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Jimmer
Moderator

08-30-2000

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 12:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
There seems to be considerable discussion about how many threads we want/need for The Mole. We don't want to distract from discussing the show itself, so here is a thread specifically for that purpose.

We can offer you two options:

Option 1:

Keep things the way they are. The advantage to this option is that the discussion will be more consolidated and people will probably be less confused about where to post.


Option 2:

Open the area so that anyone can create any thread about any subject regarding the Mole. The advantage is that we can have very specific threads if we like. Please remember that unless it is otherwise specified in the thread title, discussion of clues will be allowed in a thread.

The disadvantage to Option 2 is that people may not be sure what thread to post in and the discussion could get more spread out.

Everyone please remember that if we do decide to go with this option we simply can not have people telling other people that they have posted in the wrong thread. That is against the TVCH rules.

So let us know what you think. Take the quiz! We will go with the majority.

LOL – Sometimes I feel like we are on the show ourselves.

Oh and if you have other suggestions, please feel free to offer them. But please keep the discussion about threads in this thread so we don't distract from discussing the show in the other threads.

Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 12:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
Option 1 gets my vote!! I like it the way it is - with the ratings low, I'm afraid if we spend too much time organizing the show will get cancelled!! :-(

Option 2 has too much room for mistakes, then the mods will have to field complaints..

Reader234
Member

08-13-2000

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 12:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Reader234 a private message Print Post    
Option 3 - what was option 3 again???

IF you want to start another thread and just call it Show Night - and we can keep all the shows in there - but that tends to get discussion of what we are seeing, or a comment or question - and we have a folder for that!!

Plus if anyone doesnt want to be spoiled on show night, they dont open up the folders!

or maybe that wouldnt work - - if like what happened last night - since it didnt seem like anyone was reading what I was typing, I just stopped...

Karuuna
Board Administrator

08-31-2000

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 12:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
IthinkJimmeristhemole!

mole

Jimmer
Moderator

08-30-2000

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 12:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
I was going to include a third suggestion and then I thought that I'd leave it open.

Actually, Karuuna suggested the same thing that you're suggesting Reader.

As you say though, it is nice to get a little response so you know that there are people out there reading it.

Scooterrific
Member

07-08-2005

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 12:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scooterrific a private message Print Post    
Oh lookie here!!! I think Jimmer is up for more sleepless nights!!!

Jimmer
Moderator

08-30-2000

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 12:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
LOL – I think Kar may be right.

ETA: Thanks .... Scooter. You're too ..... kind. Always thinking of me.

Kitt
Member

09-06-2000

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 12:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
Option 1: as it is.

Scooterrific
Member

07-08-2005

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 12:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scooterrific a private message Print Post    
Jimmer I'm a giver...give...give...give it's what I do!!!

Tntitanfan
Member

08-03-2001

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 1:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
Option 1 for me -

And you mods are awesome!

Sugar
Member

08-15-2000

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 2:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sugar a private message Print Post    
Just leave it alone please, we already have too many.

Lexie_girl
Member

07-30-2004

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 2:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
We have waaaaaaaaay too many threads for this show. Please leave it as is.

Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 3:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
I'm confused enough already, don't know where to post, so ...

Webchiq
Member

07-11-2005

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 3:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Webchiq a private message Print Post    
The show is all about clues and speculations. There really isn't anything else to talk about with regard to the show, that is interesting. Anything we say about something we noticed is going to be either a clue or speculation. If someone doesn't want to hear that there was something sighted in the show, then they need to stay away from the thread, as it was aired on the television. Do I wish that I didn't know about the clue in the first episode that I read about here? Yes, kind of, but I came to the thread and it is what it is. There are smart people who catch things.

Chy
Member

07-19-2003

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 4:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chy a private message Print Post    
But I thought the option #3 was good:
One thread per episode like the way we have with other reality shows we care to talk about.

There's going to be some nights when I have to play the "Concert in the Park" thingy and would like very much to be able to just open the show night thread and read on before they bother to put the show on line.

I don't think that would be confusion inducing. That's how we have Survivor and Tar, no one ever said that was too many threads or too confusing???

I'm not talking about starting new threads every time someone notices something or has a brain fart. We are the TVCHers, we know self-control.

Kar, btw, ;) I didn't mean the size when I talked about the show not being any less. I meant that it's as good a show as those other reality shows I mentioned.

One more thing, as Webchiq mentions it, is it okay to talk in the no clues thread about things shown on tv during the show which causes me to speculate? <I don't mean anything you need to see in slow-mo or freeze-frame either. I mean things like, one player seemed to pretend to want to take the bribe. >

Jimmer
Moderator

08-30-2000

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 6:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
LOL – I have no clue.

Seriously, the problem with creating "definitions" for threads is that everyone has a bit of a different opinion about what should be considered discussing clues vs. general show discussion.

So someone will say something like, "Clay had a funny expression on his face when he asked Craig that question" and someone else will respond, "Hey wait a minute! That's a clue!"

The main thing that we try to do as TVCH'rs is be accommodating and try to post in the spirit of the threads and not get upset if someone sees something a little differently.

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Right now it seems that the majority is leaning toward keeping the threads as they are now. As Moderators we don't feel strongly about it one way or the other and are happy to go with what most people want. But we'll continue to keep an eye on this thread to see if that changes or if there are further suggestions.

For people who don't know what thread to post in, I would say that the thread that covers just about everything except true spoilers is the "General Discussion, Clues and Speculation" thread.

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 7:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
I am happy whatever way we do it. I just love the Mole!

and yes Jimmer is on my moledar

Scooterrific
Member

07-08-2005

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 5:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scooterrific a private message Print Post    
Er just my two cents...I think another 68 threads would do just fine :-)

<Jimmer u will miss me when I'm gone..lol>

Colordeagua
Member

10-25-2003

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 6:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
No more threads. There's already speculatin' goin' on in the "No Speculating" thread.

Brenda1966
Member

07-03-2002

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 7:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Brenda1966 a private message Print Post    
I vote for #1 - no new threads.

However, I do think the "no clues no speculation" thread should just be "no clues". Those of us that wanted a separate thread are trying to avoid clues, not guesses about who is the mole. People who are into clues wouldn't be in that thread speculating anyways. But those of us who are clueless, LOL, would like to be able to guess who the mole is or talk about suspicious behavior without going into the Clued threads.

Lexie_girl
Member

07-30-2004

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 8:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
Yeah, what Brenda just said... I think.

Chy, what separates Survivor, Amazing Race and American Idol from the other threads are those are shows that are spoiled in detail on a weekly basis for the Westies (and we love our Westies). Idol's Tuesday and Wednesday night threads can generate hundreds of posts each and they have to be separate.



Colordeagua
Member

10-25-2003

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 9:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
But how can you speculate without talking about what could be a clue -- at least as it appears to you? That's all that goes on in the "discussion with clues and speculation" thread.

Brenda1966
Member

07-03-2002

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 10:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Brenda1966 a private message Print Post    
You can speculate without clues because we are speculating based on behaviors (ie Clay didn't participate in the clothes finding) rather than on thumbprints on helmets or numbers on diary books. I believe that's what those of us who desire a "clue-free" area are wanting. We don't want to talk about how 5 minutes into the show the number 5 appeared so that means someone with a five digit name must be the mole. But we are fine talking about how someone didn't seem to know any Spanish in ep 1 but is suddenly speaking Spanish and that seems mole-like.

Am I explaining this well?

Happymom
Member

01-20-2003

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 10:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Happymom a private message Print Post    
I like it the way it is now with the 4 threads. (plus this one to answer the question) It is nice and organized and I like not having to wade through lots of clues just to hear what people thought of the show. (and I think everything is a clue and everyone seems to be the mole! I could write pages of posts (speculation) supporting why so and so is the mole etc!)

I don't feel really strongly about the number of threads though.

Colordeagua
Member

10-25-2003

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 10:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
IMHO, what a contestant does or doesn't do could be a clue too -- could be done or not done purposely.