We'd probably argue about what constitutes "cancelled"....
And what counted as "aired."
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Dana - Oct 26, 2007 7:02:30 am PDT #7882 of 10289
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Vortex - Oct 26, 2007 7:17:36 am PDT #7883 of 10289
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Well, as someone who liked, but did not love, Firefly, I have no problem getting rid of it. But, there are a lot of people who had/have great love for the show, so I would respect their love for the show.
Jesse - Oct 26, 2007 7:30:49 am PDT #7884 of 10289
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I don't know why I feel like it makes a difference, but I do, that it's not a question of closing down a thread, it's a question of not making a new thread when the current one hits 10,000. I know it's the same result, but somehow it feels different in my head. I think because a thread with 50 posts sitting in it feels sadder than one with 8000, even if there aren't a lot of new ones.
§ ita § - Oct 26, 2007 7:34:26 am PDT #7885 of 10289
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think that's part of it for me, Jesse. The poor little thread with barely any traffic doesn't feel right to me--it's sadder than no thread at all, since it's highlighting how done Firefly is.
Jesse - Oct 26, 2007 7:41:05 am PDT #7886 of 10289
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OK, here's a question: can we take away the post limit on that thread?
megan walker - Oct 26, 2007 7:42:22 am PDT #7887 of 10289
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
The poor little thread with barely any traffic doesn't feel right to me--it's sadder than no thread at all, since it's highlighting how done Firefly is.
This is how I feel about it.
§ ita § - Oct 26, 2007 7:43:55 am PDT #7888 of 10289
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
can we take away the post limit on that thread?
Not without cheating in the code. I guess I could put something in so that not every thread caps at 10K, but at that point I'd rather just start another thread because it's disproportionate bother.
Jesse - Oct 26, 2007 7:56:35 am PDT #7889 of 10289
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ah. Oh well.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 26, 2007 8:05:24 am PDT #7890 of 10289
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
While my feelings about not starting a new thread that will have a handful of occasional but impassioned users are pretty ambivalent, my feelings about asking ita and other B.org programmers to modify the way board architecture works (and possibly risk operational hiccups) to stretch the current thread for those same users amounts to a big "Oh HELL NO!"
Una - Oct 26, 2007 8:07:09 am PDT #7891 of 10289
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
I'm behind, but:
I guess I see the Firefly thread as a place that for a few posts a week I get to hear a little bit about something that was so short lived, but deserved better.
Having people pop in with the latest links, stories and conversions can make my day.
The show may have stopped, but it gives me comfort to hear little bits of info here and there. Most of us do not have the time nor the inclination to spend hours in the remaining full fledged Firefly bastions.
Is *exactly* how I feel. (The Buffista HiveMind, she is strong.)