Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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!
The other House and PR fans seem to be doing fine, and as someone with no interest in either show, it doesn't bother me in the least to skip over the discussion.
I understand that, but I also think it is possible that others may have other needs. I feel like there have been a couple of attempts to shut me down here and I'm not/have not been trying to be combative.
I will go away quietly from this thread if my comments are not appreciated.
I understand that, but I also think it is possible that others may have other needs
Sorry--I should have prefaced with connie's quote. I turned away from the computer mid-post, and am out of sequence. It was her I was responding to.
LeN, I think the issue is that the specific proposal on the table is for an HBO/Showtime thread. A General TV thread would have to be a separate proposal in Bureaucracy.
I don't want to propose a general thread. That's not the nature of my questions. I was inquiring about the efficacy of the current proposal. I just didn't find it to be narrow enough such that shows couldn't be already discussed in Natter.
Deadwood, The Sopranos and Rome are all on their last seasons.
True. And The Wire has only one more at most.
I'm gonna point and nod vigorously at What Nutty Said.
At the rate we are going we need a scorecard on the front page to point out which threads have which shows.
The main reason, it seems, that Deadwood talk moved into Movies was that Movies moves more slowly than Natter and some people can't keep up with Natter. In general, we've tended to award a show its own thread on basis of its disrupting Natter with its talk, rather than its explicitly moving out of Natter in order to find a space where it can have a higher signal-to-noise ratio. This would seem to be rewarding rule-breaking for a very small audience, rather than relieving the eyeballs of a very big audience. Thoughts?
I agree with most of this (I'm just not worried about rewarding rule-breaking). For me the reason not to create a new thread is that it deprives other threads of activity, conversation, mix. When a topic is drowning out the good mix then I think a new thread is warranted. Otherwise I think it's a net negative to other threads.
But we're Buffistas. Who talk about dead shows all the fricking time. If we build it, it'll get used.