Personally, I think it's more confusing and discussion inhibiting than having 24 hour whitefont for everything. I'd be second guessing everything I posted in regular font.

That's the thing. If you're a regular in the thread and you know that I want contestant x to win and my comment is "Oh shit! I can't believe that just happened. I'm never watching this show again." is it really any different from me saying that contestant x was eliminated?

I think this would be particularly difficult for reality shows, where so much of what's being commented on is directly related to who's out and who's still in. I would probably just read night of show and save my posts for the morning when I wouldn't have to worry about what I was saying. Which, as I said earlier, would be a drag for watch and posts.

That's my concern too, Liese. Of the four, Cable Drama was the only one with whitefont rules, and it barely broke 100 posts, compared to the 700 or so in the other threads.

And people seemed very excited to have a place to discuss The Riches at first, so I'm not convinced it was a lack of enthusiasm for the thread subject.

I'm still unsure of what's wrong with whitefont. Are people opposed to it because it's a PITA to compose your posts?

I think there's a number of factors, including the fact that reading or posting from most phone browsers means that whitefont doesn't work. Most phone browsers don't really handle the quick tags.

I'd rather no white font for this thread than full on 24 hour.

As would I. But I'd prefer either option to the "whitefont eliminated contestant/winner" scenario.

Oh yeah. I forgot about the phone browsers.

Here's the thing: what about having a no white font rule until we sort out what happens with other "bucket threads." I'm in agreement that different white font rules can be confusing.

I don't mind a 24 hour whitefont rule, it's how we have to discuss stuff in Natter in the first place. Although I guess it would be werid doing whitefont for non competetion shows like How it Works or Dirty Jobs.

I'm still unsure of what's wrong with whitefont. Are people opposed to it because it's a PITA to compose your posts?

It's a PITA for me to read. And to tell the truth, I find myself erring on the side of caution and WFing more than I would otherwise because I don't remember the rules from thread to thread. But it's not something that bothers me enough to fight about.

I'm in agreement with le nubian. Let's put it on hold until we see how it shakes out with the (hypothetical) other new threads. It would be massively confusing if they all had different whitefont rules.

Yeouch. I think trying to come up with a blanket WF rule for multiple threads, which aren't even known at this point, is opening a huge can of worms.