Harmony ,'Help'
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!
Movies doens't work for me, either, Amych.
I think it has to do with my brain being single focused and wanting to discuss X right NOW and not wade through stuff to get there. Same reason Literary doesn't work quite right either. I want discussion, not just, I read X what did you think?
I can't see the movies analogy working for my usage of a TV thread. It's reasonably easy for me to scroll back to the start of the have-seen-Troy discussion and read what I missed. But not easy enough to always do it.
Dropping in to talk about last week's Alias? Never gonna do it. The positioning will make it impractical. And I can't even highlight all the whitefont, because I know I haven't seen Murphy's Law yet, so I'm skipping from post to post, highlighting as I go.
It seems at best a resource hog, at worst hard to navigate.
Boxed doesn't bother me one way or another. There's just not much to talk about in there -- Farscape and Due South are not running regularly, the Smallville fans have altered the way they look at the show -- nothing catches fire there. However, if Smallville were better and all the shows in the header were on the air, it'd be fine -- but I'd also think it'd be at the upper end of how many shows one thread could support.
I was actually about to withdraw the recs thread suggestion, as the consensus is it isn't useful. If somebody wants to propose a general TV thread, I'll second, though.
I'm glad to see Betsy withdrawing the recs thread idea.
I personally hate the idea of the general tv thread as well, but that's because while I agree with amych on this:
I've always suspected that if it were a general thread, it would interest me more rather than less: I could treat it more like the movies thread
In my case, that translates to not bothering with the thread at all, anymore than I bother with the music thread. The General Blankety Blank Threads just don't interest me.
Wolfram has made the following proposal:
Proposal: To have a Book Club thread wherein a specific book (or books) would be discussed Buffista style on a specific time rotation (weekly, biweekly or monthly.) All the fine details, including method of book selection, number of books per rotation, length of rotation, and length of discussion period, would be hammered out exclusively in the proposed thread by the denizens thereof.
Purpose: The purpose of the thread is to accomodate an expressed desire by a number of Buffistas in Literary to have such a thread to allow focused and uninhibited discussion on a particular text as well as providing us with an opportunity and excuse to read and discuss books that may be outside our usual genre.
Originally posted here:
Wolfram "Bureaucracy 3: Oh, so now you want to be part of the SOLUTION?" Jul 5, 2004 5:10:37 pm PDT
I think it is an excellent idea. My vote is yes.
My initial thought is that this could be done in the current Literary thread. It's not high-volume most of the time, or at least not regularly, so I don't see why, say, the first week of a month couldn't include a focused discussion on a particular text.
It could be the literary version of a watch and post.
I see the difference mainly in that the current Literary thread would have to be heavily white-fonted in that format, whereas a dedicated thread would allow for open discussion. I would suggest, however, that a Press post be used to designate any time a new book is "assigned" along with the date discussion on it will begin.