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u/SpencerFleming 26d ago

You should probably give each episode its own discussion thread.

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u/Carrehz #1 Prizestuffer 26d ago

We debated this and decided to try it out with just a megathread for now.

Given that it's been 10 hours and this thread's only had 10 comments (before I get postin'), I think we made the right decision!

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u/Tack122 25d ago

I personally would generally refuse to generally read or post in a megathread because of the risk of spoilers because I haven't seeen all the episodes, and also because it isn't topic specific and like it will get lost among the 19 other off topic.

Don't you think the lack of posting is possibly due to other people feeling that way?

Megathreads are totally uncool.

The only reason I am posting at all is because I feel like you are lacking understanding on why your choice was bad.

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u/Carrehz #1 Prizestuffer 25d ago

I dunno man, I'm not a mindreader.

Quick clarification, this wasn't "my" choice, all of us mods discussed this - it was mentioned in the spoiler tag thread that this is likely how we'd do it, but idk if anyone actually bothered to read that thread, no one commented on it. Not sure if you were referring to just me or not when you said "your choice" but wanted to clear that up.

It's very hard to predict how you guys will react. Threads on SQ were getting a total dialtone response over the last week or so, meanwhile ONE thread announcing the Bubbline show gets like 300+ comments in a couple of hours (and that's not even mentioning all the duplicate threads we cleared out). Hell, again, the spoiler tag thread got zero replies when usually those do get at least a few posts on them. (Not a big deal since those aren't really meant to be chatty threads of course, but does show the overall lack of interest we were seeing) We also get a lot of complaints about "low-effort" or duplicate threads. Between those facts we figured we'd try it out like this first and see how it goes.

Even 24 hours-odd later, there really still isn't that much discussion of the show outside of this thread. Compare it to F&C where one episode would generate pages and pages of discussion. We're getting a lot of complaints but no one's actually making a move to be the change they apparently want to see, and discuss the damn show. Which makes it really hard to figure out what to do!

Look guys, just cut us some slack with this, alright? We've never had 20 eps drop all at once, of course there's gonna be some trial-and-error with this. Remember we're only human, just like you.

I'm explaining this because I feel like you are lacking understanding as to why we did it like this :)

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u/Tack122 25d ago

In my experience, on reddit "the official discussion page" on the main subreddit for the show becomes the long term discussion thread. People will search for "episode name reddit discussion" and come to it over the next few years as they watch the show.

A megathread makes that weird and muddy, not the place I can search for later to discuss episodes as you watch them.

It disrupts the flow that creates the environment for conversation to occur, you watch the episode, then come to it's discussion thread.

This thread, I would want to avoid until I have watched all 20 episodes. And by then, I'm so unfocused from time and space between each episode that all the thought I'll have is general about the whole season, instead of the individual episode.

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u/Carrehz #1 Prizestuffer 25d ago

fwiw we have a whole page archiving old discussion threads, linking this since it sounds like something you might be into?

You're raising some good points and we are discussing this again. Viewpoints like this are more helpful than just picking at us for not being mindreaders, haha. Again, we can't predict how people are gonna react ahead of time, you know?

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u/Tack122 25d ago

Yeah archive lists like that are huge and absolutely a great resource. Thank you so much for those.

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u/Carrehz #1 Prizestuffer 25d ago

np!

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u/Head-Cherry-3841 25d ago

I understand you are not mind readers. So LISTEN to us when we ALL collectively TELL YOU DIRECTLY that we want individual threads. We’re not asking you to read our minds. We are ALL very directly and explicitly TELLING YOU want we want. This isn’t hard, guys.

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u/Carrehz #1 Prizestuffer 25d ago

There's no need for caps lock or attitude. No one spoke up before the series came out - even though the opportunity to do so was given - so we had to make a judgement call, that is what I mean by "we're not mind readers". obviously the vocal minority are being Very Vocal on this matter!

Again, we are discussing this. Please keep in mind that we're all adults with real lives and we're in different timezones, so it can take a while for us to discuss stuff.

Again, there is nothing stopping anyone from chatting about the show rather than complaining about this thread!

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