So... amended:

The House Keeping Proposal:

1. The Buffista Corp thread gets closed. Bless its Cafe Press heart.

2. At some point, post-death match that the Buffy quotable thread be closed.

3. The slug for the Previously thread will be changed to add Angel. It's still open whether or not it will say Angel or Angel and Buffy.

4. Change ita's username to adorable fluffy bo-bita.

5. Due South, Smallville and perhaps Farscape will be consolidated in some way. We are still discussing this. Some possibilities include
closing all three threads.
Rolling all three threads into one and mentioning it's a thread for those three with some catchy Ikea like name.
Closing one thread or two threads only
Not doing anything.

6. Buffy Spoilers Lite will be closed.

7. Change the name of the Buffy/Angel Spoilers thread to "Angel Spoilers"

8. Consolidate PPO and Bitchy Fic. And possibly the Bitches' Anthology. The way it would work would be they would all be closed and archived and a new thread combining all three under a clever umbrella would open.

I like what Liese suggested - combine those three, specifically. It shouldn't draw anyone who wasn't drawn in when each show had a unique thread, and yet the posters still have a home.

4. Change ita's username to adorable fluffy bo-bita.

Can we add a "bunny" in there somewhere?

And possibly the Bitches' Anthology.

I think that could be rolled into there.

I don't want it to go away becuase I can't keep up with Natter..

This is the strongest argument against just rolling all three of them back into Natter, which I think was the least favored option, anyway.

Which leaves us with leaving things as they are, or combining threads.

I like what Liese suggested - combine those three, specifically. It shouldn't draw anyone who wasn't drawn in when each show had a unique thread, and yet the posters still have a home.

I think this may be the best suggestion. It accomplishes one of the things that Kristen has mentioned might help with the technical problems, and it keeps the communitites seperate from Natter/Bitches.

Now, I imagine we'll still talk about other TV shows, and a Farscape/due South/Smallville thread would still be essentially a de facto "General TV" thread, it avoids some of the pitfalls of a general TV thread by not adding any new show names for a search engine to hit other than the ones we've already had (it's no more of a newbie magnet that the other threads already were), and by not being too general in proposed scope or name.

essentially a de facto "General TV" thread

I don't want essentially a de facto "General TV" thread. I will vote against anything that looks to point in that direction.

Roll current Sm/ds/FS conversation into one thread, great, if we can't part with them. Nothing general about that.

I was maybe not too clear in my point. I meant "de facto" simply because we will talk about other shows (Stargate, Highlander), but I don't think it will bloat like a real general TV thread would, hence the not necessary to be as concerned about it like a general TV thread.

It wouldn't be general, but if we're being totally honest, we are not going to limit ourselves to the shows mentioned in the thread title.

That's all I meant, not that we'd all winkingly go into the thread and just talk about any old TV show willy nilly.

Does that make more sense, and perhaps not concern you as much?

I guess I just wouldn't use the term general, in that case. Those three threads don't represent general TV to me now, and rolled together they still wouldn't. Which was why I was worried about you meaning a change that might be reflected in volume.

So is that an argument for one of the options?

Nope. I'm not sure which side I'd argue at this point. My main point is just that no matter what, proposing any change will make some people unhappy.

Yeah, you're right, I don't think they'd quite be a general thread, but I'm betting we're going to see at least a little increased volume. This may be a problem.

I think it will be a fraction of the volume we'd see from a real general TV thread, because if we increase volume it will be from the participants who already check those threads seperately becoming more chatty, not from new users, per se.

We may all get more chatty, we may not. If we get "more chatty" increased volume, how much of a problem is that going to be?