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The NEW "Should we have episode specific threads for Lost?"

Poll Results: Episode specific threads for Lost?

Poll expired: Jan 27, 2009  
  • 26% (13)
    Man of Science - Yes, I like things neat and orderly.
  • 59% (29)
    Man of Faith - No, I like the unpredictable nature of it all.
  • 14% (7)
    Hurley Bird - I don't care either way. Throw me some ho hos.
49 Total Votes  
post #1 of 24
1/24/09 at 12:31pm
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I fucked up the last poll. Please vote in this thread.
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post #2 of 24
1/24/09 at 12:37pm
... No.

Thud already has episode reviews, and I'm sure they would like as much conversation in those threads as they can get.
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post #3 of 24
1/24/09 at 12:43pm
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Originally Posted by Domingo View Post
... No.

Thud already has episode reviews, and I'm sure they would like as much conversation in those threads as they can get.
This.
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post #4 of 24
1/24/09 at 1:08pm
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I'm for the big unwieldy thread. My two cents about the review threads:

1) it doesn't make sense to have two threads. No one is going to want to go back and forth between two threads to cover the same discussion. The review thread will likely take the hit.

2) People should be reading the main page regularly, but there will be/are people who don't know these review threads exist. So if the big thread seems too daunting, they'll just fail to join any discussion. Maybe they should be put in the TV forum like Devin used to do when he wrote THUD articles.

3) I find review threads garner discussion about the review itself and it will be a lot of "I agree/disagree" type posts. The big thread allows for spontaneous discussions, with many threads of discussion all going on at once.
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post #5 of 24
1/24/09 at 1:14pm
Do it linear but make it easy to look for where the discussion about certain episode begins...like I said earlier:

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episode 1 because you left
it would make it easier to look through the " "__" site:chud.com/forum" google trick
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post #6 of 24
1/24/09 at 4:25pm
Why do we need a large thread and then episode-specific threads for THUD reviews? Why not create episode-specific threads where Oliver can post his reviews? It not only creates an orderly walk through the season, but it keeps the discussion in one place. Why would we need two threads per week for people to discuss the most recent episode?
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post #7 of 24
1/24/09 at 4:32pm
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Originally Posted by flyarz View Post
Why do we need a large thread and then episode-specific threads for THUD reviews? Why not create episode-specific threads where Oliver can post his reviews? It not only creates an orderly walk through the season, but it keeps the discussion in one place. Why would we need two threads per week for people to discuss the most recent episode?
Ding ding. His review could be posted in the episode specific thread rather than somewhere else. People would be discussing the episode and any thoughts on his review in one place. Last season I got PMs from people who wanted to comment on something I said on page 20 of 50 but felt like too much time had passed in the thread and that bringing it up again would make the thread even harder to read.

I'm really confused why people are so adamant about making discussion about the show unwieldy. People don't all watch the episodes as they air, and people who catch on later in the season can either have an orderly place to see people's thoughts and share their own as they watch an episode a month old or we can force them to play needle in a haystack.
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post #8 of 24
1/24/09 at 7:19pm
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Originally Posted by A-Pathetic View Post
Ding ding. His review could be posted in the episode specific thread rather than somewhere else. People would be discussing the episode and any thoughts on his review in one place. Last season I got PMs from people who wanted to comment on something I said on page 20 of 50 but felt like too much time had passed in the thread and that bringing it up again would make the thread even harder to read.

I'm really confused why people are so adamant about making discussion about the show unwieldy. People don't all watch the episodes as they air, and people who catch on later in the season can either have an orderly place to see people's thoughts and share their own as they watch an episode a month old or we can force them to play needle in a haystack.
I suggested the stuff you posted in bold at the earlier thread, so...seconded.

And seconded the stuff in color since I will follow some days behind as usual an Old world people use to do the same. Last season I loved the discussion but I could participate at all. If they go linear mode please add a mark for each episode.
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post #9 of 24
1/25/09 at 6:53pm
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Originally Posted by Feral Akodon View Post
If they go linear mode please add a mark for each episode.
I don't know what this means.
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post #10 of 24
1/25/09 at 7:27pm
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Originally Posted by flyarz View Post
Why do we need a large thread and then episode-specific threads for THUD reviews? Why not create episode-specific threads where Oliver can post his reviews? It not only creates an orderly walk through the season, but it keeps the discussion in one place. Why would we need two threads per week for people to discuss the most recent episode?
I agree with this for all the reasons stated in this thread.
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post #11 of 24
1/26/09 at 12:16pm
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Originally Posted by Diva View Post
I don't know what this means.
If you are the first chewer to post about the episode 3, before commenting "they killed Joselo, OMG!" just write

Episode 3 Jughead

I will be easier for all the fellas that can't pick it right on time...Let say It's Friday I just watched the second episode and don't want to be spoiled reading through several pages.
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post #12 of 24
1/26/09 at 1:12pm
That would be a mess, and would fall apart immediately. Just start a new damn thread for each episode at that point.
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post #13 of 24
1/26/09 at 1:22pm
I voted for a single thread. Yes, it can get a little unwieldy. At the same time, more than one thread is going to become equally unwieldy. Part of the fun of "Lost" is speculating, responding to, and building upon previous posts and theories. Having to search through multiple threads for a single post--rather than simply backtracking to an earlier part of the same thread--is going to be as much of a headache, if not more so.
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post #14 of 24
1/26/09 at 4:24pm
Change scares me.
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post #15 of 24
1/26/09 at 4:32pm
Why don't we just try making episode specific threads for a couple of weeks, and if it catches on we keep making them. If not, we go back to the all encompassing season five thread.

Having threads for each episode would allow for the LOST Season Five thread to focus on the overall arcs and mysteries of the show/season, while the episode threads can pick apart the individual episodes as they premiere. Most of the threads will be dead by the end of the LOST week, but having the episode discussions easily accessible allows for us to go back five, ten weeks and pull up the threads in the event we learn any new information that changes or extrapolates on ideas/clues/easter eggs from prior episodes.
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post #16 of 24
1/26/09 at 6:50pm
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Originally Posted by Mattioli View Post
I voted for a single thread. Yes, it can get a little unwieldy. At the same time, more than one thread is going to become equally unwieldy. Part of the fun of "Lost" is speculating, responding to, and building upon previous posts and theories. Having to search through multiple threads for a single post--rather than simply backtracking to an earlier part of the same thread--is going to be as much of a headache, if not more so.
How much backtracking do you do? And when you do, how do you find it? For instance, like many I like "The Constant" and think it provides a lot of background on what we're learning now in the show. If I want to track that down, I have to find out when the episode aired and sort through the big thread for that date to read about the show.

I guess what I'm saying is this: the conversation will naturally evolve, even if there are separate threads. And as I tried to say above, I think separate threads will only help facilitate "backtracking," and will make it easier for new or sporadic posters to hop in on the conversation.
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post #17 of 24
1/26/09 at 6:53pm
I lean more towards the one thread idea.

But I think *if* we do go that route, there should be a sort of understanding that there's a little more leeway (than with a normal thread) for someone posting redundant thoughts. After a certain point, you can't expect someone to wade through 40-something pages that they've missed when they want to get a thought down/out there.
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post #18 of 24
1/26/09 at 7:14pm
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I lean more towards the one thread idea.

But I think *if* we do go that route, there should be a sort of understanding that there's a little more leeway (than with a normal thread) for someone posting redundant thoughts. After a certain point, you can't expect someone to wade through 40-something pages that they've missed when they want to get a thought down/out there.
You mean "Devin hates TDK" or "how fat is Hurley". Seconded.
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post #19 of 24
1/26/09 at 7:20pm
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Originally Posted by joeypants View Post
I lean more towards the one thread idea.

But I think *if* we do go that route, there should be a sort of understanding that there's a little more leeway (than with a normal thread) for someone posting redundant thoughts. After a certain point, you can't expect someone to wade through 40-something pages that they've missed when they want to get a thought down/out there.
This is part of the reason why I don't prefer giant threads in general.
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post #20 of 24
1/26/09 at 7:27pm
Redundant posting is not exclusive to giant threads though. More often than not people seem to post without prior reading of the thread no matter if 2 or 12 pages.

Anyway, though I am more a giant thread guy I can see both sides of the argument with both their merits. But at the end of the day I reckon we could just let people vote with their keyboards since we have both alternatives on the board rather than coming up with a faux democratic poll.
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post #21 of 24
1/26/09 at 7:45pm
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First, I don't think people are using the review thread as a place to discuss episode specific information. Secondly, in the large thread multiple people had requested that we start episode specifc threads outside of the review one. This thread was a way to let their voices be heard as they were being drowned out by the other discussions going on.
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post #22 of 24
1/26/09 at 8:23pm
Well, if we did the per-episode thread thing, I think it would have to be the sole LOST thread, and it wouldn't necessarily be the THUD thread, (although I think it should be where the THUD links reside so that THUD discussions can fold into everything else LOST related.)
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post #23 of 24
1/27/09 at 11:08am
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It's looking like people fear change. In any case, I PMed David Oliver and requested that he post the THUD review threads in the TV Forum so they can serve as the proxy episode specific threads.
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post #24 of 24
1/27/09 at 11:21am
I have no stake in this, because I just started the first season of the show in a third attempt to watch the whole thing. That being said, I remember back when I started here, episode-specific threads were the norm for some of the bigger genre shows, specifically Buffy and Angel. They worked really well, and when I wanted to go back and read comments about episodes after the fact (in some cases up to two years later), I was able to with relative ease.

So yeah. I vote for episode-specific threads centered around David's articles.
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