Xander ,'The Killer In Me'
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!
No time to chime in on the main issue, but I really this and want to tag it. May I?
Sure, although they are Plei's recesses.
Would this become a problem in a general games thread?
It may. It also may be easier on all the thread readership to have whitefonted or otherwise called-out posts off in a thread by themselves, so people don't have to work to determine if the spoiler is about Bruce Wayne's fate or about Burger Shot's special offer.
Would Sang Sacre stop being what it's been or would the two purposes continue side by side?
OK, I think there's an interesting thing going on in the Music thread, with the current bandom talk. I don't know if the people posting are the "usual" posters in there, but it's definitely not the usual kind of conversation, and I'm sure it won't last forever, but is hot-n-heavy right now. Isn't this basically what people are suggesting around games talk in the Other Media thread? How do people feel about that?
I think trying to figure out where to have a 30 day trial run is a great attempt at compromise, but MM has made it clear that he justifiably wants his proposal to go to a vote. So is it worth continuing to try to has that out?
So is it worth continuing to try to has that out?
No, it's not, you're right. I just thought it was interesting, since the scenarios seemed so similar, to someone outside all of the relevant groups.
I have a minute now. I don't have a horse in this race, really. I game from time to time but am not an avid gamer. Since the conversation isn't happening in threads anyway, I don't see that having a dedicated thread that would draw the Buffista gamers into conversation would hurt anything. I do think it's different than something like a cooking thread, which I would oppose. Regardless, I am sorry to see things get so heated in here about this. I do understand that people feel strongly about thread proliferation, but I hope we can keep things civil on both sides. I think we mostly have.
So is it worth continuing to try to has that out?
As the one that originally tossed out the idea, I've dropped it. I certainly didn't want to force people into it.
Would this become a problem in a general games thread?
It's possible, as Raq said, some video games have story lines that can be spoiled. But board games and RPGs generally do not. The risk of spoilage on video game story lines can be mitigated by whatever whitefont policy we decide to come up with.
I think there's greater danger of cross-media spoilage by throwing gaming discussion into Other Media. A level that's unacceptable to some of the people who want a gaming thread.
However, Sang Sacre, or the Book Club thread (was that the other suggestion?) do not have that problem.
For myself, I would be okay with a withdrawn proposal and a testing of the waters in either of those threads. I would also be okay with the proposal of making the gaming thread a temporary test thread.
But ultimately, either of those things happening are up to MM, as he was the original proposer.
It really doesn't have to be either/or, people can head over to any thread and start talking games right now and not pull the proposal into it at all.
Let the proposal run and we can all accept the results. If the thread fails, we could then look at taking over another thread.