I'd also argue for a cultural shift to drop No Preference options on thread creation votes.

And I'll point out again that the inclusion of NP has never yet made a difference as to whether a thread was created.

I guess my point is that if you want to make it harder to create new threads, then removing NP as an option ain't the way to do it.

FTR, I've never been offered either.

Hey, I wiggled my butt at you at the Prom!

I don't like tacos.

Well, guess what you get, then!

But I think the nature of Boxed Set is such that another show will catch fire and re-energize it. The flipside is I don't think Boxed Set could handle the volume of both Heroes and Supernatural starting new seasons.

Agree with this. There's a new season of new shows with fantasy/SF themes starting soon. Or, what Frank said.

I guess my point is that if you want to make it harder to create new threads, then removing NP as an option ain't the way to do it.

Would raising the quorum do it?

I think the Fall will help Boxed Set's momentum (although we're talking about new eps of Eureka to a decent extent.). There are just so many shows (like SG, DW, and Torchwood) that a substantial portion of the population has already seen before they air in the US, that they can't seem to get traction in discussion.

That and the consensus seems to be that FG is not, well, FG.

What does Heroes have to do with Boxed Set? Also, I've not yet felt the thread couldn't handle the amount of volume in it, so I had no great expectation of it breaking with Supernatural still in it.

We'll see what the fall brings.

Would raising the quorum do it?

If your goal is to make it harder to create new threads, then certainly! For example, we could raise the quorum to 300 and we could be pretty sure that no new threads would be created.

I had no great expectation of it breaking with Supernatural still in it.

For some of us, it had already broke. IJS.

Yeah, but he was addressing *my* discontent, so that was what I was referring to.

It worked for some, didn't work for others. It did work for me, and now I'm not even in it, and unless something catches my eye next season that I feel hypercompelled to discuss, I won't be. Which makes me sad, even as I'm enjoying in-depth discussion of gender issues in the new thread.

No real point here, except to say that what's fixed for some is still broken for others.

Who ARE core Buffistas? I hear this term a lot but I think we may all have different definitions. Does core mean people who post a lot? People who do work like stompying? People who make noise in B'craxy? To me, the core is folks who would radically change my experience of the board if they stopped posting--posters like (off the top of my head) ita, Betsy, Hec, Teppy, Paperdol, Nilly, Erika, Aimee, KristinT, Jesse, GC, ND, JZ, MsBelle, Bon, Tommy, Frank, BillyT, Cindy, Connie, Cashmere, Flea and I know there are WAY more I am forgetting. I don't know what "Core" means to anyone else. For me, core is people who make my experience here as rich and fun as it is.