This idea was conceived (cough) in Whiskey's thread about a sex and relationship forum so I thought we should give it its own thread to reduce rottiness.
Smoothly made this remark:
Sleaze, in a F,TV&T thread mentioned that he wanted to talk about Private Eye, but that he didn't know where to start a thread about it. Arguably, there's a stronger case for a Newspapers & Magazines forum.
Then I added:
That newspaper and magazine idea is a good'un Smoothly. I often think I'd like to start a thread on an interesting news item that's not fit for Switchboard but at the same time I don't want to start stacks of threads in convo for individual little news items.
I had considered a long-running thread in convo for "Daily Interesting News Items" or summat, but in general I'm not a fan of big catch-all threads.
Sleazenation:
Alternatively the Books forum could have its remit extended to include print media. I realize that the addition of radio to the remit of the music forum has hardly been a resounding success, but with moderators leading the discussion a fair few interesting threads could ensue...
Mordant:
That's not a bad idea. Change "Books and Literature" to "The Printshop" or somesuch, and we can all bang on about magazines and papers too (says the person who hardly ever posts in Books).
Fridge:
Maybe Books and Literature should be really more Writing, whether it's in a book, a paper, on a web page? I can't think of a snappy title for that.
It wouldn't be the place to discuss news items (unless they're about books/papers/writing of course) - the subject of the news items should determine where that happened, not the fact that they were in a newspaper.
Sleaze again:
OK on the extended books tip how about: "Books, print and publishing" as a handy catch all for printed and published material?
What does everyone else think? |
