Sounds OK in theory, but I don't think it will work in practice, since

• There's no way we can keep natter out of the thread.
• There isn't a whole lot of teevee to post about. When the thread is created, everyone will sound in on the shows they like and dislike, then there will be nothing to talk about.

The only advantage I see is that it's an archive of sorts: unlike Natter, you can go to the thread a month later and find the recommendations when you want them.

Of course, given how the networks are treating shows these days, the interesting show mentioned a month ago might be cancelled.

Maybe what we want/need isn't a recs thread, but something actually more like the links page-- something automated where a buffista could add the name of the show/book/movie and their recommendation? So it is an archive rather than discussion? Of course, we would actually have to do it, or have someone who wants to Nilly the recs out of the respective threads.

I am leaving so I can't discuss...

I'd rather see a general TV thread than a recs-only thread. Recs with no discussion sounds too hard to maintain, and it would make it difficult to converse because you'd have to take your response (and you know we'd have them) to another thread -- probably Natter - and hope the original poster found it.

With all Jossverse shows off the air, we're going to be watching other things, and it seems like a General TeeVee thread (or threads; see below) would be the best way to go, rather than cramming it all into Natter.

There could be a couple-few TeeVee threads, arranged around a loose theme: sci-fi, reality TV, sitcoms, non-sitcoms. It could even be theoretically possible to fold the Unofficial SG-1 Thread back into new TeeVee threads.

A recs thread is a bad idea, for all the reasons amych lists above.

I'm in favor of talking about adding a TV thread or two, assuming the board can support it resource-wise, but having thrown Due South on the fire the last time around I'll put in a pre-emptive strike for not wanting to do it again with Boxed Set. (Give it official recognition as the SF/fantasy TV thread, sure.)

Did anyone come up with a solution for the spoiler policies of a general TV thread anyway?

I'm strongly against a new TV thread not because I'm antiproliferation, but because general threads make the conversationunweildy. I'd rather see show specific threads (though that will get cumbersome fast... so it would be board resource dependent) because I want to talk about that show specifically and don't want to wade through conversations of everything on the show grid.

Given that, I kinda like Steph's idea of loose theme topics. Though, since Smallville became rolled up with other sci-fi shows, I find myself irritated with using the thread (or maybe it's with Smallville itself) and read it less and less.

Did anyone come up with a solution for the spoiler policies of a general TV thread anyway?

It would have to be just like Natter, wouldn't it? Big with the whitefont.