But the content of the thread includes both shows.

Okay, but the purpose was for discussion of episodes airing in syndication. Angel hasn't quite yet started its syndication run. I can find talk about O.C. in Buffy. It doesn't mean it's the O.C. thread.

Wasn't there a big discussion here last night (or maybe it was in bureau or bbabb) about closing and opening new, rather than repurposing, for archiving purposes.

See, this is what I'm wondering--what the purpose of closing and reopening threads is. 'Cause the Spoiler thread hasn't hit 10k yet, and we could easily change the title and then archive it once it's hit the posting limit. Pretty easy.

Wasn't there a big discussion here last night (or maybe it was in bureau or bbabb) about closing and opening new, rather than repurposing, for archiving purposes. Mind you, I don't care. I just thought we were trying to be consistent.

My point is that we're not really repurposing the thread. The thread content is going to stay exactly the same. We've changed inaccurate slugs before without closing and reopening threads -- I don't see how this is any different.

From how I understood the discussion last night, it was so when people are looking for stuff in the future, and know they posted or read it in "thread X" - thread X is still the same.

I agree, in this instance, it's not a big deal. I also think, if we're trying to be consistent, then we just should be. What's the point in setting up a process only to have as many exceptions as not?

I think it's for archiving purposes. If I have a thread that has been combined to include Smallville and Due South, and one gets closed/archived and the other becomes something new, how would I know where to look? If we close both threads and archive then open a new thread that combines them, if I'm looking for a past discussion of Smallville, I know where it is.

May not be an issue for Previously.

But it would be for spoilers.

I'm not sure Farscape belongs with the other two; Due South and Smallville could become the Hoyay thread easily enough, but I think Farscape is a distinct cause.

FWIW, as someone who posts in both Farscape and Due South I think they'd settle in together fine. The Due South thread tends to go in spurts of, oh, five to fifteen posts about a particular show at a time; Farscape isn't much more active than that, really. On the other hand, that would require people who were only interested in Farscape to see a bunch of posts about other shows that they weren't interested in, which I sympathize with even if it probably wouldn't affect my vote.

See, this is what I'm wondering--what the purpose of closing and reopening threads is.

Because if a thread changes topics midway through, if someone wants to download the archived version, they're effectively having to download two threads.

What I don't see is how this applies to Previously at all, since we're not proposing any change to the content or purpose of the thread.The current slug is not accurate.

FWIW, as someone who posts in both Farscape and Due South I think they'd settle in together fine.

Would they, thematically?

FWIW, as someone who posts in both Farscape and Due South I think they'd settle in together fine.

Might depend on how the new thread was categorized. If it were, say, the HoYay! thread, then things would fit together fine. If there were desire for a separate SciFi! thread, then Farscape and Stargate might fit better in that. I say all this as someone who is pretty much indifferent to how things turn out.

Would they, thematically?

Well, they fit together in my head. For all the description of Due South as a HoYay thread, it's really not so much. I mean, yeah, that comes up, but it's not a main focus of discussion.

I don't know if other people who read both would feel the same way, of course.