How much traffic is enough traffic? Procedurals seems to be ticking along nicely.
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Bureaucracy 4: Like Job. No, really, just like Job
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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Connie Neil - Apr 08, 2009 2:02:19 pm PDT #3851 of 6786
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megan walker - Apr 08, 2009 2:19:50 pm PDT #3852 of 6786
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
How much traffic is enough traffic?
Ah, the age old question.
Reality is the obvious success; most of the others are in the 2000ish ballpark.
I can't remember, did Procedurals come out of the same temporary experiment? Why didn't Network Drama get it's own permanent thread (vs. Comedy, Cable, and Reality)?
Strega - Apr 08, 2009 2:22:43 pm PDT #3853 of 6786
I didn't watch Life on Mars. From what I knew about it, it didn't confuse me to see it in BS. It wouldn't confuse me to see it in procedurals either.
Mostly, I just like clear definitions. I don't think this is the first time someone's been surprised to find out that a given show was being discussed in BS. I don't care so much about whether I agree with the definition of SF (it's probably a given that I won't, 'cause I'm like that) as long as I understand what it is.
it seems to me that both of these issues could be solved with a network drama thread.
Sorry, which issues do you mean? I don't think that adding a drama thread will clarify what's a drama versus what's SF. (If you meant something else, never mind.)
-t - Apr 08, 2009 2:22:45 pm PDT #3854 of 6786
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Why didn't Network Drama get it's own permanent thread (vs. Comedy, Cable, and Reality)?
Didn't get the votes, as I recall. It was on the ballot.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 08, 2009 2:39:54 pm PDT #3855 of 6786
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I hate to stir up some shit, but it seems to me that both of these issues could be solved with a network drama thread. Has it been 6 months?
Well, for CUPID it would have to be a dramedy thread, wouldn't it?
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§ ita § - Apr 08, 2009 2:58:19 pm PDT #3856 of 6786
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If Cupid and Kings don't belong in Boxed Set, they belong in Natter. Creating a new thread won't help to explain things to Strega.
megan walker - Apr 08, 2009 3:06:09 pm PDT #3857 of 6786
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
If Cupid and Kings don't belong in Boxed Set, they belong in Natter. Creating a new thread won't help to explain things to Strega.
Or me. I keep going back to the fact that I would never have watched Leverage if it hadn't been discussed so much in Natter.
Can I propose rethinking the TV structure in general (the bucket threads, but also Boxed Set) or do I have to have a specific plan ahead of proposal?
§ ita § - Apr 08, 2009 3:18:01 pm PDT #3858 of 6786
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Wait--have you made a proposal yet, then? I didn't understand you to want to rethink Boxed Set, but that was a probably a reflexively narrow reading on my part.
Whatever you propose now is what you propose now. You can add or remove stuff the whole time Lightbulbs is open. But I'll need some sort of text to kick things off with, and that has to be what people second and third, etc.
megan walker - Apr 08, 2009 3:31:55 pm PDT #3859 of 6786
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Wait--have you made a proposal yet, then? I didn't understand you to want to rethink Boxed Set, but that was a probably a reflexively narrow reading on my part.
Rethinking the bucket threads without including Boxed Set makes no sense to me. To me, it's a bucket like any other, but less well defined.
But I'm currently reading the summer 2007 discussions from the voting thread to see if I can come up with a proposal that makes sense.
ETA: It also occurs to me that searching for a particular show discussion in Natter would be a bit easier now that it doesn't top off at 10000 posts.
§ ita § - Apr 08, 2009 3:37:31 pm PDT #3860 of 6786
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I thought you were pondering redoing bucket threads without sufficient volume to support their existence.
I've never gotten why science fiction and fantasy is a confusing genre, but that's what the vote is for.