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
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.
Seriously. I said to SA maybe 3 hours ago that until I have HP7 in my hands, about the only place I can go on the internet and NOT worry about being spoiled is b.org.
But if I accidentally hit "Read New," went to Spoilers, and got smacked with a spoiler for Harry Potter in a thread *for TV shows*, I'd be furious.
It's just 2 days.
I'm a bit worried about spoilers in Literary. It seems unfair to Bullshit a consensus on the issue, but, yeah, I'm one of the invested people. If the answer is just that I need to stay away until I've read, I can accept that, but I feel a little fuzzy as to what is and is not okay in there.
eta: I mean this largely in the "commentary around wf gives things away" sense.
What do you mean?
There are plenty of places on the net to have all kinds of conversations. Obviously people can discuss spoilers elsewhere. That's all I meant.
I feel badly for the people who might want to discuss such things and have nowhere to do it.
If we'd said, oh, a month ago, "hey, I'll bet some crazy person is going to post photos of every page of HP and a massive kerfuffle will erupt about whether they're real or not; we can fit that into the spoilers thread, no?" I would've been all for discussing it with enough time for spoiler folk to weigh in, warning notices/jump links posted, etc. etc. etc.". At this point, I just have to say "what Jon said".
(Note: don't care one way or t'other about HP, but messing with spoiler policies on no notice is way bigger than what's covered in the previous consensus.) (And hey, nothing wrong with linking people to discussions elsewhere, as long as the links are marked as spoilery.)
I think the
only
options are to open BC 2 right away, and probably retitle it HP SPOILERS AHOY SERIOUSLY YO (2), or to wait until midnight whichever night and just hold it until then. I don't have a dog in this fight, so I won't weigh in on which of those, but anything else is just open big ass cans of worms.
This is like the prologue to the Potterdammerung.
I had not thought my suggestion through and I have now joined the "no spoilers" club. I'm normally a spoiler whore, even for books, but this is a special occasion.
There have to be other places to discuss the spoilers. I kinda think we need to be ok with saying that about some things brought up.
It's two sides of the same coin to me, with the low # of yes/no voters on some recent issues.
why does this site have to house a thread for every discussion 10 people will vote yes for?
yes, hyperbole.
This is like the prologue to the Potterdammerung.
I have the Sigfried's Funeral Music on the stereo right now AIFG!!
