we can add new threads to reflect new obsessions, or we can stagnate

You really think it's that clear cut and binary? Are we stagnating now? What are the signs?

Cindy, thanks. I think I made it more backasswards than it needed to be -- I was trying to simplify, and ended up complicating, as often happens.

Well, given some of the decisions we've made in our usual assforewards way, I'm not sure backasswards (which I meant to type as "bassackwards" because it's less of a judgment, to me, anyhow) is a bad approach for us, right now. The topic keeps coming up. The topic keeps dying (and I think that's because even the Buffistas who might want a new thread for any given show agree we don't want to become TWoP). It'll be good to find out, if how we're doing things now is what most people who'll vote want, or not.

Having a penchant for numbers and a weird running counter in my head, I have to point out that over half of the latest Natter 500 have been Lost whitefonted.

I would call that a market.

Gus, I counted 62. I could be off, but off by 190?

Adding a half a dozen teevee threads just moves us closer to TWoPness.

That's what I meant when I said that it seems like this proposal is really about reshaping the board.

And frankly, maybe some of my personal resistance to creating new show threads is that I for one *haven't* discovered a new obsession, and my suspicion is that creating a thread for it ain't gonna make it appear.

Gus, I counted 62. I could be off, but off by 190?

Holy crap.

t takes hammer to weird in-head counter

t tables examination of what post filter was at work during skim

Still, better than 32% of the posts in 500 seems significant.

Still, better than 32% of the posts in 500 seems significant.

62 posts out of 500 would be 12.4%, wouldn't it?

Still, better than 32% of the posts in 500 seems significant.

See, someone needs to do some research and find out what percentage demanded the creation of other threads that purportedly overwhelmed Natter. I think I recall someone saying that's how LOTR was created, but I'm not sure about the others like Movies, Music, and Lit, etc.

Adding a half a dozen teevee threads just moves us closer to TWoPness.

I don't think anyone is talking about adding half a dozen threads; it will depend on the poll results, but one or two, possibly three, seems more likey based on the discussion, and even that is far from certain. I can kind of understand that if you don't want new threads at all, one is as bad as ten, but I want to make sure no one thinks six new threads are being seriously proposed.

See, someone needs to do some research and find out what percentage demanded the creation of other threads that purportedly overwhelmed Natter.

Movies and music were created more because they were lost in Natter than the other way around, P-C. Our bandwidth fears were less pronounced, and it was the days before voting, so people who really wanted them were able to lobby and get them started. I'm not sure about LotR, but I think ti was similar.