Though it sucks for those that try to wade through Boxed. Perhaps one of the test threads can be for shows that are currently whitefonted in Boxed?

This has been repeated a couple of times (and I know I'm screaming into the wind this point), but it's not whitefont or wading that makes Boxed Set suck for some people.

The problem with Boxed Set is getting spoiled for shows you're a season behind on but still want to watch, while trying to talk about shows you are caught up on.

Like, say someone was really behind on BSG and waiting for the DVDs to come out to catch up on the last season, or behind on one SG but not the other, but you really really want to talk about the SG you are caught up on, or you want to talk about SPN.

All of the sudden, Boxed Set isn't about sucking because you have to wade through irrellevant posts or whitefont, it's a place you can't go in at all.

You take SG out of Boxed Set, you break Boxed Set.

But from my perspective Boxed Set is already broken. That's the thing.

When we start talking about altering established threads, we move beyond buckets and into the realm of thread culture. I am sorry that the thread doesn't work for everyone, because I'm sure we'd all love to have ND and Sean and Kristin and others posting in there about BSG or other shows. But that thread has been around a long time, and there's a base of posters who like that thread the way it is for more reasons than simply what shows are discussed in there. As Nutty mentioned in the last TV debate, it's not just a TV discussion thread, it's a mediafannish thread. Shows, especially the Stargates, are discussed in a way that's particular to media fandom (rather than just general TV discussion, or even Buffista TV discussion). I'm not saying that's all that goes on in there, but I feel like moving the Stargates would be the equivalent of taking all discussions of corsets or makeup or motherhood out of Bitches.

(I hope that doesn't sound dismissive of Bitches, because it's completely not intended.)

I'm not saying that's all that goes on in there, but I feel like moving the Stargates would be the equivalent of taking all discussions of corsets or makeup or motherhood out of Bitches.

I tend to agree. Boxed Set is more than the sum of its shows.

If it's about the way that they are discussed, is there a way for us to have another place for us to discuss them? Keep them in both perhaps?

I used to post on SG1 back before all of the thread merging made Boxed Set too big for me to handle. I may have even been in favor, or at least indifferent to the merge at the time, but what ended up happening is that I lost posting about some of the shows I like.

If it's about the way that they are discussed, is there a way for us to have another place for us to discuss them? Keep them in both perhaps?

That's fine with me, but I think I can hear ita screaming from here.

I don't necessarily have a problem with being able to discuss certain things in more than one place, either.

On the font question: all whitefont all the time with show headers does seem like it would prevent accidental spoilage, but just picturing a whole screen of whitefont is weirding me out. Is that how Spoilers Lite works? Do people hang out there and discuss things, or just nip in and out with information?

I don't necessarily have a problem with being able to discuss certain things in more than one place, either.

I think I''m misremembering...But didn't this conversation come out of a desire to incorporate certain shows into the premium thread, moving the conversation there?

A bucket thread is not something I personally am interested in and the shows I watch are not at the top of the list for new-thread-dom. That being said, I wager that if a bucket thread is created for the shows I do watch, I prolly won't participate, but will continue to whitefont about them in Natter.

Am I going to shushed to the door and told that they are discussing it in TVish threads?

I hope not. If we started regulating Natter, it wouldn't be Natter.