Crack.
We can't change grandfathered policy until September 20th.
Angel ,'Conviction (1)'
We open it up, we talks the talk, we votes, we shuts it down. This thread is to free up Bureaucracy for daily details as we hammer out the Big Issues towards a vote. Open only when a proposal has been made and seconded according to Buffista policy (Which we voted on!). If this thread is closed, hie thee to Bureaucracy instead!
Crack.
We can't change grandfathered policy until September 20th.
Ah! So anything that was here when we opened is coolio, but closing threads that existed prior to voting...huh. Maybe I need a link to refresh my memory.
Opening and closing threads are exempt, IIRC. It's the stuff like spoiler policy and such that's grandfathered.
As I have gotten sucked into this discussion far beyond any rational call of....anything I remotely ever planned on, I am ceasing any further discussion of this topic for myself. When this comes to a vote (now, I hope, not later) I will vote then, but otherwise, my blood pressure is too valuble to me and I like too many of the posters on the other side of the argument to participate in this.
Thanks, Elena.
This topic, due to the preference of 84% of the voters, is invalid for discussion until September 20th.
I disagree--as Plei and others have said, while the letter of the law has been the same for awhile, the INTERPRETATION of it has become much more strict and legalistic. I don't think it's invalid to discuss going back to the way we interpreted the rule for things like SMG returning after S5.
Here is the rule:
Q. What do you guys consider a spoiler?
A. Anything that hasn't been broadcast. So anything from the show and the preview trailers is okay, anything from TV Guide or anywhere else is a spoiler, including casting news, episode titles and plot twists. No white fonting. Spoilers should only be posted in the spoiler thread.
Let's follow it to the letter. No drifting to one side, no casting spoilers to the other.
If someone would like to work to change it after September 20th they can.
But we never followed it to the letter BEFORE with summer main-cast changes!
Hey, that's the rule.
Nobody is getting exactly what they want here. If we follow the rule as written we strike a middle ground AND obey the will of the voters.
Susan, I think those were fairly major exceptions to the rule, and covered under the increasingly cryptic 'common knowledge' rule.