And, all that handy info. could very well be posted somewhere -- I just didn't see it, though I'm pretty sure I read the whole FAQ.

It's here.

Jess -- thanks, yeah, I did actually read that. For whatever reason, I didn't glom onto what subscribing to the threads would mean (I think I had visions of e-mail updates or something) and that the message center appears only once you subscribe, etc., and I never went back and played around with it until this latest discussion. I just figured, well, I'll look only at the threads I want to, and I'll just hit refresh every time I want to see if there are new messages ... which could sometimes mean many refreshes in a short time frame.

I definitely didn't know that setting my page to a higher number (was at 15, is now at 75) was a good thing to do. Well, and obvioulsy the auto refresh in the message center wasn't an issue for me until, uh, yesterday, when I discovered it.

Someone had written a list of suggestions several posts up, and I thought the list form and content were helpful -- might be to others who would shy away from anything with the title "Bureaucracy." Or, dare I say, might only skim the FAQ. As for me, I'm content in my new found knowledge of the world of the board. Aaaand ... off to hit "read new" in the message center now. Because I can.

A total of 123 ballots were cast. Question number 7 may be the first time in recorded history that all Buffistas have been in agreement with each other.

Great job all. I think we are also all in agreement that those of you that put this lengthy ballot together rock!

Thanks so much for counting DX!

Okay, I have carried out the will of the collective for questions 1, 3, 7, 10, and 11, i.e., I have closed Buffista Corp, The Quotable Firefly, Spoilage Lite: Buffy, F2F Planning, and Spoilage Lite: Angel.

Question 2 isn't to be implemented until after the death matches are done.

Questions 5 and 8 are the repurposing of Previously and Spoilers as Angel threads. Do we want to close the old thread, and start a new thread for each to reflect this?

Questions 6 and 9 involve the consolidation of multiple threads, and threads titles and such still have to be worked out.

A total of 123 ballots were cast. Question number 7 may be the first time in recorded history that all Buffistas have been in agreement with each other.

Heh - that was my thought verbatim, as I read the total. I'm tempted to COMM that item.

(and damn that "read new" I posted that in Press at first - yes, I know, the thread name is all over the place: above the posting box, at the top of the browswer window - I need to pay attention)

Questions 5 and 8 are the repurposing of Previously and Spoilers as Angel threads. Do we want to close the old thread, and start a new thread for each to reflect this?

My opinion:

• No need to close and reopen a new Spoilers, since it's always been Angel inclusive and I assume that there are already lots of discussions about Angel going on there already.

• we should probably close Previously and open a new "Previously on Angel" since that's more of a shift in purpose, but I could go either way.

A slug change for the Previously seems enough in my opinion. Same with Spoilers.

I think you only change the slug in Spoilers and start a whole nother thread for Previously. Mostly because of archiving. Otherwise it would look like there was never a Previously Buffy thread.

I think slug changes on both would be sufficient.