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.

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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.

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.

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So the whitefont problems remain, then?

How so?

I think an actual watch and post thread would be Bad News, and I'm not even a person who craves Serious Discussion. Just because watch and post is pretty inherently goofy. It's all "OMG!" "Wait, what did he say?"

At any rate, all of this discussion is tangential to the actual proposal before us, but that doesn't make it a bad thing. Says the person who, every so often, wants us to have the big bad Who Are We, And Where Are We Going discussion.

I also just want to point out that I really like our decision-making process, because it only takes a few people to suggest something, but it takes a lot more people to make it happen, or not.