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.
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.
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.
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"?
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.
I'd be in favor of closing Buffy 4: Grr Argh and starting a new Buffy 5 to begin it anew once Buffy reruns finish on UPN.
Perhaps naming it something forward looking...
Buffy 5: Post Apocolypti
Buffy 5: Is that it? That can't be it!
Buffy 5: Next stop? Cleveland.
Buffy 5: Blackout? Hellmouth. IJS.
I'm sure we could come up with more....
