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.
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.
I think that there were Angel threads in TT. . . also the SB thread started there and so did Natter. And Other Media.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Voting "No Preference" isn't exactly indifference, it's a vote in favor of whatever the majority chooses. Not voting at all is indifference. I don't know if people are thinking that way when they vote, but that's the effect.
