Plus, they would each need to be voted in, right? Who's to say that all of them would pass?
The big issue in Voting that had everybody getting all upset seemed to be that tv threads take away from Natter. How do multiple, smaller threads change this?