Mal ,'Objects In Space'
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!
So no one thinks the following hypothetical exchange isn't . . . off?
To me that's not an exchange, so the offness is moot. It is merely consecutive posting. If I wanted to dominate the room with my grieving then Natter is the wrong place for me to try and do it. It is, after all, Natter. Topics cross, and I don't blame anyone for it.
However, just because I'm bitching about the shitty day I had or Vortex has nowhere to live (sorry!) would really not have any bearing on the appropriateness of the tv conversation.
That said, I do agree that it has a distraction factor that does impact the tv discussion, and that was one thing that was made pretty clear in the experimentals.
I think the question of the variety of topics in Natter is a non-issue. My issue is that I don't think there was all that much focused discussion in the experimental drama thread, where there weren't other topics coming into play.
Edit: If my math is right, the experimental drama thread averaged fewer than 18 posts a day.
What was the spoiler policy in the experimental drama thread? Perhaps a difference in whitefont rules would cause a change in the discussion?
I don't have a good sense of the number of people who would be driven away by whitefont vs the number of people driven away by lack of whitefont, but there is definitely a group of each.
What was the spoiler policy in the experimental drama thread? Perhaps a difference in whitefont rules would cause a change in the discussion?
I think that it was NAFDA
for comparison, this thread, which I consider slow moving, for this proposal discussion, has generated more than 18 posts a day.
- some will say it being a bucket kept enough people out to diminish the convo. - some will say they hate WF at all, so that kept them away.
no way to know to be quite honest. probably some of both with a little of
- just because some WANT in depth discussions on shows doesn't meant that enough people here will participate to sustain it.
When do I need to have a final proposal put together?
I need final wording by tomorrow morning.
I also need a volunteer vote counter.
I would strongly recommend including "no preference" as an option, especially on the spoiler policy pieces of the ballot. Otherwise, we risk having enough votes to set up a thread, but not enough to determine the spoiler policy.
I'd also recommend having whether or not we have a spoiler policy be one item, and giving the possible spoiler policy choices in a separate item.