I think it's an issue of community splintering, not of this particular thread. If there are lots of threads where only 5 or 6 people post, we run the risk of becoming WC, and people really want to be vigilant about that. Having Buffistas be a community where we are all bumping into each other and chatting is the whole point we created it and donate money and all of that, so people are concerned about setting things up so we are all often in the same "rooms." Really, Iit's not just this thread, any thread that only gets a little traffic is going to be looked at seriously when it comes up for renewal.
Gabriel: Are you trying to destroy this family? Simon: I didn't realize it would be so easy.
'Safe'
Firefly 5: That's my girl... That's my good girl.
Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe.
Scrappy - Nov 03, 2007 12:20:20 pm PDT #64 of 5292
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
tiggy - Nov 03, 2007 12:25:00 pm PDT #65 of 5292
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
that makes a lot of sense, Robin. thank you.
Una - Nov 03, 2007 3:14:36 pm PDT #66 of 5292
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
Wow, Juliebird, that grandpa analogy is stunningly brilliant. (and, apropos of nothing in particular, reminding me off all the dreams I've had where my grandfather (who died in '02) is alive and I'm the only one puzzled by that. I've decided that those dreams are him saying Hi.)
Every time I come here now I just want to hug the thread, and all y'all. I completely appreciate wanting to keep the community from fragmenting, and that's one of the nifty things about this board to me: its community. But I'm one of the shy people at the edge of the cool kids' crowd: there's no way I could keep up with Natter.
Juliebird - Nov 03, 2007 3:22:21 pm PDT #67 of 5292
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Thanks so much, Una.
I completely appreciate wanting to keep the community from fragmenting, and that's one of the nifty things about this board to me: its community. But I'm one of the shy people at the edge of the cool kids' crowd: there's no way I could keep up with Natter.
This is me as well.
omnis_audis - Nov 03, 2007 4:08:18 pm PDT #68 of 5292
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
there's no way I could keep up with Natter.2nd. I somehow manage in Bitches. But there are days where work is so slammed, no way can do. And yes! :: Hugs thread ::
OK, so I've cheated. I watched Serenity and started Train Job. Something to keep awake in booth during long crazy tech rehearsals. No worries, I'll watch them again ;)
Kevin - Nov 03, 2007 4:10:35 pm PDT #69 of 5292
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Yeah, I try to keep up with Natter, but life happens and before I know it I'm 200 posts behind. That damn Joss Whedon fellow is to blame this time for creating that damn new TV show.
omnis_audis - Nov 03, 2007 4:13:55 pm PDT #70 of 5292
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
and Minearverse is like 2 kajillion per day of late too.
I happened in just as he was posting, and the fan in me was like "wheee!" and then the sci-fi guy in me was like "oo, he's posting in a thread named for him. Doesn't that mess with the time/space continuum some how?" But the Fan "wheeeee" wins out.
Liese S. - Nov 03, 2007 5:46:17 pm PDT #71 of 5292
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
He was posting first. His thread came later.
Re: the question about resources. Resources are always an issue, since we pay for everything ourselves. In a narrow sense, no, this particular thread doesn't cause a resource problem in and of itself. However, in a broader sense, we have much proven that we fill any volume we define. Which is to say, if the thread exists, we will talk. So any thread is a part of overall resource consumption, for which we pay.
Part of what you're seeing is coming into a years-long discussion about how we use our resources, and how we define our community. There is some overall concern wanting to provide a process for how we manage the process of creating threads, using threads, and closing threads. It is partially philosophical, because of issues like this, where each thread becomes its own discrete subcommunity, a process which could conceivably happen ad infinitum. Fostering community, fostering our conversation, providing for the long term health of the boards, those are all things we want to be thinking of as we make our individual decisions.
Anyway, there's not really any us and them, much as a voting process makes us feel like there is. There really are only Buffistas, with differing opinions. Which is pretty normal for us.
Also, hey, that Firefly show. That was pretty nifty, huh? Cattle in space!
Kevin - Nov 04, 2007 1:28:11 am PDT #72 of 5292
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Yeah, I think part of the thing which came out of the voting process for this one is the sense some people had Firefly isn't part of the board -- and I was thinking, if it goes to vote, it's a majority rule. If it wasn't here from the beginning, it doesn't matter, because over time a majority of the posters and voters aren't going to have been here from the beginning anyway. I really do think the proliferation of extra topics is just a sign of a site's base shifting, and that's quite normal growing pains.
Of course, the other aspect is Firefly is this crazy show which won't die, even though it's so very dead right now.
Una - Nov 04, 2007 6:52:41 pm PST #73 of 5292
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
Cattle in space!
How do they breathe in space?
(eye roll to infinity)