As one of the remaining occasional Farscape posters, I wholly agree that the thread can be rolled in with other Fantasy/Sci-Fi shows that are also getting lower volume posting (or lower volume posting for the show they are ostensibly for).

I do think it would be feasible to consolidate the Smallville thread, Farscape, and Due South without much trauma.

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I mean, ok, yes, that makes sense. Even though I don't watch Smallville or Due South. What do you mean this isn't all about me?

OTOH, I wonder if combining those three subcommunities wouldn't generate more posts overall, since such a combined thread looks, to me, an awful lot like a General TV thread.

OTOH, I wonder if combining those three subcommunities wouldn't generate more posts overall, since such a combined thread looks, to me, an awful lot like a General TV thread.

What if we did it and just didn't tell anyone other than the people who actually post there? That could totally work. Thread management through secrecy!

Er, yeah, being serious now, that's a good point. Once you turn it into "Fannish TV" or whatever it might well attract posters and posts that the individual topics don't attract now. Um. Backing off to the Buffy end of things:

Buffy Spoilers Lite can go. That should clearly show up in any consolidation proposal.

I haven't heard any objections to the idea of closing Buffy Quotables once the deathmatches are over.

We need Previously to discuss the Angel reruns. There's no logical reason that we can't just close the active Buffy topic and have all future Buffy conversation in Previously, but the idea makes me a little sad.

Spoilers is Buffy-and-Angel both, right? So that would just go on the way it is.

If Sang Sacre isn't generating any posts, then it's not a drain on the system right now. It kind of comes and goes. I'd rather it stayed, but it seems like it's run down now.

Katie - if we're having 3 threads for 13-16 episodes of Firefly, I'd be really unhappy if all discussion of Buffy got relegated to a previously thread at the Buffistas board. I think Buffy, all 144 episodes still ought to get its own thread.

Right now, Buffy 4 is at 4,902 messages. I think we should let it play out, and decide after it gets to 10,000 whether we want an independent Buffy 5, or if Buffy discussion can go into Previously.

Putting the Angel Quotables in a general ME Quotables thread will make that thread spoilery, which will make it pretty much a de facto Angel Quotables thread. I don't have a problem with that, but UnAmericans might. I dunno, are a lot of quotes added long after the show's original airing?

I don't see the problem, as, well, quotables has ALWAYS been NAFDA.

Or, at least, we could possibly host Sang Sacre somewhere else.

If Sang Sacre isn't generating any posts, then it's not a drain on the system right now. It kind of comes and goes. I'd rather it stayed, but it seems like it's run down now.

As David says, if it's not generating many posts, it's not a drain. And it does run in cycles.

Right now, Buffy 4 is at 4,902 messages. I think we should let it play out, and decide after it gets to 10,000 whether we want an independent Buffy 5, or if Buffy discussion can go into Previously.

IMO - not if we're going to assign Angel re-run discussion to Previously. If Farscape, Due South, and Firefly have their own threads, I don't understand why we'd consider shoving Buffy discussion into the Previouslies thread at the Buffistas board.

What Cindy Said. It's a freaking Buffy board. We should have a Buffy thread.