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.
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!
that would make wrestling a Boxed Set topic if that's the guiding principle
Yet another strike against the practicality of having a third party make our decisions.
That's why I mentioned the one week whitefont thing
And it's something that kills a thread for me, so I won't come down in favour of it.
Too much work?
For developers and posters and readers? I think so.
Yeah. Intellectually, I love the thought of tagging. Practicality? Too damn much work. The only place I'd like to see tags would be the ability to tag marked posts as I mark them. Which, I could toddle over to BBaBB and ask?
I always try to trust the the first new post about a new ep will alert me to a new ep since I watch evrythng via Tivo. It kind of sucks when there is a HUGE spoiler (a la House this week) in the first few posts, even though it's my own fault for not being more careful.
The more I read the more I find myself coming down on ita's angle - I don't think it's a problem that it's not always obvious, and that you sometimes find parallel discussions or have to ask where to find something. Particularly not with the new Film & TV discussions link showing on the page any time you're in any TV thread.
I don't have any strong feelings, really, wrt single show v. buckets. I get more out of SPN as a separate thread because I keep unsubbing from Boxed Set all the time when I get behind, but I also like the cross-show talk both there and in Natter. For the low traffic threads, I think I actually floated closing some of them about six months or a year ago, and was convinced otherwise. I don't think I'd be on board with more new threads just to sort out some overlapping definitions.
Re tagging: if I'm trying to find discussion I think I've missed, it's usually easy enough to search either by the name of the show or sometimes major character names to find where things come up. Shrug. I don't see an issue, but obviously some people see it otherwise. But I can't remember to tag my once a month lj posts, I'm sure as hell not going to be able to do it for show talk with any reliability.
Day-of-week or by network threads would be totally unmanagable via Tivo, for me anyway, since I no longer really know when or when anything is on unless they're the few shows I race home to watch in real time.
I wonder if we could clarify what we're actually talking about? I'm having a lot of trouble figuring out what the actual proposal is here - what we're going to be voting on.
I don't feel the need for any changes.
Were changes to be made, I would find show-specific threads (such as the SPN thread) a better option than piling everything together into one thread. (The downside is the further fragmentation of the community, I guess, but it seems to me that we're already pretty damn fragmented.)
But I don't think it's broke or needs fixing right now, myself.
I think that the only change should be the addition of a drama thread :)
I wonder if we could clarify what we're actually talking about? I'm having a lot of trouble figuring out what the actual proposal is here - what we're going to be voting on.
I didn't realize until yesterday that the conversation/proposal started because of a joke:
I also joked that I wanted to rethink the bucket threads, which was seconded and thirded, and you see where that has gotten us.
If this conversation is worthwhile, then that's good, but I really dislike the idea of voting on a change to the board's structure that started as a joke.
Well, a joke in that I hadn't really intended to make a formal proposal, but I have been thinking we should have the conversation for a while, which is how I framed the initial proposal. I was planning on threadsucking today and seeing if anything concrete can be wrangled out of the discussion.