If there's a stink of nostalgia around these discussions (and I'm the first twelfth to admit there is) I suspect it's because both Spoilers and Lite have been badly missed.
I can't comment on the old Lite discussions, because that thread was never a home for me. In fact, I voted to get rid of it because I thought it was pretty pointless whenever I did drop in, and, being sometimes incredibly thick about reading other people, I was genuinely shocked when people were so upset that it was gone. (Sorry about that.) If we're talking about having some kind of lite thread again, those people are the ones I'm going to listen to about what constitutes a reasonable way to shape that thread. Not out of nostalgia, but because they made what I thought to be an impossible compromise thread work before. (I'm still not gonna hang there. Nothing personal.)
I've already blathered about my thoughts on the question of whitefont in the hardcore thread, both here and in the spoiler thread. For anyone who hasn't dared to venture over there, I'll just restate
the spoiler zone has always been the place to read and write unrestricted, without extra coding, shit to click on, and (absolutely most importantly of all) having to worry all the time about "am I allowed to say that in this particular thread before the third Tuesday after the full moon". It's about being able to put your feet up on the coffee table after the in-laws leave, not about whether [we have to highlight a whitefont].
Spoilers are the meat we've been missing since Angel ended, but the greater value is the feel of the discussion. And that's what I'll vote for.
Deena, if you are a person who wants lite, but not what I'm saying in number 2, could you please explain it to me
Cindy, I'm sorry. It was entirely clear in my mind. Duh. Like Wolfram, I don't want to be spoiled for plot points, but for me, it's not an inadvertent spoil. I'd see the bits of conversation going on and I'd try to look at the stuff that seemed to be on the fringes, and before you know it, I'd know the whole season. I never thought being spoiled or not would matter to me, but I discovered during the last season of Angel that I just enjoyed the show less if I knew what was coming. I just have no self-control if it's right there in front of me.
I'd be okay with Brenda's #2.
Okay folks, I understand that a Lost or nothing thread has no appeal. That's clearly off the table.
So, it sounds to me like the choices will be two threads: one white-font, one no holds barred.
I shouldn't even bother to post if I can't do it without it being hopelessly out of date (baby emergency). Sorry LeN. I'm just trying to help. I shall stop it. I agree that the two you've named make the most sense.
You do realize Le Nub, that when you blithely proposed the thread in Bureaucracy, all the battle-scarred veterans were holding their breath, as if the new Mom in the neighborhood had volunteered to organize the bake sale with no knowledge of the hot cross bun riot of '82.
That one was a bitch. Icing and raisins everywhere.
(laughing out loud)
no. I did not realize this. :-)
no. I did not realize this. :-)
Yeah, if you go back to Spoilers you'll see that I'm the first person to raise the issue. And then again, I was the person to raise the issue in Bureau. But did I propose the thread? No. 'Cuz I knew you'd just shrug if I said the phrase "preferential voting" whereas for most of us there's an involuntary flinch at its mention.
Is it a flinch? I always think of it as more of a twitch.
(edited to remove evil)
