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.
George Steinbrenner
oops. Lemme try copying again, with the right command this time....
err on the side of caution
I kinda figured as much, actually -- but I brought the matter up over there because I didn't want it to get entrenched before we discussed it. I'm still not sure that something that was supposed to be TBD warrants lightbulbs, but since Lite got attached to the ballot and I'm pro-that, we're all good.
Sorry, I didn't meant to ask for the rationale about linking to writers -- I meant to actual spoilers.
Is the current thought that Spoilers Light is for people who don't want to be spoiled too much about a show, or for people who don't want to be spoiled about too many shows?
Is the current thought that Spoilers Light is for people who don't want to be spoiled too much about a show, or for people who don't want to be spoiled about too many shows?
I think the former: not too spoiled about a show.
Okay, I think there's two different camps with two different thoughts and needs from a general spoilers lite thread here, because I thought the idea was that the new spoilers lite would be for ita's latter description -- for people who don't want to be spoiled about too many shows.
We should clearly delineate what we're talking about, so that the two different camps are not arguing and getting confused over conflicting needs.
So like have spoiler threads grouped by show(s)?
I'm not opposed to that, but how would that work?
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.
Yeah, that kind of bugged me, too. My vision when I put it into the proposal was that the first posts in there would be "okay, what's our whitefont policy?," and we'd hash it out in-thread, as we are now. It seemed like the header set the policy, though I doubt DX meant for it to.
