I missed something I need to go look at.
Can we maybe vote on the whole murdering people issue?
Wash ,'Serenity'
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!
Lee - Jul 16, 2007 5:36:47 pm PDT #7170 of 10289
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
sumi - Jul 16, 2007 5:40:17 pm PDT #7171 of 10289
Art Crawl!!!
How did we do it when Buffy and Angel were on back to back?
I was disgruntled about the w+ps disrupting conversation about a live show but at the same time, I wouldn't want live discussion of SPN to be separate from later discussion. I agree that would stifle things.
I love SPN. I've been watching it since the first episode. I don't understand why it can't have it's own thread. We all know that the VM thread is going away, right? Not that one thing has to leave to make room for another (so far as I understand things) but I don't think that giving it it's own thread could possibly make it busier.
On the other hand, we could try to make it easier to signpost live discussion of shows in Boxed Set. That way the giant time differences between airings of shows vs. ahemming of shows would matter less to those of us who ahem.
DXMachina - Jul 16, 2007 5:41:36 pm PDT #7172 of 10289
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
How did we do it when Buffy and Angel were on back to back?
Separate threads. :)
Liese S. - Jul 16, 2007 5:42:16 pm PDT #7173 of 10289
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Plus Spike for squee.
Katie M - Jul 16, 2007 5:42:29 pm PDT #7174 of 10289
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
How did we do it when Buffy and Angel were on back to back?
Well, we had separate threads, right? Once we were here and having Serious Discussions we did, anyway; I honestly don't remember about the TT days.
sumi - Jul 16, 2007 5:45:21 pm PDT #7175 of 10289
Art Crawl!!!
I think that there were Angel threads in TT. . . also the SB thread started there and so did Natter. And Other Media.
Jon B. - Jul 16, 2007 5:48:52 pm PDT #7176 of 10289
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Particularly if this level of interest and discussion wanes in a couple of months.
In a couple of months, there will be NEW episodes airing. I can't imagine the volume of discussion waxing. If anything, it will grow.
For example, Battlestar Galactica discussion was similarly dominant in the thread at one point—though perhaps more briefly and only while new eps were airing—yet I think we were correct not to bud it off.
Exactly. It was brief, it only happened while new episodes were airing and (from my perception as someone who doesn't watch either show) it still didn't approach the volume SPN has had. This seems to me an argument for a separate SPN thread.
Laura - Jul 16, 2007 5:50:17 pm PDT #7177 of 10289
Our wings are not tired.
The points against a W&P thread are quite sound.
I've been skimming in the hopes of being clearly on one side or the other, but it hasn't happened.
It really does please me that the SPN people have such enthusiasm over their show. It is fun to watch and read. Yay for fandom! Yet I have seen at times that the show has overwhelmed discussion of my Boxed Set shows.
No, I don't want to push out the show and banish it to its own thread if the fans don't want to move. But I also think I should feel free to mention that I feel at times that my shows have been pushed out. Yes I could go in and discuss other shows more often, but it seems those posts are doomed to being smothered by the SPN.
Not wanting to rain on anyone's parade here, but not comfortable with keeping quiet either. I'll probably end up No Preference once again and just deal with whatever way it goes.
Lee - Jul 16, 2007 5:54:31 pm PDT #7178 of 10289
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
The one I most remember was the one I referenced early in this discussion. There were new eps of both Dresden and BSG, but the comments got swamped. I thought it happened to Dresden again later, but it looks like I was mistaken.
It is unfortunate that that happened. It is definitely something we strive very hard not to have happen, and I wish we had been 100% sucessful in that effort.
That being said, I have issues with this statement:
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.
It seems like mischaracterization of both what has happened and what we are saying.
Kat - Jul 16, 2007 5:54:36 pm PDT #7179 of 10289
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
No Preference
Actually, I'd love to see this option not apper on ballots anymore at all. I'm not sure which vote it had it on, but there were an equal number of NOs as there were No Preference and only 6 more YES votes.
I guess I see lots of things pass when people don't really care and indifference shouldn't mean a pass.
Which is a longer winded version of me saying pick a side.