I'm in favor of thread consolidation and housekeeping: I have been in favor of combining PPO and Bitchy Fic since we moved to the Phoenix Board. I am vehemently against getting rid of Music, which is a relatively low-volume thread and fulfills a specific need. Vehemently is not even a strong enough word for how opposed I am.

Let's just do the consolidation of threads that people can agree are consolidateable and the code clean-up, and take it from there. ita, can you send the code to the same address you sent the ERD to for me, please?

Just to be clear of what is actually on this ballot:

Kat "Voting Discussion: We're Screwing In Light Bulbs AIFG!" Aug 21, 2003 11:30:27 am PDT

Also we are trying to figure out what is able to be consolidated by voting on it. Currently, neither literary nor music are on it as open for consolidation.

I'm not saying music or literary are going to be on it, but if they were and the majority voted to keep them, then it seems clear they would stay open.

Also, just a note: I love the subcommunitiness of the Phoenix. But as subcommunities, they are, by name, only small pieces of the larger community.

I think that as we continue to contemplate what we do and what we want to be, that we strike a balance between looking at the community-at-large and the subcommunities. In other words, at no point should the community-at-large have all power. Nor should we as an entire community defer each time subcommunity status is claimed. We need a sort of federal system.

Or something like that.

Also we don't have a ballot counter.

Also, I'm shying away from no opinion. No opinion? Then don't vote on that item.

I whitefonted the NAFDA part of sumi's post, Trudy. Good catch.

Monique -- You and Kristen need to be consistant.

I reread Monique's post and I am a dum-dum. I was rushing out the door when I read it the first time and thought she was advocating more radical thread trimming than what Kat had proposed. In rereading, I have no idea how I came to that conclusion. Apologies.

As for the Great Previously Debate, I think Cindy & I have different definitions of "redundant." Ideally, we'd have one previously thread for Buffy and Angel, and one thread for new Angels, but since there is a sentimental desire to keep a thread named "Buffy", I think we should keep Buffy, Angel, and Previously.

How about something like: Previously, on Buffy (oh, and Angel)

That's fine, Trudy, if folks want to dump the regular Buffy thread. But I don't think people want to do that (and I tend to agree with them).

Maybe A Buffy Forever and Always thread in lieu of the bunch we have now?

We keep talking about redundancies and combining threads but there is no reason to have a Previously thread that's just about Buffy and a Buffy thread when there are no new Buffy episodes. That's two threads talking about the exact same topic right there.

There seems to be a lot of agreement with that. The current proposal is to either discontinue the Previously thread, or if not convert it to a Previously on Angel thread, to reflect the fact that Angel starts syndication in the fall.

I know we have to make some tough decisions, and we may have to cut some threads that will make a lot of people unhappy, and ultimately, if we have to ccut the Buffy thread, I guess we'll just have to cut it.

But I say again, we are not called the Previouslyistas, we are called the Buffistas, and keeping the Buffy thread open is, IMHO, the one real way we have of paying homage to the show that spawned us.

Which I guess is just my way of saying that if it's between Previously and Buffy, I think we should keep Buffy, and I'm at least a little puzzled that anybody would pick different on a board called Buffistas.

But maybe that's just me.

(EtA: Also, I am possibly misunderstanding askye and Trudy's position)

Not just you Sean.