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.

I'm saying that the ballot was decided and therefore the discussion was moot. Not the vote.

Didn't someone suggest a month of seeing how the threads worked together and then discussion a change?

Beverly, a general TV thread was proposed and discussed in Lightbulbs. I'm Nilly-impaired, but there ought to be a link in press for it.

As for non-slashiness of the FS thread -- well, there *has* been slash talk there. It's not a m/m free zone or anything. It may just have been easier for those that don't care about slash to skip over it, is all.

I have to admit I'm a little mystified by the "but I don't like that! I don't want it posted about in here!" (and I'm not referring specifically to the consolidation opposers -- it pops up every now and again around the board). It could be that I read too many threads to start off with, but just about every one discusses stuff I have no interest in. Which is when I skim. Sometimes it dominates, and I'd rather it'd stop, but it always has. I don't think it's happened to a degree where I felt that other topics had become verboten, and I sincerely hope that it won't happen with this particular consolidation.

It's pretty obvious that the tenor of the consolidated thread will be different (inasmuch as that can be separated from the topic), and I am sad that this will bother people.

But I voted yes, anyway.

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.

I think in part that's a function of having the proposer have ultimate authority over the questions, fwiw. There seemed (to me) to be a fair amount of consensus over the fact that Farscape was at best an awkward fit with the other two. But that's not what the proposer chose to propose. My feeling is that for people who aren't in any of those threads, it didn't seem like a big deal, so they chose consolidation over leaving things the same. People who actively participate in those threads seem to feel differently - but as small threads, it didn't have a lot of impact.

Can we let the people who use the threads decide on the title?

I think having a thread name that is indiscipherable affects the board in a larger sense.

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People who actively participate in those threads seem to feel differently

Not all of them, for the record.

I have to admit I'm a little mystified by the "but I don't like that! I don't want it posted about in here!"

I get that feeling too. Skip, skim, cope... you know?