'The Girl in Question'
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!
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.
I like the idea of both a Supernatural thread and of cutting down on the number of shows in Boxed Set. I know there is a sentiment that if you aren't in these theads then this isn't your issue but I have started watching Supernatural and would like to discuss it and at one time I did post in BS and would like to again. As a result I feel that these issues do very much pertain to me. So I will be happily voting in favor of a Supernatural thread.
It could be a deathmatch! No scheduling! Just both camps trying to W&P harder and faster than the other!!
Well, that's already happened in Boxed Set, and the SPN DVD W&Ps clobbered all competition. Don't want no rematch.
I am having a problem with the supposed victimization of SPN folk, since it seems like the rest of us are being told, "We talk a lot. Get over it." We're the ones who are having DVD W&Ps scheduled at the same time as the new episodes of the shows we watch. That's pretty impolite. That doesn't seem like it would change with a watch and post thread, either, because there will still be conflicts once the thread nannies start insisting that all watch and posts be held there.
I don't think they're saying get over it. I saw a few say they try to hold it down or take it to LJ- which actually makes me a little sad.
I'm sure it does feel a bit like being steamrolled though when posts about shows you want to have a discussion about are separated by a sea of SPN.
As for the scheduling of W&Ps, I'm sure they're not doing it on purpose, but between scheduling when people are around and the number of other shows that are in there, there's going to be conflict.
I'm not saying there's not a need for another thread. I just don't think the SPNers are thoughtless. I don't think the majority of 'fistas are.
Although it might make it easier to have conversations about other shows in Boxed Set, I think a Watch & Post thread would hurt SPN conversation more than an SPN thread would. Show talk frequently blooms from the seeds planted in watch and post. I've never been a watch and poster, but one of my fondest BtVS memories here is coming to the board on a Wednesday morning, meara-ing the W&P as a jumping off point for my own post. I think it would be awfully disruptive to go to one thread to W&P a show, and then have to take the conversation back to a different thread after 45 minutes. In fact, I think it might kill the conversation.
And I know we're laughing now, but I do think there would be kerfuffles about scheduling. And then some group of us would be hurt because they've always posted about show X on Sunday night at 8, and some other group of us would feel disenfranchised because their also completely nifty show also airs Sunday at 8, but they never get to talk about it.
I think a W&P thread has more potential to change board culture than any single show thread. The thought is making me shudder.
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Nutty, thank you for that great explanation. I actually think I am media fannish, I just only ever thought of it as fannish. We (the Buffistas, not just the Boxed Setters) do feel like a particularly (media) fannish bunch.
I think I'm mostly with Dana. I just want people to be happy.