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.

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.

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.)

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.

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.

Kat is me.

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.

I agree also. Although I think philosophically I am totally against this.

It makes us sound even more contrarian and self-destructive than normal to say something hugely unpopular also works best for the majority.

Kings is airing on the Sci Fi channel tonight.

Err, not to be glib, especially since I'm agreeing with you on this discussion (well, except I prefer to get my cross-pollination from thread hopping), but that would make wrestling a Boxed Set topic if that's the guiding principle. Which, granted, is to real fighting what House is to real medicine, so they both might qualify as fantasy.

I subbed to Procedurals recently to follow any discussion on Castle, but really have not gotten invested in the conversation there as much as I have elsewhere. I'm not saying it could sustain its own thread or am even saying it should - just that buckets don't work well for someone (ok, fine - me) who follows only one or two shows that fits that genre.

I can't explain why what goes in Boxed Set never clicked in my head. Now that I'm looking at the headers, even Cable Drama explains what Boxed Set has.

I guess I'm more drawn to the show specific threads, which really doesn't help in this discussion. I know the break off of Supernatural was drama filled, but I'm glad it is on its own.

Dang, I feel like I just talked myself into a big circle.

Okay, I had a thought. What about tagging posts within bucket threads for shows? That way there'd be a way for someone to call up the posts for a specific show and read only those. Is it possible? Too much work? Would people use it?

ETS: I'm thinking labelling more than tagging, so it would be controlled to only show titles.

ita, just to be clear, I love cross-pollination (though I found Leverage via Natter rather than a TV bucket); I just don't love the spoiler aspect. Talking about many SFF shows at once is awesome, but I can't keep up the day of airing. That's why I mentioned the one week whitefont thing. Believe me, I would love to be able to lurk/participate in BS. I have no desire to abolish it. I just am trying to find a way to participate in it.