It happened with Firefly, and again (to a lesser extent) with Wonderfalls/Minearverse.

My impression is that a fair number of people popped up in the general conversation threads. But I didn't/don't participate in either thread, so I don't know how many new posters expanded their horizons and how many stuck to their original thread.

I think in the past, spoiler policies have sometimes been hashed out at the start of a thread, no?

That's what I thought, too, but what the hell you know?

That's what I thought, too, but what the hell you know?

Oh, for sure -- especially if it doesn't need to be super-intricate like the Movies thread one.

I suppose it doesn't hurt to have it out there right from go, though.

I think in the past, spoiler policies have sometimes been hashed out at the start of a thread, no?

oops, sorry (backs away from can of worms, hiding opener behind my back)

DAMN YOU, VORTEX!

Nah, no harm, no foul. I don't think anyone who is waiting to vote just went "Wait, no spoilers? Well FUCK THAT!"

And seriously, if the policy is "white font them," I support heading off potential discussion!

I can't subscribe to everything I might want to, and the narrow-topic low-volume threads are the easiest to let go of first.

Time constraints cause me to fall hopelessly behind in Bitches & Natter while I have some hope of keeping up in the low volume threads.

I skipped all but the first and last page here.

But this is a case where we do have a group of people who are already part of the community who want to have the discussion.

This means a lot to me. There are a significant number of my fellow Buffistas that would enjoy the thread very much. That gets my vote. I will pop in on occasion as I do in other narrow threads just to see what is happening. Not a gamer so it won't be my home thread.

Games have spoilers? Who knew? (so without knowledge of this world)

And I often feel left out because so many people know each other in real life, so I feel a little bit (I doubt this is true) that bitches is one group of friends that know each other, and natter is another, and I am just an interloper.

I often feel this way too, Sophia. For me, I think that's partly a function of not living in a place where there are few or no other Buffistas, and of my general feeling of outside looking in.

(backs away from can of worms, hiding opener behind my back)

I kind of love this.

I am part of the Great Firefly Explosion, but I never stayed exclusively in Firefly.

The willy-nilly approach is the main thing that kept me from participating in boards before I stumbled into this gin joint. On the boards in which anyone can start a thread, I felt like there were a million doors to open, and I never was sure what was behind him. It was like being in a Monty Python skit. (I didn't come here for an argument...)

Some of the changes in Boxed Set have come about because of the sudden proliferation of sf-ish television shows. We want to talk about them somewhere, but the only options I see for the spoiler-phobes is to open a new thread for every new genre show or have a sea of white font somewhere. A new thread for each show strikes me as unworkable, particularly considering that the discussion of some of these shows has only been the occasional "Does New Amsterdam still suck?" "Yes." I really would like to understand what the people who don't like Boxed Set in its current evolution think would be the ideal.

All of this has nothing to do with a gaming thread, however. I certainly understand the urge to be able to talk about something you love with other Buffistas, and I see your argument that it doesn't fit in well with other discussions. I am unlikely to ever enter such a thread, though, and I'd hate to think it meant I'd see less of people like Sean.