Glad I'm not, you know, insane. ('Twas the Torez Spoiler that kicked it off, yes?)

No, that had it's own spoiler. I seem to dimly recall that it happened because the Pure as Snow didn't want a whiff of anything, and there was a middle ground where we read TV Guide, read interviews, but didn't seek out wildfeeds or script summary things.

So, in fact, casting of the sort that they didn't try to keep under wraps was ALWAYS considered Lite. The whitefont rules were "when in doubt, white it out!"

An example (whitefonted for NAFDA Smallville info) would be they've cast (insert name here) as Lois Lane, and Margo Kidder will show up in at least one episode.

Of course, soon after its creation, I fell into the land of the hardcore.

No, not really, since she said "I propose" and "I propose." But that's neither here nor there.

Okay, I can continue on but I'm calling it a draw.

Now, I'm actually pretty confused and have no idea if my proposal would help the situation at all. I'm stymied. I really don't know what to do. I couldn't even begin to put a ballot together because I'm not sure what options would suit the most people.

You're under no obligation to continue with the current proposal. If you want, you can withdraw the proposal and people who want other specifics are free to re-propose accordingly. (I don't know if that's explicit in the voting rules, but there's certainly precedent.) Not that you have to do that either.

Actually, I think if the topic was noted in bold on a no-whitefont thread, I could skim past the stuff I don't want to read.

Before abandoning the proposal, it might be nice to have a poll to size up how many people are interested in a no-whitefont thread. My sense is plenty, but that is just a guess.

Okay, this is what I'd like to do. I'd like discussion to run through Sunday and then see.

I could have proposed no whitefont in Spoilers, but if I had wanted to do that, I would have just taken care of that in the Spoilers thread. I thought the addition of another thread would be the useful to the most people. See, I couldn't care less about whitefonting. It really doesn't bother me. But others feel a lot more passionately about it on either side and I figured the Spoilers Lite could solve those issues.

I would have just taken care of that in the Spoilers thread.

But then people would have more than 4 days to bitch and whine. This way, I have to shut up come Monday.

You know I'm never bringing a proposal to B'cracy ever again, right? :-)

Only the brave dare twice.

Hey -- does anyone know, easily, what the proposal leaderboard looks like? Anyone made more than one? Two?

What if we had a Lost spoiler thread that was hard-core and left the current one with white font for other shows?

Would enough people find this acceptable to make this a valid option on the ballot?

What if we had a Lost spoiler thread that was hard-core and left the current one with white font for other shows?

Hits all my issues.

Well, for the record, I want deep spoilers about O.C., and don't about Lost. Lite, as defined, does nothing for me

Cindy, that suggestion could work, but would anyone bother to post twice?

Most probably wouldn't, Lyra. Some people like full on spoilers, and will post in the no white-font thread. Some people will rather pick and choose by show and by spoiler type, and will stick to the [for now unclassified] thread. Wasteful? Maybe, but no more wasteful than what's on the table. We're still talking about the underepurposing of Spoilers 3, back to an unfettered zone, and adding (back) another thread for "lite"(or otherwise more restrained), even if we don't do that.

Our traditionally defined Lite doesn't allow for a lot of spoiler discussion people (other than Gus and ita, I swear they weren't the only ones who liked the Spoilers 3 thread the way it currently is, but I can't remember whom).

Half the time, the old Buffy/Angel spoiler thread, was filled with show discussion, so that we didn't have to worry about accidentally spoiling the unspoiled.