Burrell, the way I understand it, it's a place for people who are watching the syndicated shows (possibly for the first time) to talk about them without getting spoiled for the new shows. It's also a place to have an earlier show discussion without it getting lost in the discussions of new episodes or watch'n'posts which can happen during the season.

Plus it's a place that's unAmerican friendly, and while I know they have their own thread, it's a thread that allows discussion for both unAmerican and Americans without worrying about the WF or NAFDA.

This is now true for any thread dedicated to discussing Buffy. I mean, right? Hasn't everyone now seen the whole thing? (Except Nilly, of course -- sorry about that...)

This is now true for any thread dedicated to discussing Buffy.

Yep. The only reason for keeping Previously open, really, is if people (either UnAms or people on tape delay) want a separate thread for AtS syndication, which begins in September.

There seems to be a tacit resistance to closing Previously.

There seems to be a tacit resistance to closing Previously.

Because people want it for Angel reruns.

There seems to be a tacit resistance to closing Previously.

There does. I don't object. I don't usually go in there though, and wasn't here when it was created. If there's a sub-community, I don't want to uproot them. Is there?

I wonder, was it created when FX was first airing BtVS, and people were catching up? Is there the need for it for Angel, that the Angel NAFDA thread doesn't serve.

If Previously is unlike Atlantic Canadians and unlike UnAmerican, and is just a catch-all, could we, would we want to do without it?

I ask this all within the context of the community's aversion to thread proliferation. I understand and agree with the people who are anti-proliferation in theory, but I have a harder time accepting the No New Thread requests on an individual basis, when every time we move to clean up the thread list, this inertia settles over us.

I don't think we should change things for no reason, or just because we can. But, when a community that met because of a TV show, has lost that TV show, and there are folks who want to add a general TV thread, in part, to gage where our new interests will lie, but anti-proliferation is brought up as a reason against doing so, yet nobody is willing to close redundant threads, I think I need to take up drinking in a more serious way.

I wonder, was it created when FX was first airing BtVS, and people were catching up? Is there the need for it for Angel, that the Angel NAFDA thread doesn't serve.

Yup, that's exactly what it was created for, and come the fall, the exact same situation will exist for Angel.

What DX said.

So we are, in effect, getting rid of one Buffy thread and that's about it? Okay.

Well, I think what DX said earlier makes the most sense (repurpose it to an Angel thread). I do think though, that if it doesn't seem necessary after a while, we have to consider closing it. We never close anything, and then we don't want to open anything new, because we have so much.