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.
I've never felt like SPN talk is unwelcome elsewhere on the board, but I started watching long after SPN had its own thread.
I can't learn without lessons, Anne, and I don't understand what makes you uncomfortable. That's why I'm pressing.
I understand you had an emotional response to seeing posts you don't want to read. But if your problem is conversations being stifled, that I can work with. I just haven't seen it. If your problem is that people post about stuff you don't like--I'm sorry. But I don't know what you
do
like. All I can do is stop talking about the stuff that upsets you.
Who says it's "theirs" and not "ours" as well? It's a fic thread, for discussing fic.
Do you post there? By "them" I also include me and any of us who post there, pretty much not about SPN. Anne does sometimes, but like I said--little traction. When I'm there, I'm participating in a thread culture that's never fostered Show.
Anyway, fuck it. I have no interest in moving my fic discussion away from the show and cognitively will have an easier time not talking about it. It's related to the show for me, and it doesn't work for me there. It's easier to stop.
Check back--I never said it was unwelcome. I said it never gained traction. Any influx of volume and posters on a topic that never had tenacity beforehand is a wholesale change of tenor I have no interest in being part of. I'm only personally against it, it's not like I can tell anyone not to do it.
I'm
just not going to.
Shit changes all the time. I just want no part of that particular putative one.
