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Should we have topics for shows or episodes?

Posted by moocow1452
Tags: ask.survey, discussion

So I've been putting in topics for each episode of The Good Place for a couple weeks, and it's been a little slow but reasonable amounts of activity. But for week to week shows in the future, would it be more appropriate to have one big thread made for the season premiere and bump that on a weekly basis and enforce marking posts when a particular episode happened, so we can better track discussion and continue threads of discussion across weeks, or would that just kinda be a mess?

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  1. [3]
    Wes
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    Big advantage to separate topics are that spoilers are easier to handle. If I come in late, I can still view the thread for my current episode without risk of later spoilers.

    Big advantage to separate topics are that spoilers are easier to handle. If I come in late, I can still view the thread for my current episode without risk of later spoilers.

    12 votes
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      moocow1452
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      Yeah, that was kinda something I put together after making this topic that having each episode have their own topic would provide a better resistance to spoilers.

      Yeah, that was kinda something I put together after making this topic that having each episode have their own topic would provide a better resistance to spoilers.

      2 votes
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        1. moocow1452
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          Unless we can get Deimos to also turn off top level replies, he would have to babysit the thread to enforce that.

          Unless we can get Deimos to also turn off top level replies, he would have to babysit the thread to enforce that.

          1 vote
  2. [5]
    KapteinB
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    I'm the kind of person who prefers to wait until all episodes are out, then binge the entire season, so I don't really have a horse in this race. Still, I think I lean towards a topic for each...

    I'm the kind of person who prefers to wait until all episodes are out, then binge the entire season, so I don't really have a horse in this race. Still, I think I lean towards a topic for each episode.

    However, if we do per-episode threads, this group might very get noisy if we start doing that for dozens of different shows. How about a weekly catch-all "latest episodes discussion" topic, where we can discuss the weekly episodes of all ongoing shows in a single topic?

    2 votes
    1. moocow1452
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      Yeah, there are plans for a recurring what are you watching thread once autoposts become a thing.

      Yeah, there are plans for a recurring what are you watching thread once autoposts become a thing.

      1 vote
    2. [3]
      Wes
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      This seems like it would still have spoiler problems. I might want to discuss the latest Good Place episode, but not <other show currently running>. Maybe if we had spoiler tags, and a...

      This seems like it would still have spoiler problems. I might want to discuss the latest Good Place episode, but not <other show currently running>.

      Maybe if we had spoiler tags, and a well-trained audience...

      1 vote
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        cfabbro
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        We kinda do have spoiler tags using <details>: Click to read spoilerSpoiler! But since it was not really designed with spoilers in mind there are still some issue with using it for that purpose,...

        We kinda do have spoiler tags using <details>:

        Click to read spoilerSpoiler!

        But since it was not really designed with spoilers in mind there are still some issue with using it for that purpose, e.g. when the comment is collapsed it can reveal the "hidden" contents (click the [-] in the top-left of my comment to see that).

        2 votes
        1. Wes
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          Good point, and useful caveat. Not sure they're a good option to officially recommend for spoilers just yet.

          Good point, and useful caveat. Not sure they're a good option to officially recommend for spoilers just yet.

          1 vote