I am intrigued by the idea of a dedicated W&P thread and would like to explore that further - that might have the effect of containing the visceral flail and then when the W&P is over, we could port deeper discussion back over to Boxed Set. (And I realize that's against my anti-proliferation stance, but it would be a compromise I could live with.)
I'd agree, and you are as me on this. I think that a W&P thread would make sense, beyond even the SPN stuff.
I mean, it could be used for group movie viewings even!
I can't wait until the first scheduling kerfuffle for use of the W&P thread.
I think that a W&P thread would make sense, beyond even the SPN stuff.
Exactly. Oscars, Super Bowl, anything that doesn't have a dedicated thread, etc....
I can't wait until the first scheduling kerfuffle for use of the W&P thread.
Snerk.
I'm very, very undecided on the SPN issue, but given that we have voting it should get a vote. It can't be healthy for the board to have stuff that we don't discuss because even bringing it up would be uncomfortable -- not that I think we should lightbulb-ize every niggling detail, but once it's out there, let's finish it.
I'm much more positively intrigued by the idea of a W&P thread, which could be used for regularly scheduled things like the SPN DVD W&P's as well as live things like awards shows. W&P as we do it here is a different kind of rhythm from other discussion (and having it doesn't have to mean that squee-age doesn't happen in the usual places in addition to during W&P).
But also, yeah, this:
I can't wait until the first scheduling kerfuffle for use of the W&P thread.
It could be a deathmatch! No scheduling! Just both camps trying to W&P harder and faster than the other!!
I'm much more positively intrigued by the idea of a W&P thread
Me too. I'd vote for that over an SPN thread. Not that it would make SPN
discussion
any less prominent in Boxed Set, but it would obviously decrease the
sheer number
of SPN-related posts in a given week. There's a psychological component.
It could be a deathmatch! No scheduling! Just both camps trying to W&P harder and faster than the other!!
Definitely this.
It could be a deathmatch! No scheduling! Just both camps trying to W&P harder and faster than the other!!
Plus, seeing the cross-posts could be quite amusing:
Buffista 1: Another montage? They need to do something to spice up these awards shows.
Buffista 2: Dude. Shotguns in enclosed spaces. Never a good idea.
Love the idea of head-to-head W&Ps!
Is someone planning to propose a W&P thread, for real? At first I thought it was a bad idea, but the more people talk about it, the more I think it might work out.
I'm sorry you felt hurt, juliana. And everyone else who did. I don't think anyone intended that.
It seems like compromise has been lost as a general tool
I thought the skip-to-the-end thing was a compromise, that worked pretty well.
Here, I feel forced out and unwelcome, and that is joining with my anti-proliferationista position to overwhelm the guilt that I feel knowing that people are annoyed with the SPN fen. So, I don't want it.
I wish I didn't feel exactly like juliana right now. But I do.
I thought the skip-to-the-end thing was a compromise, that worked pretty well.
It was supposed to be a compromise, certainly. The majority of our posts are for the reW&P and there's a link edited in at the end to skip right over that hour that admittedly generates a lot of posts.
Obviously it hasn't worked well enough.
I am against the thread but if it happens, that is where I will go. Because I
I really like the idea of a W&P thread. It sounds kinda of crazy and cool.
