Ah. Oh well.

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!"

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.)

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.

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.

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.

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.

I would selfishly like the Firefly thread to stay open so I don't have to read about it in Boxed Set or Minearverse.

Hee. We have to keep the terrorists browncoats over there, or they'll follow us home! /bushism

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.

Obviously, the distinction is that it was a Joss Whedon show, while the others aren't. That is why it's in the header. I have no idea what cultural entitlement entails, but what is better about the Firefly thread than, say, threads that were created at TT? Threads dating from WX? Threads that garner a lot of posts? Just because a show was created by Joss, we have to keep a tombstone? In sum, I don't buy sentimentality as a reason for keeping something useless around.

Firefly's inclusion just seemed, well, right.

Perhaps right because it was there when you joined. Timing matters.

But, blissfully, I don't care one way or another. But, and I'd like to point this out very very strongly. THIS level of angst and navelgazing and agitation for keeping a thread is why I personally hate opening new threads. Because they are nigh impossible to close because everyone wants their personal sandbox to be sacrosanct.