I don't want there to be whoe subcultures of Buffistas I've never met, just because I don't subscribe to X thread. That scares me, a little.

I agree. Though for me, this has already happened with Music, Firefly, and the various writing/fic threads.

(And yes, this probably belongs in B'cy, since it's not strictly relevant to the current proposal.)

Is it still too soon to use the Previously thread for the most recently passed NAFDA seasons? (i.e. BtVS 7, A:ts 5)

If not...

But I do agree that if Jim so prefers, it can be added to the proposal, "If the Casting Change is added, so is added a Virgins thread." 'Course, the anti-thread proliferation party may take issue. But where we are closing some threads during the Great Housecleaning of The Fall 2003 TeeVee Season, perhaps we'll end up even stevens.

It should be a separate item, so that allowing the pre-season cast list to be public knowledge doesn't hinge on it.

e.g.:

Item 1: Whatever Jim's proposal fleshes out to be.

Item 2: If item 1 passes, do you approve creating a thread for people who consider pre-season cast lists to be spoilers. (Only way better worded.)

If we're going to have THREE ways for people of varying degrees of spoilage to discuss we should have ONE for the people who like to -- radical though it may be-- turn on a television show and see what happens.

Here's the thing, we don't even know if most people here consider the cast list to be spoilers. We know you and Elena do. We know Plei, me, Jim and handful don't. We don't know what most Buffistas think it is. So although you consider talk about the contracted regular cast to be a spoiler, we know some people don't - and what we need to find out for the board's sake is how many people do.

edited for clarity

Is it still too soon to use the Previously thread for the most recent NAFDA seasons?

I know some of the Australians have seen "Home" - I'm not sure if everyone has, though. I'll go ask.

t returns

moonlit says it's showing this Thursday, so as of that point Previously should be open for discussion, yes?

Trudy, I just want to say that I have sympathy for how much the mere thought of losing access to the Angel thread is causing you. I know, better than you perhaps, what it would feel like. Why? Because many of us have been without an Angel thread for MONTHS now.

I wish that, in all your pleas, you just once acknowledged that your desire for keeping your privileged access to the thread will inevitably mean that others will be unable to discuss the show in there.

OK, I have a question: why can't people who know the casting changes talk in Spoils Lite until the promos start? Which, god willing, should be any minute.

OK, I have a question: why can't people who know the casting changes talk in Spoils Lite until the promos start? Which, god willing, should be any minute.

Because it pushes discussion into the ghetto, and changes the very nature of a thread that's not discussion-centric.

I see what you're saying. I'm just thinking it will be virually everyone in there discussing for a short period of time, and it's seeming like the easiest solution, given the short time-frame we're talking about. (God willing. I've been watching extra WB, and no Angel yet.)

I'm also thinking, that when the show starts, it's gonna be a weird 3 discussion thing going on. Either the people who went to lite will stay there to continue discussions they'd been having, or the regular Angel thread will choke because the discussions have been going on outside of it.

I'm remembering (possibly incorrectly) a discussion in Spoilers that was really good, and I suggested moving it to Buffy (wasn't spoilery), and whoever I was discussing with said no because ...eh now I forget, but I was thinking of it today and thinking it was relevant.

I see what you're saying. I'm just thinking it will be virually everyone in there discussing for a short period of time, and it's seeming like the easiest solution, given the short time-frame we're talking about.

It also doesn't solve what appears to be the central issue, because this, at it's heart, isn't about the BCS.

Either the people who went to lite will stay there to continue discussions they'd been having, or the regular Angel thread will choke because the discussions have been going on outside of it.

This too.