Angel ,'Sleeper'
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 want a dedicated place for Firefly discussion, especially since there are so many poeple here who don't like the show and don't want the discussion cropping up anywhere else. But I don't want a thread to sit there unused. I... don't know what I want.
I am Zenkitty. Torn, and thus useless. Firefly is what brought me to the Buffistas in the first place, but I've been here long enough to see the total non-use of the thread for long periods. So. Torn. And thus useless.
Well said, Omnis. It would be a shame if a passionate new fan of Firefly came in here looking to squee and left thinking we don't talk about Firefly anymore.
It would be a shame if a passionate new fan of Firefly came in here looking to squee and left thinking we don't talk about Firefly anymore.
To be fair, though, this is not the only place on the Internets to talk about Firefly.
And, it's also not like the absence of a thread means it doesn't get discussed.
I am libkitty and omnis_audis. It's a bit crowded in my brain...
To be fair, though, this is not the only place on the Internets to talk about Firefly.True, but, we aren't a bunch of fan-atics like some are, and we are the COOLEST of all the sites. Hate to shun a new cool-wanna-be just because a Firefly thread would take up one more line in the homepage.
Why not add Firefly to the Minearverse slug, to complement the mentions of Wonderfalls, the Inside, and Drive that are already there?
That makes sense to me.
Plus, I truly don't see the usefulness of continuing to have a dedicated thread for a long-cancelled show.* As someone said above (or in Bureaucracy, I dismember which), we're closing the Veronica Mars thread....at some point. As we did for Smallville when the traffic got too sparse.
*(At this point, someone will say, "But we have a thread for Buffy and Angel, and *they're* long-cancelled shows, so therefore you're not being consistent!" to which I would reply, having a Buffy/Angel thread is something that the board discussed and voted on and decided to keep because Buffy is what brought us together in the first place and made us a community.)
Honestly, I have no horse in this race, because I never use the thread. But I think what the majority of our current posters feels is right about a certain thread is should weigh more heavily than the possible influx of a few fans at some point, maybe, someday.
Hate to shun a new cool-wanna-be
Not having a dedicated Firefly thread isn't shunning a new cool-wanna-be; particuarly if Firefly were included in the header for the Minearverse thread (which only makes sense), it would still be findable.
To be fair, though, this is not the only place on the Internets to talk about Firefly.
True. However, although I may be a tad biased, I think it's probably one of the sanest places on the internet to talk about Firefly. eta: Heh, xposty goodness!
And, it's also not like the absence of a thread means it doesn't get discussed.
True. But it can make it harder to find.