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!
A lot of us do like to talk about tv, for sure. I mean, that's kind of how we got here. But it's far from a dominant discussion in Natter or Bitches, and hasn't been for years. And if there were no tv discussion even allowed, I'd still be here every day.
But I like talking about tv, and I like talking about it with the people here. Outside of the everything goes of Natter and Bitches, we also talk about movies. Comics. Music. Computers. Books. TV is harder to grapple with because it does create problems of volume and breadth - so many shows, so many different viewing patterns. So it's no surprise to me that it takes up more room and causes more angst. But to say we are (or are becoming) all about tv is way off, to my eyes.
I'm here for Bitches, Natter, and Minearverse primarily. I wish I could talk about the Boxed Set shows with my friends here, but since I'm one of the ones who can't keep up, that is what it is. But I'm here for the people, mainly.
I agree with Kat that there seems to be pressure to make this site a TV site. I neither like nor get it, myself.
Honestly, I don't think that most people who are advocating for TV threads are doing so because they want to make it more of a TV board. I think that we come here because we care about each other. We already value the people here and have been talking about TV with each other for a long time, after all. IMO, the debate isn't really whether or not we should talk TV (because hello, Buffistas), but how that discussion should happen.
As for me, I'll keep on posting in the non-TV threads and loving this community regardless of the outcome of the bucket/no bucket debate.
I think brenda says is pretty much how I feel about things. I think the current shaking out of TV threads is a part of the continuing "where do we go from here?" process post-Buffyverse. It took longer to build steam than I had expected (I thought this might have gotten hashed out a year or two ago, but it never really did), but I think that's what's happening.
I'm here because of natter and to me it seems like a critical mass of tv threads directly bleeds natter. I don't expect this board to be all things to me that I like discussing. Even if I could identify three or four people who were into the exact same thing as me, I wouldn't want that thread.
This may not be helpful at all, but would it help people to have a better search function for threads? If possible?
would it help people to have a better search function for threads?
It's not so much finding the references to Bones, but if that reference to Bones is 200 posts back and the conversation has since moved on to what an asshole someone's ex is being and how someone is legitimately in fear for life and/or limb, it feels pretty gauche to suddenly say, "Oh, by the way, wasn't that neat how Angela and Hodgins ran out of their wedding?"
Honestly, I don't think that most people who are advocating for TV threads are doing so because they want to make it more of a TV board.
But isn't that the likely outcome of creating lots of tv threads?
And for completely me-centric neurotic reasons, this is rubbing the wrong way coming off that highly contentious SPN thread discussion. I just wish things could have been left alone for a while.
I formally propose a Broadcast Drama bucket thread, to include shows like House and Bones and CSI and Greys Anatomy etc.
Yes, please.
The Network Drama experimental thread did not work for me. I pretty much only watch drama and I'd love to discuss several shows, but I'm never caught up on all of my shows at the same time.
I still like the idea of smaller, topical bucket threads for the types of shows most popular around here (I thought the experimentals were for figuring out what those shows are) but I'm against recreating the experimental thread.
Do we have enough users to sustain this many threads?
How does all the thread creation effect the maintenance of the board? I mean, is it more of a pain in the ass for stompies?
Is there any sort of breaking point where there are Too Many Threads?
If so, what is it?
And if there is a breaking point, what is it technically? And what is it socially?
I clearly feel like this is a totally moot point and we'll end up with new threads galore because it's extremely easy to get things approved. So I am sure that in a week or two we'll have a proposal for a comedy thread and so on and so on and so on.
It makes me sad because I've reached the point where it's clear that those of us who are against rampant thread creation and proliferation are just drowned out on a consistent basis and we may as well just shut the fuck up, because what's the point?
Which is the place, for me, where we've already begun to break socially.
