Well, all I can say that knowing that Riley was leaving meant that I spent most of the first half of season 5 WAITING for him to leave, that I LOOOVED not knowing the Dru was coming back in The Trial and I base my "no casting spoilers" feelings based on that.

On the other hand knowing that Gina Torres will be in Alias just makes me very happy and excited.

LeN, but won't the whitefont in the Spoiler thread piss people there off? Isn't that what you're trying to get away from?

As for "main threads" -- there are only a handful (and a small hand of that) of main threads. I don't think there should be spoilers posted in Natter. So, for that reason, I support a spoiler announcement thread. One where you can actually say, IN THERE, what the spoiler is, whitefonted, behind a succinct description [cast change] or [new character] or [recurring character reappears] or [synopsis of finale].

and light spoiler discussion goes in main threads with spoilers and discussion in white font as per policy.

If I remember correctly, policy is that the only spoilers that are allowed for discussion in main threads are casting spoilers having to do with regular, credits characters--and those don't need whitefont. Is that right, or am I misremembering?

Is that right, or am I misremembering?

I think it's that you can say Alan Tudyk is appearing on Buffy, but you couldn't say Julie Benz was.

ita,

in the Buffy/Angel spoiler threads there was still some white font on occasion. Specifically if there was a huge fucking event - people often white fonted that. So for instance, major character deaths are white fonted to allow people some time to leave if they really don't want to be underwater with spoilers.

However, the hardest core of us still didn't white font no matter what. It was up to the poster, but the thread was anything goes. So the wording of my previous post was to let people still white font if the spoiler was big enough to need it or if the poster wanted to. I just didn't want to BAN it out of hand.

The main credits spoiler policy was for changes made over the summer only. (i.e., JM joining the cast of Angel, VK and CC leaving.)

Casting changes made during the season require whitefont or a spoiler thread.

I would definitely not want spoilers, even whitefonted, in Natter. Other than that, I have no opinion, because the level of spoiledness is, to me, completely mystifying. I'm either completely, utterly, totally spoiled, or not at all, for a specific show. Which means that I personally am unlikely to use the current spoilers thread.

the hardest core of us still didn't white font no matter what

Which means that if you (a member of the hard core) wanted to share or discuss something huge, it might not be whitefonted, right? I think banning whitefont is unnecessary, but putting it into the definition might set up unrealistic expectations of protection.

If there is to be a spoiler of type light, that's allowable in certain places under certain presentation options, we'd better be REALLY clear about how that's defined.

Okay, here's another option:

what if we had another thread that was a general show thread for 3-5 tv shows. So say a thread that was: "Veronica Mars", "Charmed", "O.C." (add others here). Allowed spoilers in white in this thread.

That would keep some spoiler discussion out of Natter. I'm wondering if we just need to add another show thread (for multiple shows) instead of a Spoiler Lite thread.

Well, if we make the 3-5 shows the ones I want to be spoiled on, I'm all for it.

[rereads]

Wait, a mixed bag show thread, not a mixed spoiler thread?

Then we end up with a thread that the timeshifted can't really read until they're up to date on all the shows that are discussed in there.