Voting Discussion: We're Screwing In Light Bulbs AIFG!
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!
Again, an evolving board culture thing, and it appears to be a facet that's no longer valued nor wanted. Time to let it go, here, and find it or take it elsewhere.
Whoa, hang on there. One can feel that SPN is just possibly dominating a thread beyond what's comfortable for some users without it being any kind of statement at all about mediafannishness.
Media fandom, at least in its current evolution, is often about multi-fannish space.
In fact, one could suggest that the domination (by volume, not by Cabal) might actually be hampering the thread's value as a multi-fannish space, whether it's as a barrier to entry (if you don't watch the show, 75% of the thread is scroll-through) or by making other show discussion hard to find or sustain by folks who want to.
One might, or might not, be convinced by these arguments. But neither of them are necessarily in any way a statement on mediafandom and its welcome in these parts.
But the baseball stuff IS just as sustained and prolonged as show discussion.
Really? I clearly tune it right out, like the dog in the Far Side cartoon.
how is the discussion of SPN any different from the discussions about baseball that take over other threads?
We talk baseball just to annoy Ple. (And cats to annoy Hec. Really, we keep secret lists of annoying topics.)
Although I will say, we don't talk 100 posts in a row about baseball, even during that one 18-inning postseason game last year.
That was way too snippy.
Was it parsnippy? Or Parsippany, as my fingers would really prefer to type?
actually hurting cross-pollination because discussion of other shows is getting drowned out
Could be. Just for reference, what shows are new right now? Eureka and US airings of Who season 3, right? Anything else before all the fall shows start up? What's coming down the pipe where ahemming is concerned?
Happy!
Yes!
It was about changing the flavor, the tenor, the use of Boxed Set.
But still, I don't see how moving one show will do that.
My original question was based on my feeling that SPN is the biggest MF show discussed on the board these days, and wondering if moving it would result in the other MF discussion moving with it, and if so, how would that impact Boxed Set.
But the baseball stuff IS just as sustained and prolonged as show discussion.
As someone who doesn't participate in either, no, it's not. I can't remember ever scrolling past 150 baseball posts in a row. And even during the World Series, other conversations happen in and around the baseball talk in a way that doesn't happen during SPN W&P's.
From my perspective, we already HAVE a dedicated SPN thread that just happens to (virtually) geographically overlap with Boxed Set. I don't see a lot of crosstalk between SPN and other shows -- SPN takes over the thread completely during the W&Ps and ensuing analysis/squeeage and everything else sits back and waits for it to pass.
My original question was based on my feeling that SPN is the biggest MF show discussed on the board these days, and wondering if moving it would result in the other MF discussion moving with it, and if so, how would that impact Boxed Set.
Okay, I see. I just never realized that media-fannishness was a defining characteristic of Boxed Set.
Or Parsippany, as my fingers would really prefer to type?
Which is just a hop, skip, and a jump from Whippany.
I don't see a lot of crosstalk between SPN and other shows -- SPN takes over the thread completely during the W&Ps and ensuing analysis/squeeage and everything else sits back and waits for it to pass.
Ouch. Not picking on you, Jessica, it's just that... I know 200 or so posts about this is a lot to take in at once, and I know I have an emotional investment in SPN, but I still really feel like the SPN fans are regarded as an overgrown Lab puppy that needs to be whapped on the nose and sent to its new crate.
It's pretty clear that I'm overemotional and I need to step away for a bit, but I did want to state that that's how I feel about the discussion and I want to apologize to those who felt squeezed out by the flailing.
That is all.
Whippany
Though they did have to rename that popular teen magazine "Whippany Boy". Seems somebody got confused about what was supposed to be inside.
/ natter
