Anya ,'Showtime'
We open it up, we talks the talk, we votes, we shuts it down. This thread is to free up Bureaucracy for daily details as we hammer out the Big Issues towards a vote. Open only when a proposal has been made and seconded according to Buffista policy (Which we voted on!). If this thread is closed, hie thee to Bureaucracy instead!
Is there a strong bullshit consensus for including Farscape in with the rest?
I threadsucked. Betsy HP, askye, brenda m, SeanK, SA, and Fay didn't think it belonged with the rest. Consuela, Katie M, and ita had no problems with consolidation. DavidS didn't want any of them consolidated. SeanK, Consuela, and Jess PMoon said they'd be OK with cutting the thread entirely.
I've got a ballot ready to go and the wording of each item has been approved by Kat. Unless she wants to make changes, I'm going with it as is.
I'm including the preamble and pro/con arguments in the ballot itself, rather than having a separate page for them. I don't think the page is too crowded and it will be easier for voters to follow along.
DX, I've set votes.at.buffistas.org to go to your profile address.
Jon B., the pro/con was a lot of work and really helpful. I appreciate it a lot because I was going to volunteer to do one and I thought it would crush me. You rule.
Jon, you totally rock. Thank you for doing all of the pro-con stuff. I know i'm not right minded enough to handle that.
Also thank you for the ballot and the preamble.
If posisble, the Preamble I'd like to see:
The last Buffy episode has been aired in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, etc., and some of our threads have become redundant. It's housecleaning time! To the extent possible, it's best to get this all out of the way now, before the US fall TV season begins.
In addition, we recently learned that our current usage is overloading our server. We areworking on coding changes to improve this, so there's no need to panic and implement draconian cuts, but removing redundancies on our board will help the situation because more open threads usually leads to more posts, pages loaded and database. Think of our current situation as thread sprawl. Consolidating threads will be a bit like carpooling, allowing our system to operate more effectively.
That's a good change to the preamble, Kat. I'll add it in.
oops. . . Dropped word in there, Jon. I hope you grabbed it.
The last Buffy episode has been aired in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, etc., and some of our threads have become redundant. It's housecleaning time! To the extent possible, it's best to get this all out of the way now, before the US fall TV season begins.
In addition, we recently learned that our current usage is overloading our server. We are working on coding changes to improve this, so there's no need to panic and implement draconian cuts, but removing redundancies on our board will help the situation because more open threads usually leads to more posts, more pages loaded and more database usage. Think of our current situation as thread sprawl. Consolidating threads will be a bit like carpooling, allowing our system to operate more effectively.
One too many mojitos before posting.
I threadsucked. Betsy HP, askye, brenda m, SeanK, SA, and Fay didn't think it belonged with the rest. Consuela, Katie M, and ita had no problems with consolidation. DavidS didn't want any of them consolidated. SeanK, Consuela, and Jess PMoon said they'd be OK with cutting the thread entirely.
To be honest, I'd prefer cutting the thread entirely than combining it with Due South and Smallville. I can always have impromtu Farscape conversations in either Natter or Bitches, but I really have no interest in Due South, Smallville, or Stargate.
t /eleventh hour two cents
At this point, I'd say that if we want to cut Farscape, that we propose it afterwards as a separate vote.
I'll post something in Press, and then I'm going to bed.
I have a correction to offer in the voting.....
There are 14 Firefly eps, 3 which have not aired in the US. A 15th was not filmed.
3. We should close and archive the Firefly quotable thread as soon as technically possible.
Pro: There are only 12 episodes out there so this can easily be folded into the regular Firefly thread.
Con: 3 of those 12 episodes have not yet aired in the US. We should wait until sometime after the complete series is released on DVD in December before closing this thread.
Essentially:
Serenity (2 hours)
The Train Job
Bushwhacked
Shindig
Safe
Our Mrs. Reynolds
Jaynestown
Out of Gas
Dead or Alive (not filmed)
Ariel
War Stories
Trash (not US)
The Message (not US)
Heart of Gold (not US)
Objects in Space (restored)