Except - UnAmeiricans had to put with this for years in avoiding the Buffy and Angel main threads if they wanted to be unspoiled. Turn about does not seem to me to be wrong in this instance
I do see where you're coming from, but whilst this might be fair, in a turn and turn about sense, it isn't kind.
There are only a handful of UK-based Buffistas. I mean, yes, I'd like to continue to discuss the shows as they air somewhere in the manner that we've been doing. But I would rather not discuss them than prevent people from being able to frequent the main thread for fear of me spoiling them and reducing their pleasure in the DVDs.I would gain no satisfaction from a discussion of the shows which I knew was inconveniencing a bunch of other people.
Whitefont is going to irritate some people, and clearly Le Nubian (& perhaps some others) is annoyed at (but prepared to go along with) the request that references to The Message, Heart of Gold and Objects in Space be avoided until we've had them aired over here. Setting up a thread for a handful of people for the sake of the 3 weeks seems daft to me. We're going to inconvenience some people regardless.
Having the discussion in the Spoiler thread seems like the most sensible option to me. I'd be most grateful if people could refrain from spoiling me for the remaining 3 eps, but if not then I'll suck it up.
(Hell, it's not like I wasn't spoiled for most of the season, after all.)