There seems to be a tacit resistance to closing Previously.
Because people want it for Angel reruns.
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Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer
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.
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Jon B. - Aug 19, 2003 1:00:32 pm PDT #4251 of 10005
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Cindy - Aug 19, 2003 1:02:57 pm PDT #4252 of 10005
Nobody
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.
DXMachina - Aug 19, 2003 1:06:04 pm PDT #4253 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
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.
Jesse - Aug 19, 2003 1:08:45 pm PDT #4254 of 10005
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
What DX said.
Burrell - Aug 19, 2003 1:13:22 pm PDT #4255 of 10005
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
So we are, in effect, getting rid of one Buffy thread and that's about it? Okay.
Cindy - Aug 19, 2003 1:14:18 pm PDT #4256 of 10005
Nobody
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.
DavidS - Aug 19, 2003 1:16:35 pm PDT #4257 of 10005
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So we are, in effect, getting rid of one Buffy thread and that's about it? Okay.
I think we're repurposing Previously for Angel rather than getting rid of it.
Cindy - Aug 19, 2003 1:18:16 pm PDT #4258 of 10005
Nobody
We're getting rid of Buffy Spoilers light, though.
Aren't we going to combine the NAFDA quotables threads? And if so, why does this have to wait 'til after the death matches? Can't we just shut Angel & Firefly NAFDA quotables and change the title of the Buffy thread to "Quotable ME"?
Sean K - Aug 19, 2003 1:20:32 pm PDT #4259 of 10005
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Can't we just shut Angel & Firefly NAFDA quotables and change the title of the Buffy thread to "Quotable ME"?
Good point.
Katie M - Aug 19, 2003 1:20:40 pm PDT #4260 of 10005
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Aren't we going to combine the NAFDA quotables threads? And if so, why does this have to wait 'til after the death matches? Can't we just shut Angel & Firefly NAFDA quotables and change the title of the Buffy thread to "Quotable ME"?
Silly, non-logical personal preference: I'm charmed by the idea of closing Buffy Quotables on the One True Quote. So I'd rather close all three and open a new one. I'm not invested, though.