I'm more concerned about the technical issues right now than anything else. If adding a new thread is actually going to cause problems for board functionality, then I think that we should look seriously at thread consolidation and so forth.

Which, yes, does get us back to "who are we and where are we going" as well. Sigh.

I thought that if there was a new thread, it would be after the Buffy ones were consolidated.

I'm probably wrong.

But, if that were the case, would that help as far as technical issues and not be an additional drain?

would that help as far as technical issues and not be an additional drain?

Probably not, since it's increased posting and reading (resulting from the new thread) that'll be the drain, not the number of threads that exist.

Because I'm all about the doomsday, do we need to do a fundraising drive to in case we need to go dedicated come the Fall teevee season?

Should we prepare ourselves for the Worst Case Scenario?

not the number of threads that exist.

If the number of people who sign on to lurk and participate in Buffistadom increases due to new threads for discussion, that could cause board fuckage. But that's just theory. I have no proof that there will suddenly be a big jump in people participating due to a general teevee thread, and am just talking out of my ass.

Will thread consolidation help? i.e., withdraw thread proposals in favor of board health, do the tightening up of threads, check our pulse with frequency, and then discuss threads we may want, someday in the future?

From where I stand? Yes.

My personal preference would be that we not discuss adding any new threads until, at least, mid to late October. That would give us time to resolve the technical issues, see what happens when Angel premieres and figure out what threads we're closing and what impact those closures will have. Then, if people really feel that a TV thread is needed, we discuss at that time, having a better grasp of the situation.

My fear is that the TV thread will quickly develop into its own subcommunity, much like what I'm told movies and music did. So then we've closed a few threads that weren't getting that much traffic to begin with, Natter doesn't slow down [because I think we can all agree it's unslowable] and an entirely new thread takes off. This concerns me.

So then we've closed a few threads that weren't getting that much traffic to begin with, Natter doesn't slow down [because I think we can all agree it's unslowable] and an entirely new thread takes off.

Ah. Got it.

I'm concerned that we might end up with a 6-month moratorium on a TV thread because of technical thread-creation issues. How about having an option for, "Create a TV thread, but on probation. This means that the thread will be closed if it causes us to exceed our limits on bandwidth or SQL connections, and re-opened if we find a solution to these problems."

I've always been interested in talking about other shows. Which is why I do it elsewhere, because I don't need to do it here,

I was impressed by the number of conversations you participate in here. Of course, I would be, since it took me eight minutes to compose this post, but wow. It's like the way Emeril can cook three courses in the time it takes me to cook from "A Man, A Plan, A Can."

I'm going to bed. But before I do:

I'm concerned that we might end up with a 6-month moratorium on a TV thread because of technical thread-creation issues.

IIRC, if the proposal is withdrawn and not voted on, there is no moratorium.

How about having an option for, "Create a TV thread, but on probation.

Since a vague disclaimer is nobody's friend, I'll be explicit. If we get yanked again because we're bogging down the server, expect to be spending some time at PF. I cannot guarantee that I can get us back up and certainly not back up as quickly as we were this last time. I will do my best and fight the good fight and all that but, if we start taxing the server again, IH could very well decide that we're more trouble than we're worth and we're all back to square one. Best case scenario, everyone cools their heels at PF for a few days while I throw myself on the mercy of IH and buy us a third chance.

I'm not trying to be all doomsday here but, given the HostRocket debacle, I'm more paranoid than usual. And that's saying something.

YPMV.