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 suspect it unlikely that a Boxed Set (ha! Originally typed Bixed Set!) thread could end up a general TV thread. That's partly why I'm all about the phrase "TV Fandom", because the set of TV Fandom people is far smaller than the set of general TV watchers. And the mood of all the existing threads is far more fannish -- fanfic, canonicity, arcane details -- than a general TV thread could stand. Imagine wading through 100 posts about how translator microbes work, to get to the latest news about Survivor 6!
Also, I think that "drift" in this case is (a) already occurred and (b) copes with the predictable drift of the likely users in other venues -- i.e. what fandoms they have or will spread out to, over time -- and (c) relatively safe. Because all but one of the shows we're talking about? Cancelled! Similar-topic drift keeps the threads alive, and talking about 2 cancelled shows isn't as intensive as talking about 2 ongoing shows.
Actually the more I think about it the more the Boxed Set thread sounds like, in about a year, it will be at least partially redundant with either Fanfic, or Bitchy Fic, or both.
If it's a concern that combining all the shows into one thread could lead to that as an unintended consequence, perhaps we should leave them in separate threads.
No, not at all. Drift has already happened, and I'm not bitching about that. I just don't see what our lack of panic has to do with the thread title.
I just don't see what our lack of panic has to do with the thread title.
I think it was the other way around. The reason some people mentioned for changing it was so as not to explicitly encourage thread drift because of the concern over the server connection problem.
I think it was the other way around. The reason some people mentioned for changing it was so as not to explicitly encourage thread drift because of the concern over the server connection problem.
I don't think it was a matter of encouraging (or not) thread drift, just not advertising what drift there already is. I can't Nilly the posts from Kristen and possibly Kat when this first started, but I know they were there, and the general (bullshit? maybe, I don't know) consensus was that the name should specify the three shows, and that's pretty much it. Why is this an issue that is causing such resistance?
I am SO confused. Are we arguing over whether or not the thread title should have "et al" in it?
Are we arguing over whether or not the thread title should have "et al" in it?
I'm not. I'm all I can speak for.
For the record, I don't care. (Though I do now have this creepy feeling that I may be quoting Spike there.)
I'm good with
Boxed Set, Vol. 1: Smallville, Due South, Farscape
I don't think that the et al is really going to make or break us, nor do I think it will foster nor infringe on the usual drift. I just think leaving it out makes it clear that the drift, while sometimes necessary, is not the intended purpose of the thread.
I like Kat's suggestion, too. Count that as a vote for the title from a Farscape poster.
