However, having a single thread for ALL future titles seems too disorganized to me. If there's 4 or 5 upcoming titles and you want to discuss only one in particular, while the next user wishes to comment on another, you don't have a focused discussion. And checking the thread every time there's a new post just to see if there's a new title seems annoying. You can keep it simple without keeping it condensed. That's just my own take, as I know there's others who would be fine with a single thread.
A single thread for speculation/discussion regarding upcoming episodes is rather unreasonable. Too many good posts regarding any one episode would be lost under the poor posts of 3+ other episodes being discussed.
A [potentially] more successful single thread would be for people to post confirmed facts about the episodes in, which enables users who simply want to read spoilers regarding the upcoming episodes to do so without wading through speculation, and allows users who wish to speculate to do so in the episode's proper speculation thread.
Of course, checking for a new title would probably be annoying, so there COULD be two threads, one for reporting new titles which would ONLY be posted in when word of new titles or title changes occurs, and another thread for posting the preview and other confirmed info about the episodes. Then the unstickied, typical speculation thread created by a user with the preview included.
Now whether the speculation thread is created prior to the preview [which seems pointless as there's generally only a title to speculate from] or once the preview is up would have to be determined.
Basically it might look like this:
sticky New Jap Episode Titles [in which users post the new episode titles and changes as they are confirmed, perhaps even the director and the summary if available]
sticky Confirmed Information on Upcoming Episodes: DP##4-##6 [in which confirmed info regarding appearences, VAs, plots and the like are posted for the current upcoming episodes so those interested can view the thread and acquire such info without speculation]
DP### Speculation Thread [in which speculation occurs as usual based off the info in the Confirmed Info thread]
*shrugs* just a thought on the situation from someone who's rather bored of sorting through speculation threads for actual spoilers.
Kiori said:
I disagree. That's not team work. Imo, team work also consist of gaining each person's idea about the issue than relying just on one's own opinion. Since it may lead to discrepancy and inefficiency, I don't think that'll work. 'Sides, some of the members are going to get bonkers if the mod incharge of that thread isn't on and when they PM another anime staff they are told to wait until that mod gets online.
Ah, the fact my notion wasn't really team work didn't occur to me when I posted it. I was assuming each mod would have the same standardized posts they'd infract/warn for or delete, but of course each one has their own opinions.
And the member factor, of some raging if a post isn't gone immediately. Which is why I suggested a mod who handles reports from any thread and doesn't have any set assigned threads, so in the instance the thread's mod wasn't on and there was a post breaking the rules it would be dealt with. Then again they might not be on at that time either or for a while so there's the same problem of it not being handled
But like I said I'm not 'in the know' of how exactly the modding is done in this section so if mods feel the current situation works best [which is questionable to me simply because this thread was created] as opposed to ANY variation I wish them well.
*salutes* ;493;