Buffy ,'Potential'
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.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
I'm unhappy about Farscape (which I don't watch, and therefore don't care or want to read about) merging with two threads I read daily.
I'm unhappy about Farscape, a thread I read daily, merging with two threads I have no interest in whatsoever. Let us go out, and together shake our fists at the universe.
The Ikeaists will likely be the heaviest users. Who's with me? Do I get secondses?
It doesn't matter to me, because I never read any of those damn threads, but I really strongly dislike the name.
Can we let the people who use the threads decide on the title?
I really, really wish the ballot question as written had left Farscape out of the mix, as was discussed in Lightbulb. Grouping it with the DS/SV stuff isn't going to make anyone happy on either side.
There was a vote. I doubt any of us is unilaterally content with the outcome of all the questions, but this is the way we hacked out of the wildness to do things.
Also? After a certain amount of shakedown time, combined threads may settle into something we can all live with. If not? I suppose we can propose changes, after--what? six months? We can deal for six months, right?
Even though IKEA makes me laugh like a loon - and I was pro when kat first mentioned it - I now think it's a bad idea. I voted against on that question because we're trying to avoid a general TV thread, so I think we probably want to be really blunt in the title. I liked Anne W.'s suggestion:
"Due South/Smallville/Farscape--Why, yes, the slash is intentional"
Discussion of our favorite Mounties, Chicago cops, millionaires, aliens, astronauts. and the men who love them. Immortals, archaeologists, and Air Force types are also welcome.
...but it sounds like maybe some of the Farscape folks are uncomfortable with the slashiness of that? (And maybe that's why people keep saying that Farscape doesn't fit? I'm so used to slash by now that I'm practically blind to it, so that'd make sense out of my confusion.)
I would like to ask that people who actually post in at least one of the three topics get to make the call on the topic name, FWIW.
I am entirely too fond of lingonberries.
Ooh, I got addicted to lingonberry jam in college when apparently the club chef bought a whole bunch of the stuff - I have no idea why, but we were eating lingonberry jam all year. Yummy.
Beverly, I think we decided that a general TV thread was likely to actually increase posting volume, which would be Bad.
Can we let the people who use the threads decide on the title?
This seems fair to me. It's what we do in Bitches, after all. Even though I'm not crazy about the IKEA name, I'll go with it if it's what the other thread denizens would prefer.
Okay, I'm way behind on the undesirability of a "general tv thread." What's bad about that?
The worry is that a general/genre/cult TV thread would get much heavier usage than a FS/SV/DS specific thread.
Well, my feeling was that everytime I asked a question in Lightbulbs I got shut down -- that the discussion was a place to let off steam on a ballot that was already decided.
Well, my feeling was that everytime I asked a question in Lightbulbs I got shut down -- that the discussion was a place to let off steam on a ballot that was already decided.
Huh? I'm sorry you felt that way sumi, but not all the questions passed so I don't think it's fair to say that everything was already decided. I didn't vote for the Sm/DS/FS consolidation either, but that's the way it goes.