Ken, this is the last in the proposed ballots. I am not the woman to be vetting an elimination of Natter or Bitches. It's also way beyond the scope of what I would be comfortable writing.

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. or an elimination of the previously thread entirely. Leaving an Angel thread for concurrent discussions of current season and syndications. Also leaving the Buffy thread to continue discussing all of 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.

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. i 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. Fanfic would still house discussion.

Questions: 1. Could Great Write Way, even though it's for original fiction and slightly different, go with the other three?
2. What other non show related threads could we trim?
3. Is there any more room to consolidate within the show threads?

Please don't kill me for this, but what about the three Firefly threads (the main one, Spoilers, and Quotable)? Could we start to phase out one or two of them once the UKers have seen all of the episodes?

I'm wondering if we can't lose the quotables threads entirely. Do people feel that it's an essential thread? Couldn't those posts reside within the threads for their respective shows?

In which case I think we should consider voting people off.

Dude, the posting generated by that debate on that would definitely knock us offline. And I'm pretty sure the same could be said for any serious discussion of eliminating Bitches and/or Natter.

So I'm voting for non panic.

Kristen, I wasn't serious about voting people off. Though if I needed to be, I'd recommend that the entire thing happen off board, like in a little makeshift voting booth.

It would take a lot to get me to want to go there. I think I'd even be willing to try the evens post on M/W/F and odds post on T/Th/S/S or nobody above 500 post anymore thing.

nobody above 500 post anymore thing.

I'd prefer not to do this one, but I'm terribly biased about that.

I think I'd even be willing to try the evens post on M/W/F and odds post on T/Th/S/S

Or, say, evens post on PeoplesForum M/W/F, odds post on buffistas.org M/W/F, and so on. That could work. I can't entertain "nobody above 500 can post" as anything more than a hypothetical, however. This board has no second-class citizens.

I wasn't serious about voting people off.

Well, I figured. But then I actually thought about the ramifications for a second and imagined us running up the threads until we hit Voting Discussion 666: We're Trimming the Fat AIFS! and then the server went out in a fiery blaze of vitriol.

imagined us running up the threads until we hit Voting Discussion 666: We're Trimming the Fat AIFS! and then the server went out in a fiery blaze of vitriol.

And it probably would take all of about a week to get there.

This board has no second-class citizens.

Well, of course not. It also has no first-class or third-class citizens. Or any citizens. Cause it's a posting board and not a sovereign nation.

But I get your point.

Okay, back to consolidating. . .

Firefly stuff? Two or Three?
Quotable threads? Necessary or Not?

And it probably would take all of about a week to get there.

HA! I think you forget we only have four days to debate. I was expecting that around Hour 19.

Firefly stuff? Two or Three?

I say two. Actually, I would even say none and roll them up with the Smallville and Farscapes of this board but I don't think that would fly. [No pun intended.]