Project Runway, Top Chef?

Yes, all those, just trying to give a range. (Also make people who hate reality not feel like it's an all-reality thread proposal.)

It will be an all-reality thread once I get my hands on it! Muahahaha!

...I mean, no, of course not.

So a show like NoiseDesign mentioned, or a documentary (History channel stuff, etc.) might go in there, too. Hmmm.

I'm more intrigued by that now than I was before. OTOH, that sounds like prime Natter fodder that I'd be sorry to take out of there.

Ghost Hunters in Natter? See, once again that falls to the point that I can't keep up in Natter. I'd like a few threads where I can post about something and actually come back in few hours and find a few more posts on the subject and add something to it. Threads like Natter are all about the here and now for me. I might as well be talking about the show in a multi-person IM. One of the things that I like about forums is that I can post something, get pulled away for a few hours, and then jump back in. I don't find that I can do that in threads like Natter. If the discussion doesn't keep generating posts then it gets lost in the other discussions. This is another one of the reasons I also end up having problems with bucket threads.

I'm inclined to include the non-fiction show thread in the experiment. I think there are some shows people like to talk about in Natter and other shows people talk about in Natter, because there's no place else to talk about them. I'd hate to see us ever take TV all the way out of Natter. Some people are always going to prefer that. Some people are going to prefer it for some shows. Some people are always going to hate it. The thought of anything that isn't trollish being "off-topic" for Natter rubs me more wrong than a conversation possibly happening in two threads.

I went back to see where the thread nannying happened in Natter that GC was talking about. At first, nobody thread nannied. There were a few exchanges back and forth about Rome. Then someone asked if the people talking about Rome could white font more of the conversation. After another exchange or two, there was the pointer to Boxed Set. Beej "Natter Five-O: Book 'Em, Danno." Mar 25, 2007 10:18:07 pm PDT

Hey Buffistas, any more opinions on the white/black font for the experimental threads? If you think we need white font, how many days sound reasonable to you?

I'd like a few threads where I can post about something and actually come back in few hours and find a few more posts on the subject and add something to it. Threads like Natter are all about the here and now for me. I might as well be talking about the show in a multi-person IM. One of the things that I like about forums is that I can post something, get pulled away for a few hours, and then jump back in. I don't find that I can do that in threads like Natter.

Are there existing threads that fit this model that you are thinking of here?

I like the idea of whitefont in a multi-show thread, because I'm sometimes watching everything a day late, and I'd hate to get spoiled for Thursday's show when I've just watched Wednesday's. But I guess blackfont works in Boxed Set, right? I don't watch any of those shows, so I don't really know.

I'm definitely in favor of blackfont once something has aired. Once it's aired, heck, you could get spoiled just visiting Slate or Salon or chatting with a co-worker. What are you supposed to do, lock yourself in a box?