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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!
I'd be even leerier of discussing real spoilers in Natter than in a Spoiler Lite thread.
I want, for instance, so be an OC spoiler ho once the first ep has aired. I love being filthy spoiled for Charmed. I don't want to be spoiled for Lost. Wouldn't mind it for Desperate Housewives. Don't want it for Spooks or Jack & Bobby or 24. Haven't decided about Alias yet, but there's time.
ita is the Meg Ryan Orders a Salad of Spoilers.
My preference, whatever it's worth, would be:
Spoilers -- Open discussion, no whitefont (except possibly at the poster's discretion).
Spoilers Lite -- Episode titles, guest stars, writers not in whitefont; TV guide-esque tidbits in whitefont; anything harder linked to.
Why does one need to link to the writers, instead of including them in thread?
I thought I remembered the old lite including casting spoilers -- in fact, having been made for them.
And writers used to be whitefonted in the show threads, and openly discussed in all levels of spoils threads. I don't want to sound all "this is how we've always done it", but how lite is lite?
I thought I remembered the old lite including casting spoilers -- in fact, having been made for them.
That's how I remember it, too.
In fact, here's the thread header from the Lite Spoiler threads we had here:
[NAFDA] The place for casting and other vague spoilers, for those who merely want to wade, not drown, in the spoiler sea. Casting spoilers are okay, as are non-plot-point specific spoilers (like, "Joss says the theme of Season 7 is ____"). White-fonting is always appreciated. Information from Magazines like TV Guide may also come up.
In fact, here's the thread header from the Lite Spoiler threads we had here:
Glad I'm not, you know, insane. ('Twas the Torez Spoiler that kicked it off, yes?)
I plan to vote for a lite thread no matter how it's defined, because I've had the sense that it's been genuinely missed. But I'm being naggy about the definition because the whole reason I never participated in the old one was that I found it so tricky to figure out what could be discussed there (is this casting or plot? is it a major plot point or a leitmotiv?) that it never seemed (when I dropped in) to take off into discussion.
And because I'm just a little deeply resentful over the fact that the new spoilers thread I voted on was whitefont policy tbd and all of a sudden it was all whitefont all the time with no discussion that I can find anywhere.
Spoilers Lite -- Episode titles, guest stars, writers not in whitefont; TV guide-esque tidbits in whitefont; anything harder linked to.
LJ is me. I'm basically a spoiler prude, except when it comes to casting, and then I like to discuss it. I think that "negative casting" (folks leaving the show) should be whitefonted.
And because I'm just a little deeply resentful over the fact that the new spoilers thread I voted on was whitefont policy tbd and all of a sudden it was all whitefont all the time with no discussion that I can find anywhere.
The only reason I put the whitefont thing in the header for the new spoilers thread was to err on the side of caution until the final policy could be worked out. People had discussed both ways prior to the vote. I didn't mean for it to be set in stone.