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

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Jessica - Oct 27, 2004 11:51:54 am PDT #4812 of 10289
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Couldn't it be labeled?

I think the main question is would it get in there at all. Personally, I know I'm way too lazy to be posting spoilers once in the main thread and then again in Lite, whitefonted.


§ ita § - Oct 27, 2004 11:53:54 am PDT #4813 of 10289
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

That seems wasteful to me.

Yeah, me too. Which is why I'm pessimistic. I guess I can just vote against discontinuing whitefonting in the existing thread and be quiet.

I don't think the term Spoilers Lite is doing the main concept here any favours. What there will be is a no holds barred spoiler discussion thread, and a spoiler announcement thread.


sumi - Oct 27, 2004 11:57:15 am PDT #4814 of 10289
Art Crawl!!!

Well if the spoiler announcement site lists episode titles and writers-directors and then links to off-site casting/plot spoilers. And the other site just discusses w/no white font at all.

That would be fine with me.


§ ita § - Oct 27, 2004 12:00:04 pm PDT #4815 of 10289
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm more concerned about the definitions, since I see what I want rushing towards the horizon.

But is that how Spoiler Lite has been discussed here? Discussion-lite, announcement heavy, but no meaty announcements right there -- basically a no-natter zone.

I still don't get the linking rationale. If a friend tells me he's been cast as Jack's father in whatever show, I really have to go make a post in LJ and link back to it?


brenda m - Oct 27, 2004 12:02:54 pm PDT #4816 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

Is there much objection out there to simply having the Lite stuff whitefonted in the regular threads (Lost or Natter or wherever)? As a non-spoiler person, I'd be perfectly happy with that.


sumi - Oct 27, 2004 12:13:09 pm PDT #4817 of 10289
Art Crawl!!!

ita if you know somebody has been cast as the hot new electrician on Desperate Housewives (for example), I can't see why you couldn't post that in white font (if that is what we decide) or directly.

I think sometimes the lightness or not of the spoiler may be up to personal judgement.

Also, I said link because most times it seems like casting spoilers or whatever come from other sites.


sumi - Oct 27, 2004 12:14:55 pm PDT #4818 of 10289
Art Crawl!!!

Also, many of the shows we're talking about are new -- so it is less easy to decide what is going to be catastrophic and ruin hsq and what will not.


§ ita § - Oct 27, 2004 12:15:17 pm PDT #4819 of 10289
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I can't see why you couldn't post that in white font (if that is what we decide) or directly.

If I know that he sleeps with Susan, then do I need to externally host it?

Basically (and here is where the ex-Liters may get pissed) I don't see the point of a thread with no discussion and only half the spoilers. It seems...coy.


sumi - Oct 27, 2004 12:16:23 pm PDT #4820 of 10289
Art Crawl!!!

That's a plot thingy -- wouldn't that go in real spoilers? Or would a real spoiler be that the hot new electrician kills Mike's dog and then sleeps with Susan in Mike's kitchen?


§ ita § - Oct 27, 2004 12:17:17 pm PDT #4821 of 10289
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

wouldn't that go in real spoilers?

But I'm not going into real spoilers. What's the point? I can't participate in discussion there, since I'll get spoiled for Lost.