I'm not adding it to the ballot, though I'd be happy to discuss it further if Gus and Brenda want to hammer out the details and come up with a proposal later.

Just to clarify, I was thinking more along the lines of a "what's on tonight" thing, for post-ep analysis rather than just watch and post, which I agree could be ooky. But i'm in total agreement that we should go ahead with what we have on the table rather than trying to devise new things right now. (And, if the proposals on the table do pass, it would likely moot this idea anyway. If they do not pass, then that might be a time to throw some other ideas out there.)

Thanks again to Lyra Jane for all your work on this, and to Jon for putting up the ballot every time we have a vote, and to Lee for vote counting.

Wait. Confused.

I had assumed that closing Angel Spoilers and opening a new general spoilers thread fell under the repurposing option, not the closing option.

If a person were to want that to happen, which option would one vote for?

The ballot looks good. Brenda is me on the Watch-n-Post thing, too. Try the present proprosal, then see if adjustments are desirable.

Oops. OK, so sounds like Debet and I read that differently. And would choose different options even though we might want to be voting for the same thing. Help?

The fear of my deep dark potentially elitist heart? That if our board gives primary focus to shows other than that we were originally drawn together over, that we will avoid stagnation at the cost of attracting an utterly different crowd of people.

I may be completely wrong about this, but weren't the majority of new posters in Firefly and Minearverse brought here by the VIP postings? What I mean is, the peeps who caused the subtle shift (and I might be among them) weren't drawn by the existing Smallville, Due South, Farscape, and LOTR threads. They followed a link from Whedonesque or TV Guide or whereever else they came from. So unless JJ Abrams comes and posts in a Lost thread, I don't think it's going to attract a great number of new posters to our board.

I may be completely wrong about this, but weren't the majority of new posters in Firefly and Minearverse brought here by the VIP postings?

Again, I'll speak up as one data point.

So unless JJ Abrams comes and posts in a Lost thread, I don't think it's going to attract a great number of new posters to our board.

And we could always hide it from Google by calling it the Found thread or something.

But i'm in total agreement that we should go ahead with what we have on the table rather than trying to devise new things right now. (And, if the proposals on the table do pass, it would likely moot this idea anyway. If they do not pass, then that might be a time to throw some other ideas out there.)

Excellent, thanks for clarifying.

And would choose different options even though we might want to be voting for the same thing. Help?

If what you want is for it to be closed and then have a new spoilers thread opened, you would pick close and then wait for someone to propose a new thread, Jen. You'd pick repurpose if you wanted to keep the thread open and use it for general spoilers instead of Angel spoilers.

But it sounds like the repurposing idea, which to me would just mean changing the name on the thread, isn't the best thing for anyone -- even the board, if Jessica is correct. If that's the case, my inclination is to make this vote on Angel Spoilers a straight archive/keep vote, like the other two. What I'm not sure about is whether I should then add a general spoilers thread to this ballot, or leave that for a later proposal.

I may be completely wrong about this, but weren't the majority of new posters in Firefly and Minearverse brought here by the VIP postings?

Sure. There was the TVGuide Channel thing, and with Whedonesque and such, that's bound to happen.

I was going through threads for research, recently, and found that there were lots of people who came in specifically to talk to Joss or Tim, and didn't much engage with anyone else, and then were never seen or heard from again. There's a small incedence of people like Minearnoseeyes people fishing for "celebrity" posts. I don't think it changed the board at all, I think that the end of Buffy and Angel changed things a bit. The one thing most of us had in common and could gather around is gone.

Lost isn't going to bring that back. But I don't think that is what Lyra Jane is saying.

I don't see stagnation, either, though.

we could always hide it from Google by calling it the Found thread or something.

Hiding from google is way overrated, and with a word like "lost" more effort than it could ever be worth.

LJ speaks of repurposing the way I'd always used it.