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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!


Nutty - Jul 16, 2007 11:22:48 am PDT #7117 of 10289
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

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?


Lee - Jul 16, 2007 11:24:33 am PDT #7118 of 10289
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

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.


Jessica - Jul 16, 2007 11:28:58 am PDT #7119 of 10289
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

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.


Zenkitty - Jul 16, 2007 11:29:21 am PDT #7120 of 10289
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

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.


DXMachina - Jul 16, 2007 11:35:56 am PDT #7121 of 10289
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Or Parsippany, as my fingers would really prefer to type?

Which is just a hop, skip, and a jump from Whippany.


Aims - Jul 16, 2007 11:37:14 am PDT #7122 of 10289
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Whippany. Whippany good.


juliana - Jul 16, 2007 11:40:55 am PDT #7123 of 10289
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

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.


Connie Neil - Jul 16, 2007 11:41:12 am PDT #7124 of 10289
brillig

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


Jon B. - Jul 16, 2007 11:46:43 am PDT #7125 of 10289
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

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.

Can you understand that some of the non-SPN fans feel like the rest of the puppies in that now-crowded old crate?


juliana - Jul 16, 2007 11:51:11 am PDT #7126 of 10289
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

Can you understand that some of the non-SPN fans feel like the rest of the puppies in that now-crowded old crate?

Um, that's why I apologized. I feel bad that we made people feel squeezed.