The whitefont in Literary is real?
But, yeah, short of creating a new thread for four days, anything is potentially intrusive on the unspoiledness, and I think we should just wait.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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.
Current Stompy Feet: Jon B, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych, msbelle, shrift, Dana, Laura
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§ ita § - Jul 18, 2007 3:28:31 pm PDT #77 of 6785
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
le nubian - Jul 18, 2007 3:34:26 pm PDT #78 of 6785
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I didn't read it, but I think some of it is.
amych - Jul 18, 2007 3:35:40 pm PDT #79 of 6785
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
No WF in Spoilers! For people who don't want TV spoilers, it's way risky; for many Spoilers regulars, it's not just a no-WF thread, but a no-WF refuge (and so other-than-jokey-WF is a pretty damn big violation of the thread vibe); for those who have wholeheartedly bought into the thread's "any TV spoilers" premise but may feel different about book spoilers, there's hardly time to weigh in before Saturday, and given our recent history wrt unwanted thread repurposing, I'd kinda hate to even go there.
Vonnie K - Jul 18, 2007 3:46:23 pm PDT #80 of 6785
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Oh, fer...
I'm against ANY advance spoiler talk for HP7 on the board before Friday midnight. Not that I'm psychotically invested in the franchise or anything, but the chance for inadvertently spoilage is way high in any thread and people care about the stuff A LOT. They've been waiting for this freakin' book for *years* and it's two days! Two lousy days! Even with white-fonting, there are reactions around white-fonts, etc., that often give the game away.
If we must have pre-release spoiler talk, however, I'd say use the bookclub thread and announce clearly on the press that there would be spoilery talk in there. And white-font *everything*.
§ ita § - Jul 18, 2007 3:50:00 pm PDT #81 of 6785
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, now some of it might be real.
Topic!Cindy - Jul 18, 2007 3:51:41 pm PDT #82 of 6785
What is even happening?
I'm just chiming in to add I would hate the HP spoiler talk in the TV spoilers thread that lives in the Film and TV folder. People would be blind-sided, and it's not what the thread is for, and as amy notes, we don't like white font in there.
le nubian - Jul 18, 2007 3:59:42 pm PDT #83 of 6785
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I feel badly for the people who might want to discuss such things and have nowhere to do it.
I don't think any viable solution has been proposed. (shrug)
§ ita § - Jul 18, 2007 4:02:54 pm PDT #84 of 6785
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think any viable solution has been proposed. (shrug)
Neither do I, but that's the magic (pain) of compromise.
Not everything can be discussable here in every format.
Jon B. - Jul 18, 2007 4:03:55 pm PDT #85 of 6785
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I feel badly for the people who might want to discuss such things and have nowhere to do it.
There's plenty of places to do it. Just not here.
We're already bending our carefully established rules to reopen the bookclub thread without a vote. We're doing it because we don't have enough time to propose, discuss and vote, and because we have been able to consense on it. The spoiler issue is more contentious and (I think) would really require a formal proposal. But since there's no time for that, the spoiler lovers are stuck this time.
le nubian - Jul 18, 2007 4:08:50 pm PDT #86 of 6785
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
There's plenty of places to do it. Just not here.
Understood, but technically that could be true for literally every conversation we have here.
I don't have a dog in this. I actually am avoiding spoilers for this. It just seems in a lot of our bureaucratic conversations recently that people are getting shut out.