It's the "Xander again"... "Still Xander"... "Doing more Xander" that I see as the concern.
Yes. "Problem" might be too strong a word, but it does make reading the Press thread a bit tedious for non-participants.
But, whatever. I can scroll.
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It's the "Xander again"... "Still Xander"... "Doing more Xander" that I see as the concern.
Yes. "Problem" might be too strong a word, but it does make reading the Press thread a bit tedious for non-participants.
But, whatever. I can scroll.
It's the "Xander again"... "Still Xander"... "Doing more Xander" that I see as the concern.
Deathmatch Xander is quite the machine.
So, and correct me if I'm wrong, the problem is that people find the announcements tedious?
No more tedious than all the "Hi, I live in a town where there are lots of Buffistas and we're getting together to do something cool that you can't get to because you live in a dull backwater" announcements.
Not that I'm bitter ;)
I haven't minded the announcements, but I'm not sure they're needed. The death matches are pretty much the only thing going on in Buffy Quotable right now. If there are new messages there, 9 times out of 10 it means that there's a match going on. I don't need to read a Press announcement to tell me that.
Maybe limit to no more than one announcement a day?
One post a day is easy to scroll by. And, in an inference from others' comments, it's unlikely that any post in Press will interest everyone.
I looked at Press back to mid-January, and there were a few days where Elena made 2 announcements.
My feeling is pretty much summed up by this:
It's the "Xander again"... "Still Xander"... "Doing more Xander" that I see as the concern.
Yes. "Problem" might be too strong a word, but it does make reading the Press thread a bit tedious for non-participants.
But, whatever. I can scroll.
...and also this:
I haven't minded the announcements, but I'm not sure they're needed. The death matches are pretty much the only thing going on in Buffy Quotable right now. If there are new messages there, 9 times out of 10 it means that there's a match going on. I don't need to read a Press announcement to tell me that.
I'm with Jon - I don't mind the announcements, I read Press before I go to the Quotable thread, but it's quite obvious when a deathmatch is going on based upon the rapid accumulation of posts in the Quotable thread.
Well, there will now be a two week break from all deathmatch announcements anyway.
Just to be clear, I'd never found the word spaz to be offensive before, and I've used it plenty. I don't think the show's use was meant offensively and I'm not adamant that it not be used if the context is verbified or whatever. Also there's a lot of (non-buffista) folks who'd find a thread named Spike's Bitches offensive. It's all about the context, baby.
I don't find the press announcements tedious or absolutely necessary. So I agree with everyone.
ION, I'd really like to see the Spoilage Lite thread recreated if there's a lot of interest. Otherwise, no biggie.