The PRO/CON/yay/nay/erect phallus/hamster Olive Branch Proposal

[Raiders]

OK. We've reached a maximum level of internet dorkery and need to come to a conclusion on how we represent our super-awesome three-letter opinions to the other 80 people who actually post here. I have decided, in an effort to exert my utilitarian-yet-autonomous power, to come up with this solution. It is as follows:

• There will be a subforum of the General Discussion Forum for 2012 (then 2013, etc...) films.
• Each film will get its own thread.
• The threads will be set up as a poll wherein you will be able to view who voted what.
  • The poll options will be simply "yay" or "nay"
• I will enable for that forum only the ability to rate the thread. This will be for the use of rating the film. I have already changed the rating options to specify that you are rating the film and the five-star labels now say "PRO" through "CON."
  • This feature has it built-in to add-up the total # of votes and create an average rating from 1 to 5 with decimals.
  • This will be displayed at the top of the thread as well as on the main forum page under the thread's name (which will be the film's name).
  • You can look in the Maintenance forum where I have tested this.
• Through my access to the MySQL database, I will extract every couple of days all the new votes and place in each film's initial post all votes, PRO through CON, and who voted what so you more easily see the votes.
• There will also be a stickied master thread where we can also keep the interesting stats such as most-viewed, most yay-ed, highest rating, and so forth.

I also propose that we use these threads as the film's discussion thread moving forward and we can provide a link in the first thread to the film's thread, if it has one, in the Upcoming forum.

This would also mean that the threads would be open indefinitely instead of closed soon after the year is over. However, importantly, I will not continue to update the first thread with the PRO/CON rating votes.

OK, let me know if anyone has any objections.

[number8]

Cool idea, I suppose. I vote that for pro, it displays Watashi's O face.

[Watashi]

Cool idea, I suppose. I vote that for pro, it displays Watashi's O face.

What?

[transmogrifier]

No objections whatsoever. Glad someone who knows what they are doing has made a decision Good work.

[Watashi]

What about those obscure films that only NickGlass will see at his local film festival? Will those films get their own separate thread? What about for movies that already have threads in the upcoming forum? Will we start a new thread or just add a poll onto the old one?

[Raiders]

What about those obscure films that only NickGlass will see at his local film festival? Will those films get their own separate thread? What about for movies that already have threads in the upcoming forum? Will we start a new thread or just add a poll onto the old one?

All 2012 US release films will get their own thread, just as E tracked them all. Films with no 2012 US release date will not be created. We'll wait for their eventual release to add them. There will also be a general request thread and people can there discuss any films they want added, especially those few where they don't get a US release but many have seen them.

But, the forum will be open to people to create new threads, so this can and should be somewhat communally governed. I can edit any post, so whoever creates a new thread for a film should just leave the first post blank for me to add to.

The Upcoming threads would no longer be auto-transformed into the film's thread. I stated in the first post, we will add a link in the first post of the new thread directing to the Upcoming thread's discussion.

[Dukefrukem]

And people complained about me making too many threads?

I like this.

[MadMan]

Cool ritch:

[Dukefrukem]

Although there will be confusion on where to post discussion. Are you going to close the thread in the Upcoming FIlm section?