A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
If we'd been having the conversation 4 years ago, or 1 year from now, it would not be whitefontable; and it's not whitefontable in the thread devoted to the topic; and it's not a NAFDA issue; so I'm having trouble coming up with a reason to whitefont.
Because there is a rational reason to not want to read the books and yet enjoy the movie unspoiled. The movie and book are different things; one, yes, has been out forty years but the other hasn't and has appeal beyond the book. I don't go into "Dude" because I haven't read the books (and don't plan to) but I'd rather not be spoiled in Natter.
Aimee, I take great joy in anticipating your reaction to events as they develop. Makes me want to be sitting next to you in the theatre. We ought to get all the non-readers together for the premier, then sprinkle of bunch of the readers in the audience wtih them, just so we can say, "Just wait, just wait," then we can enjoy their gasps.
Oh, topic, right. And I also think we should whitefont in Precious. Isnt' that thread primarily about the movie phenomenon? A purely book discussion might be better suited in Literary.
I thought the consensus in Precious was to whitefont what happens in the books out of courtesy--and, at least on my part, enjoying the innocence of the unspoiled.
I'm not sure what you're talking about here, because there's never been any book-related whitefonting in Precious -- the ability to talk freely about 40+ year-old books was one of the main reasons for giving them their own thread.
I thought the reason for giving them/us their own thread was because the Movies people were getting tired of slogging past posts going "Boromir! Aragorn! Hobbitses!"
Yes, I am smiling.
I thought the reason for giving them/us their own thread was because the Movies people were getting tired of slogging past posts going "Boromir! Aragorn! Hobbitses!"
LotR threads long predate Movies. And, yeah, I'm being pedantic and pointy-headed.
Although having just typed "being" as "boing" should redeem me somewhat.
Oh, that's right, the Movies people were sad about the LotR people getting a thread for their movie when they wanted a general one as well. I still think whitefonting is the kindest option, there, because the thread was created as a response to the movies, not to the books.
Well, but the fact is, we do discuss the books as often as we do the movies, and that discussion needs a space. We could move it to Literary, but inevitably book-talk will bleed over to movie-talk, and then people will have to move from one thread to another to follow a single conversation.
In sum: I think book-Tolkien talk should stay in Dude; I don't think it can bear to be whitefonted. (Unlike HP talk, it would have to be whitefonted for the next 6+
months
.) We did talk about this in Dude a long time ago; and I had thought we consensed enough about it that I put it into my Buffista Rules Precedents document.
(Hey, Jon, is that done being HTMLified yet? If not, I'll post the linky citation when I get home.)
The spoiler policy discussion for Dude started here:
Elena "Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier" Dec 21, 2002 1:19:59 am PST
Anyway, so, talking about the books is okay, comments on the film, by thems that are spoiled, not so much.
Er, yeah, what he said! That's the citation I was going to give.
(Hey, Jon, is that done being HTMLified yet? If not, I'll post the linky citation when I get home.)
Whoops! I forgot all about it. I will get something up real soon.
