It's funny, Cindy -- I was about to post this whole elaborate highway metaphor, about how other TV shows were part of the same highway as Buffy, but pets or body image were off-ramps, and then you post about being lost.

(Okay, it was funny in my head.)

I do think adding any new thread is a slight change in direction. I don't think adding these will make for a major change compared to where we are now, though of course we can't know that until they're up and running.

Also -- Kat's idea for the general reality thread was interesting. What would the support for that be like, if I added it to the proposal?

I'd be for it, more than for a thread for any single reality show.

Does anyone else feel lost?

Yes.

How about this: A Watch-n-Post thread for whatever. Lost or debates or Veronica Mars, etc. This would leech whitefont away from Natter, and provide a place for people to go to find discussion about a show.

eta: Natter is sort of a utility thread. Things that don't fit elsewhere go there. Watch-n-Post is a discrete use, easily classified.

Hee. I suggested that a while back. I still think it's a decent idea, though I was also thinking that it would be helpful if people wanted to Nilly the start of discussion for either shows or even just nights of the week - which would, IME, side-step any whitefont issue. Even without that, I think it'd be okay.

Well, okay, but once we do that we've got the General TV Thread, right?

Should have known someone else had this idea earlier. Sorry I missed it when you first brought it up, Brenda. It seems like "This show rocks!" is going to come up at least once every season. It seems like a good idea to have some mechanism in place to handle that traffic, without having to go through this My Show thread discussion every time.

eta:

Well, okay, but once we do that we've got the General TV Thread, right?

Sorta. The focus would be on watch and post, was the thought, though.

I'm guessing there's a distinction between watching and posting and discussing.

I don't know what it is, but there you go.

I'm not sure how the watch and post of, say, Jack and Bobby vs. Desperate Housewives is going to go, and it's not much use to time shifters or left-coasters, but the latter two are standard.

Well, my original thought was that judicious use of Nillys could lead people to the stuff they want to find, with an assumption that discussion would probably overlap into the next few days. I could probably explain my thoughts on that more clearly, but for now, I think we've moved beyond the point when we were throwing out ideas before there was a proposal on the table. I'd rather just go ahead and vote on the two or so shows that Lyra chooses to put out there and see where that takes us.

So the whitefont problems remain, then?

eta: nevermind, too tangential.