Just because a show was created by Joss, we have to keep a tombstone?
bon, you say exactly what I'm thinking, but so much more articulately.
Congratulations to the class of 1999. You all proved more or less adequate.
Snyder ,'Chosen'
Voting Discussion: We're Screwing In Light Bulbs AIFG!
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!
Steph L. - Oct 26, 2007 8:52:00 am PDT #7900 of 10289
I look more rad than Lutheranism
amych - Oct 26, 2007 9:12:26 am PDT #7901 of 10289
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I'm in the Jesse corner -- I've been having a little trouble articulating why, but it makes a huge difference to me that we're talking about not opening a new thread, and not about taking some affirmative action to close one. I'd be very much against closing down the thread if it weren't coming to its time, but it seems like the right moment to let it go its way.
I loved Firefly like I've loved few other shows. I never once felt like having a thread here was a bad fit. But opening a new thread just in case something happens... maybe someday? That's, like, Miss Havisham levels of creepy and morbid and wrong.
Let the thread die a natural and dignified death. The subject is still welcome, but the end of the thread seems not just like board housekeeping, but like a fitting way for it to go out.
§ ita § - Oct 26, 2007 9:17:08 am PDT #7902 of 10289
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thank you, amych. Those were the words I couldn't find.
Pix - Oct 26, 2007 9:34:11 am PDT #7903 of 10289
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I really don't have a horse in this race, but when I said "let it die," I didn't realize that a handful of people are still actively posting, slowly or not. I imagine that it must feel very unfair to those who are still posting in thread to hear it called dead or useless. I don't see why it hurts to leave it open. I certainly sympathize with their desire to not get lost in the shuffle.
Pix - Oct 26, 2007 9:38:18 am PDT #7904 of 10289
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Coffee: if we do decide to open the next thread, it might be fun to start with a group rewatch of the show or movie. That would give the thread a nice jump start and get it past the initial low numbers so it doesn't feel so sad to others.
BigDuluth - Oct 26, 2007 9:51:20 am PDT #7905 of 10289
"I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world"
That would give the thread a nice jump start and get it past the initial low numbers so it doesn't feel so sad to others.
I like this idea.
lisah - Oct 26, 2007 9:54:06 am PDT #7906 of 10289
Punishingly Intricate
Let the thread die a natural and dignified death. The subject is still welcome, but the end of the thread seems not just like board housekeeping, but like a fitting way for it to go out.
This is exactly what I feel as well. thanks, amych
Allyson - Oct 26, 2007 9:57:27 am PDT #7907 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
Or, we could bury it in the backyard next to Lovesick Ass, Atlantic Canadians, and Book Club.
It's just a thread. A dead thread. We could propose that if it doesn't reach 500 posts in six months, we take it off the feeding tube, as well.
megan walker - Oct 26, 2007 10:01:17 am PDT #7908 of 10289
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
We could propose that if it doesn't reach 500 posts in six months, we take it off the feeding tube, as well.
In the last year, it's only had about 1000 posts.
§ ita § - Oct 26, 2007 10:03:18 am PDT #7909 of 10289
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You know, the elves went into the West and left Middle Earth for Man. It was as sad as the end of any era, but it was time.
Uh, sorry Allyson.