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 say that we shouldn't consider delayed viewing.
A good percentage views on a delay simply due to where they live.
With a bucket as huge as the proposed Broadcast Drama thread, even if someone in a non-Eastern time zone watches these programs as they air (not tape or DVR delayed), they still need to exit the thread every day when prime time starts on the East Coast and can't return until prime time is over in their time zone.
When you have a single show thread (or even a small bucket), it's not a big deal to avoid a thread for a few hours a week. When you have to avoid the same thread for 4-6 hours every day, I question its usefulness.
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.
Okay, for me it's not really about which four shows are lumped together it's about keeping the number of shows low. It's not even about it being 4 shows I watch. If there is one show in there that I watch then this works. The trick is with four shows in a thread, if there are two of the four that I watch and I'm behind on one of them and I really want to discuss the other one, that's only one show I have to catch up on to head into that thread. Even if I watch all four shows in the thread it's much easier for me to catch up and be able to post. With larger threads it becomes more and more untenable. With larger bucket threads it becomes an issue of catching up on half a dozen shows before I can enter the thread and post and not be spoiled. If I'm more than a week behind I might as well just give up and not post.
Catching up on one or two episodes of an hour long show is something I can do in an evening. Catching up on 10 episodes of varied shows is a project that has to wait until a large break for me, and by then it feels like my opportunity to post has passed.
Am I making any sense?
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
Two questions: 1) slows down the board as a whole or specific threads? I suspect that if we have more threads, the discussion board-wide will actually increase.
2) What's wrong with new people in Natter?
Yes, ND.
I thought we weren't talking about single-show threads because that was too much thread proliferation for the Board to support. But if that's not the case, then I'm with ita: why aren't we talking about single-show threads?
One thing that I saw mentioned was a desire to re-create the intensity of conversation that existed with BtVS. That isn't likely to happen in Natter or a big-bucket thread.
I don't remember why. Perhaps it's a throwback from when we folded threads together to save bandwith?
That's how we got Boxed Set. It was part of the big thread consolidation. It was on an 11 part ballot if my memory is correct. We even discussed folding movies and music back into natter.
We even discussed folding movies and music back into natter.
Not seriously enough!
My memory is that Boxed Set happened when we moved to the Phoenix -- the consolidation for technical worries was when our first host screwed us.
No, we had Due South and Smallville at the Phoenix as well as Farscape.
I was dismembering, in that case. Thank you.
Question: do people think anything was learned from the Experimental Threads?
I learned that I really enjoyed Network Drama, which surprised me to no end. And I learned that I liked Natter
a lot
better without the TV stuff. Although, it was bizarre, and kind of sad, to go into Natter and be caught up, with no one posting.
