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So are issue solicitations, or talk elsewhere about provocative coming issues or series involving general industry buzz, or advance sketches of covers provided by Barry Kitson, no longer to be discussed, period?
(And should Barry and other such creators just forget about giving us any more of the advance inside scoop?)
No speculation about any forthcoming series or comics event is allowed any longer until an issue of the same is actually physically published?
And is this limited to comics?
And can you tell us why?
You can understand, I hope, that without more details, this sounds somewhat vague, inconsistent with much of the Legion and Dr. Gym'll's boards' legitimate traffic ... and, to me, more than a bit petulant.
[ June 24, 2006, 01:42 AM: Message edited by: Greybird ]
From: Starhaven Consulate, City of Angels | Registered: Jul 2003
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On www.televisionwithoutpity.com, the forums (admittedly quite a bit larger than our own) have topics for speculation, spoilers, creator interviews, creator feedback, etc... just like here, but one thing they do is the administrators actually create a thread for actual discussion of the television show in question, lock it, and then open it at 9:01 following the end of Lost or American Idol, for example. I see this as the same sort of thing. All the speculation, all the previews, all the spoiler threads you want, but the actual discussion thread about the issue should be started on the day the issue hits the stands. I think it's a fair request.
We're not limiting discussion, we're just making it so that someone can't start the primary discussion thread on an issue a month before the issue comes out (in most cases, just because he wants his name on a 100+ post thread.)
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In The Legion and Titans forums, the general pattern is that there is a particular spoiler thread started whenever a new issue comes out, in order for people who have actually read that issue to discuss/review its contents. This thread is usually highlighted in the forum until the next issue comes out, so that discussion of the issue of the sort that's informed by reading the issue can be kept in a single thread. These sorts of issue-specific threads are distinct from speculation/solicitation/news threads.
Generally, the first person to read the issue and post on LW starts a thread of this sort. However, there have been cases of people starting issue discussion threads of this sort days or even weeks before the issue actually comes out. This is what Gary wants to stop, I take it. As for why, he can probably answer the question better.
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Should we take it that Mystery Lad's "Calling the Roll" threads are a special exception to this new rule, since they seem to be permitted?
If they're considered to not be a "duplicate," due to the perspective that he uses for discussion, does finding a different initial perspective allow a second thread on any other topic? And if so, how different?
I'm trying to pin this down so that we won't find too many discussions wiped out suddenly. Sometimes a thread gets immoderate or nasty, and the only way to endure things is to get a fresh discussion going in a new thread. (This was needed more than once as a workaround with Reep.)
From: Starhaven Consulate, City of Angels | Registered: Jul 2003
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In regards to the duplicate thread rule (which has really been around since the beginning of LW, and is nothing new), I'm not sure one can "pin down" specific rules as to "how different" a topic has to be from another topic before it counts as a duplicate. The goal is to encourage positive discussion. Generally speaking, having two threads on the same subject diffuses discussion rather than promoting it. It ultimately ends up being a judgment call on behalf of the mods/founders as to whether a particular thread should be merged or deleted.
As for "Calling the Roll", I believe you can indeed take it to be a "special exception" to the rule. It is an exception that probably exists more for historical than for principled reasons, however. I think it's fair to say that posters should not be encouraged by its existence to try to develop their own review threads from "different initial perspectives".
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