I'd still like to know how others can be made more comfortable beyond ensuring active Show discussion isn't interrupted
Speaking for myself, I think that's all that's needed. Just a sensitivity to timing. People are good about knowing what to whitefont.
I did feel that the conversation upthread about Death's role in the show got cut rather short, and that's what prompted me to post something I've been thinking about for a while. To your point, ita, while it may not happen often, that instance just happened to hit a breaking point for me. It was as if Hec had come back to a thread looking forward to continued discussion of haircuts and instead found a string of cat macros.
Again, I apologize for forgetting that the Boxed Set move was a sore point for a lot of people and for therefore stirring up a lot of old bitterness. I will retract my suggestion and will do what I can to adjust to how the thread has evolved.
Anne,
Thank you, and I'm sorry if I made you feel like you couldn't speak your mind. Knee jerk reaction aside, I think being mindful of not cutting off show discussion is a good thing. I'm not sure how we can balance it, given that we are all talky meat, and not always about the same things, but mindfulness is never a bad thing.
I want to see Death reap God.
I'm sorry if I made you feel like you couldn't speak your mind
You didn't make me feel that at all. Thank you.
I had a long post, and I deleted it.
There was a conversation about Death. An hour after the last post, I posted something about a fic. Almost 24 hours later, I posted something about another fic.
Is that seriously derailing show talk? If I had posted something about Henriksen and 20 hours later something else about Jo, and no one else had said anything more about Death, would that have been better?
If I had posted a link to a picture instead of a reaction to a story (or a rec, which some people are saying would still be okay), would that have been fine?
Vid? Con report? TV Guide cover poll?
I'm not being deliberately obtuse. It's just that if that's the example of show discussion being drowned out, I really don't get it. I had nothing to say about Death. Did I stop someone else from saying something on the topic with
one
post in just shy of 24 hours? Seriously?
ita, you're asking me to be rational about an emotional reaction. I pulled the one example I remembered, and the one that set me off. That's all.
And yes, Death vs. God (or possibly Chuck-as-God) could be quite amusing in this 'verse.
Then I'm stumped. If you want me to stop talking about fic, that's easier, because I don't get when's okay if almost 24 hour gap in conversation is overwhelming.
When you come into a thread after some time away, I don't see a time gap. I see a string of posts. I can tell you what I (and apparently some others) feel about how the culture of the thread has changed, but I am feeling a lot of pressure to codify my discontent with examples and date stamps.
Again, I retract my suggestion.
run them out of their thread
Who says it's "theirs" and not "ours" as well? It's a fic thread, for discussing fic.
But just so I'm clear, SPN is persona non grata on the board everywhere but in this thread? I know people are reluctant to have "disagreeable content", which apparently, as I'm understading from tonight's discussion, includes anything SPN-related, anywhere else on the board?
Okay fine, if that's the consensus. It just feels like self-ghettoization to me.
