And honestly, I'm rather taken aback by the hostility of the responses.

I think it's just survival instinct. Folks are passionate about certain threads, and are upset that anyone would want to discuss amputation.

Who am I to say

A Buffista. You're part of the community that houses the subcommunity. I think it's perfectly alright to question the validity of any thread, here, in the course of a spring cleaning discussion. All I had to hear was a voice saying, "Hey, I still post there, we may be small but we're still active and will continue to be active." Then I think that thread is off thetable for consolidation or closing, unless we notice that only four people are posting there for the next six months about, say, technology issues. Then I think there's a fair argument that the thread is obsolete, and keeping it is just packratting.

Who am I to say that the Due South thread, of which I never post in, nor do I understand its purpose, should exist here or not?

Also, because the Buffista admins do "The will of the people", every Buffista is an admin and can discuss things. But no one is seriously discussing closing the thread.

To move on, it seems like we should close Spoilers Lite (Buffy), and if there is any casting news about a spin-off it can go in Angel Spoilers Lite. We should merge previously and the current Buffy thread. We could close or merge the Quotables (Buffy) thread-- either with the Angel Quotes or the nely merged Buffy thread.

I only read Smallville, but some people have made the suggestion of merging Due South with Smallville and adding other "Fandom TV"-- so it would be the place to talk about Sports Night or Stargate and other shows like that.

We are not ditching Firefly-- so I think those are our only options right now.

any or all business related to tightening up or adding to the FAQ should probably be done before July.

Which reminds me, what happened with the mythology FAQ? I know Jon B. has the final version...

We are not ditching Firefly-- so I think those are our only options right now.

No, but at some point Firefly spoilers should be archived. Not necessarily now, since it's starting up overseas, but there are an awful lot of bio-engineered tumbleweeds rattling through it.

Will we wait til after the finale to close or consolidate? DO we need to vote on closing or consolidating?

Also, if we are decided to close or consolidate a thread, I think that the slug under the title should be changed, soonly, so that folks who avoid Bureaucracy like it was Bubonicracy have a big honkin' notice that some of us think the thread needs to be retired/consolidated.

But the same goes for all the threads that migrated here from anywhere. PPO, Smallville, Spoilage, etc.

But I think that the participants of the thread should have some degree of self-determination. What if a group of Buffistas started to press for no smut in the Fanfiction threads because it offends them, even though they don't read the thread? It's hardly fair. I would never presume to contribute to decisions in the Bitches thread, because I not in there and I don't know what the community is like, nor what their standards are.

It reminds me of the push by people who don't read the spoiler thread to separate the threads in to separate Buffy and Angel spoiler threads, not understanding that there is a distinct community within that thread. Consideration was given to the wishes of the already existing community as was fair and right.

Can of worms time: If we have to vote to add threads, should we vote to close/archive them?

I thought thread stuff was admin and therefore exempt from voting?

It's just thread-naming that's explicitly exempt, Deena.

okay... I still see a problem with it. We have an average of 100 posters voting (don't know if it's the same 100 every time or not). If we vote to close, say, Unamerican... what if 80 posters who don't post in there vote yes because they don't think it's important and only 40 who do post in there vote no? (Say the others are all without computer access or don't follow this thread or whatever.) That hardly seems fair. IMO, it's better to go with discussion here for that kind of thing.