Mal: That's not what I saw. You like to tell me what really happened? Book: I surely would. And maybe someday I will.

'Safe'


Voting Discussion: We're Screwing In Light Bulbs AIFG!  

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!


brenda m - Oct 16, 2004 1:44:34 pm PDT #4672 of 10289
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

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


Gus - Oct 16, 2004 1:47:11 pm PDT #4673 of 10289
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

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.


brenda m - Oct 16, 2004 1:57:17 pm PDT #4674 of 10289
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

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.


Katie M - Oct 16, 2004 2:06:15 pm PDT #4675 of 10289
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies

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


Gus - Oct 16, 2004 2:09:02 pm PDT #4676 of 10289
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

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.


§ ita § - Oct 16, 2004 2:10:06 pm PDT #4677 of 10289
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.


brenda m - Oct 16, 2004 2:19:14 pm PDT #4678 of 10289
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

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.


brenda m - Oct 16, 2004 2:19:47 pm PDT #4679 of 10289
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

§ ita § - Oct 16, 2004 2:20:17 pm PDT #4680 of 10289
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

So the whitefont problems remain, then?

eta: nevermind, too tangential.


Gus - Oct 16, 2004 2:20:21 pm PDT #4681 of 10289
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

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

The distinction to me is that the charter of the thread is watch-n-post, meaning that if someone has a thoughtful dissertation on last week's Lost to post, and it gets embedded in the middle of a flurry of Veronica Mars posts, sobeit.

If two postable shows are on at the same time, I think the interested parties will be able to sort out the entries that interest them.