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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!


Java cat - Apr 09, 2009 4:22:04 pm PDT #9141 of 10289
Not javachik

Medium and House are procedurals to my way of thinking - a mystery each episode.

I'd love to know where to go to find TAR talk! Survivor, too, for that matter. I thought the non-fic thread was all about the various modeling shows; guess I'll have to take a closer look at it.

I'm in the camp of people who actually reads Natter 1 or 2 days every 1 to 5 months, and I really appreciate having a tv thread to read. It's doable. And I'd never have heard about Leverage if not for discussions in one of the threads, so I'm glad about that.


Scrappy - Apr 09, 2009 4:42:40 pm PDT #9142 of 10289
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Java, do come into Non-Fic and talk about Survivor and TAR! That's where the Burnett-loving folks hang.


JenP - Apr 09, 2009 4:59:37 pm PDT #9143 of 10289

To Kristin's point upthread, we used to whitefont currently airing show in BS, didn't we? I don't remember for how long we white-fonted after airing, though.

Is that a compromise that could work for more than just Kristin (not that you're not whitefont-worthy all by yourself!)? Just throwing it out there.

I realize this is separate from the which shows go where discussion; it just caught my attention.


Kat - Apr 09, 2009 5:36:33 pm PDT #9144 of 10289
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I'm not megan, I think discussing how we structure what goes where so that it is more intuitive is a worthy discussion.

I totally agree with this, and without the but.

In fact, I distinctly remember being told that revisiting the utility of threads was part of voting them in (but memory is faulty AND I went to ikea tonight so I may have lost even more cognitive ability, so take that with a grain of salt).

I find that I talk TV here much less than I used to. If I want to talk FNL and I usually do, there's no one to talk about it with. And other shows I watch, Greys and House.... well, ditto. But I also find that I don't care that I don't talk about TV anymore, so your interest in TV threads may vary.

I do think we might be better served with a different system. I don't know what that system might be. Day of the week it airs?


§ ita § - Apr 09, 2009 6:00:17 pm PDT #9145 of 10289
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Kings is airing on the Sci Fi channel tonight.

Day of the week it airs?

Kills thematic cross-pollination and doesn't cure spoiler ills for TiVoers.


Dana - Apr 09, 2009 6:07:21 pm PDT #9146 of 10289
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I swear last time this conversation happened, we had the whole "how else can we organize TV discussion" brainstorming. And ended up with nothing. In that there is nothing that works for everyone, and no one found the brilliant idea that would solve everything.


Kat - Apr 09, 2009 6:15:41 pm PDT #9147 of 10289
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Honestly, I think the most successful threads are the single shows per thread. Hugely unpopular, but the thing that works the best for the many. Except resource-wise.


§ ita § - Apr 09, 2009 6:18:28 pm PDT #9148 of 10289
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

the thing that works the best for the many

I'm not in that many. I still resent the loss of brainshare with the Supernatural split, for instance. I like cross-pollination. I'd guess so do the people, for instance, who were enticed into Leverage by that very thing.


JenP - Apr 09, 2009 6:20:23 pm PDT #9149 of 10289

I think Boxed Set is successful. I mean, gets traffic and has a lot of participants - that's how I'm defining successful. When we did that usage survey a while back, I think it scored as one of the top couple of threads, yes?

I do have a bias in that it is one of my favorite threads.

Huh. And Supernatural is the only single show thread I subscribe to, and that's because it split from BS. I guess I'm a bucket girl. (Can't believe I just typed that sentence.)


Kat - Apr 09, 2009 6:22:40 pm PDT #9150 of 10289
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

You are right. The most successful for me. Don't care so much about cross pollination, I guess.

And I've basically given up on talking TV here. So I guess it fundamentally just doesn't matter that much to me.