Charles Capps
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In case you han't noticed, the DS9 forum is pretty dead, and I don't anticipate it reviving any time soon...
Should it be eliminated soon (posts would be integrated with General Discussion), or at a later date? By soon, I mean when I upgrade this place to UBB 5.39x two weeks from now.
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Well, if it were up to me (which it isn't ), I'd make the DS9 Forum a Series V Forum. I think there's more than enough speculation even now to fuel it.
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I'm in favor of still keeping the two forums, just dedication one to News and Spoilers (be it Fifth Series or Voyager related) and the other to Reviews and Nitpicks of episodes as they show. General ought to be able to absorb all the rest, be it discussion of Voyager's trip home or the latest kinky antics between Pat Stewart and Wendy.
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A Spoiler - Non-spoiler split?? I don't think that's going to work. I'm in favour of removing the DS9 forum, and leave it that way until we can add a series 5 forum.
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Charles Capps
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I'm actually partial to Tom's reccomendation in this case...
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If you're going to have spoiler and non-spoiler Forums, at least call them by their real names, North American and Rest Of The World Forums - because that's what they'll be. . .
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It's not really as much a spoiler/nospoiler split as you think... I mean, your average Brit should be able to wade in the News/Spoilers board and read the odd thing that is pretty minor stuff and more newsy than spoilersy. I'd still like to see Spoiler warnings enforced, no matter how redundant they may be.
Reviews/Nitpicks is more of an oddball... I can't see it being too popular, but basically it would contain episode-specific threads, therefore we could see discussion of episodes both as they first air stateside and on CIC side by side without to much risk of contaminating the poor offlanders.
GD's spoiler content would lighten quite heavily. I can't see it being declared "spoiler-free", but incidents of contamination ought to be less common with a more spoilerish board in place.
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I like Tom's idea. It doesn't sound like a continetal split among the posters at all. I'm sure many people would post in both, about as many that currently post in the Voyager forum.
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I live in Holland, and we get the videos at the same time as the British people. One of our own Dutch TV stations is going to catch up with the Voyager tapes in just over a month.
We and some other countries are only half a year behind on the USA, and I think that still counts as the 'spoiler area'.
So if you want to make a 'spoiler forum' make it a forum with things that are brand new (including rumors) to about a year after that, and put the rest in General Discussion.
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As I see it, the problem is that the overseas community on this forum is still a minority, and while steps like the above will reduce the exposure to spoilers, it's unfair (not to mention impractical) to restrict discussion of "current" (by North American standards) stuff from what essentially is our "main" Trek board, post numbers aside.
Flare has one of the more international communities among Trek boards, and our more stringent attitudes towards spoilers reflects that. But other Trek boards run what is essentially a "General Discussion" board where new stuff can be discussed, and what North American wants to discuss, say, Voyager's trip home unless you can include the latest jumps etc.
Just my two cents, of course.
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), I'd make the DS9 Forum a Series V Forum. I think there's more than enough speculation even now to fuel it.
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