OK, here's a question: can we take away the post limit on that thread?
We gotta go to the crappy town where I'm the hero!
Wash ,'Jaynestown'
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Jesse - Oct 26, 2007 7:41:05 am PDT #7886 of 10289
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.)
Jessica - Oct 26, 2007 8:09:52 am PDT #7892 of 10289
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Plate of shrimp! I was just singing the sweater song the other day for some reason. And DH had never heard it, what with living most of his childhood overseas, the poor Amreican-pop-culture deprived man.
I would selfishly like the Firefly thread to stay open so I don't have to read about it in Boxed Set or Minearverse.
Allyson - Oct 26, 2007 8:11:18 am PDT #7893 of 10289
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I don't see Firefly as important in our history the way Buffy/Angel is. We didn't bring it over from TT, and its existence in the header seems awkward now. I don't see a reason to create a new thread aside from the emotional attachment some have to it.
I mean, the thread is dead. It's a ghost ship.
bon bon - Oct 26, 2007 8:19:44 am PDT #7894 of 10289
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
What Allyson said-- also the header isn't particularly accurate anyway, let's face it, so arguing for the retention of a thread based on it seems inapposite.
Wolfram - Oct 26, 2007 8:27:54 am PDT #7895 of 10289
Visilurking
Actually, the header is very relevant. I suspect any attempt to include VM, BSG, SV or any other show in the header would have met with strong opposition. Firefly's inclusion just seemed, well, right. Which supports the notion that the Firefly thread has, to some limited extent, a cultural entitlement that almost every other thread lacks.