It's simple. I slap 'em around a bit, torture 'em, make their lives hell...Sure, the nice guys'll run away,but every now and then you'll find a prince like Spike who gets off on it.

Buffy ,'Get It Done'


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

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!


Gus - Oct 27, 2004 2:33:05 pm PDT #4880 of 10289
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

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.


le nubian - Oct 27, 2004 2:33:42 pm PDT #4881 of 10289
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

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.


§ ita § - Oct 27, 2004 2:37:12 pm PDT #4882 of 10289
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

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.


le nubian - Oct 27, 2004 2:38:16 pm PDT #4883 of 10289
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

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


§ ita § - Oct 27, 2004 2:41:30 pm PDT #4884 of 10289
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Only the brave dare twice.

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


le nubian - Oct 27, 2004 2:44:49 pm PDT #4885 of 10289
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

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?


Gus - Oct 27, 2004 2:47:00 pm PDT #4886 of 10289
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

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.


Topic!Cindy - Oct 27, 2004 2:49:46 pm PDT #4887 of 10289
What is even happening?

Well, for the record, I want deep spoilers about O.C., and don't about Lost. Lite, as defined, does nothing for me
Gus, what do you think of this: Topic!Cindy "Voting Discussion: We're Screwing In Light Bulbs AIFG!" Oct 27, 2004 4:07:10 pm PDT

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.


P.M. Marc - Oct 27, 2004 2:50:29 pm PDT #4888 of 10289
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

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

I'd still be irked. I'm pretty much a no-fucking-whitefont hardliner. Also, I don't WATCH Lost.


Burrell - Oct 27, 2004 2:50:48 pm PDT #4889 of 10289
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

but I will add that the previous spoiler lite policy was, imho, bad for discussion.

This is very inaccurate.

I'm sorry Wolfram. You must have meant to say "I disagree," not "This is very inaccurate." I simply expressed my own opinion, and I think I have a clearer sense of what that is than you do.