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.

It would be massively confusing if they all had different whitefont rules.

I mentioned this earlier, in the other thread, but yes, this. Especially for newer folks.

I can embrace whitefont for new movies and that sort of thing, but it just feels like a chore to read it and participate with it for pages and pages. I'm one of those who'd rather avoid a thread than have to highlight or stop and figure out what portions of my post should be whitefont.

I guess, really, perhaps I'm just lazy. Whitefont, even though it's polite, feels like work.

I would very much like to see this be voted on independently of any other possible new threads, if possible. I think there is much more agreement/lack of disagreement about this one than there is for the others, and there's going to have to be a lot more hashing out when the others come up for a vote.

No whitefont seemed fine in the experiment thread, really. I was just trying to make it PERFECT. For me.

Can we have the whitefont or no whitefont as a secondary question on the vote? I'm personally fine with it either way.

I actually like being spoiled for the eliminees in competitions, at least. I don't always TiVo them, so having somwhere to go to find out who got bumped is a benefit. The finales, NSM, those I'd like white-fonted. Otherwise, I don't think we really need WF for the thread. So many of these shows are repeated frequently to the point where who even knows when the first airing was? I'm talking Deadliest Catch and stuff like that. Those shows are just fun to say, WTF did you see that? Man Vs. Wild? Egad!

Can we have the whitefont or no whitefont as a secondary question on the vote? I'm personally fine with it either way

Yes. I don't think whitefront rules for Nonfic and rules for Drama/Comedy should be the same; the two threads obviously functioned differently. So in the final proposal-to-vote, there should be options for:

NAFDA

24 hour whitefront

72 hour whitefront

I think anything longer than 72 hours would be ridiculous for a nonfic thread.

Does that work?

Also, just to be clear--we want this to be a non-fiction thread and not a reality show thread, yes? I think it's imporant to make the distinction here, because they very well could be two kinds of bucket threads, and I'm wondering whether people want two bucket threads--one for reality television, and one for other kinds of non-fiction such as Ghost Hunters, mythbusters, documentaries, news programs, NOVA, Mr Rogers, whatever.

Good point, SA. I'd prefer to have them together, for purposes of cross-polination. But I suspect the "other non-fiction" is more of a loss for Natter, so I dunno.

I'd prefer non-fiction over reality tv as the thread topic. I think a broader topic would be worth it to see that the thread is well used.