Hey, see what I did there! This post off the main post has a sub-heading subject, this sub-section could be devoted entirely to a topical vidcap threads discussion. That is an example of one of the things we can do here at Blows, how we can take advantage of the threaded programming here, employ an option we have here that isn't available on other sites. Nothing against those sites but wading through page after page of sequentially arranged posts is not condusive to certain types of sanely organized discussions. I'll get back to this.

Okay, consensus. Consensus is basically just a general agreement or understanding about how things are, how we do things. We've had that in the past and we need to get back to having that. That's what I meant by consensus. It doesn't have to be formalized as a contract or anything, the consensus we had before resulted from evolution in the forum as much as from having some guidelines about comportment from AyaK and Webby.

The past is important, I didn't mean to suggest otherwise. It formed us here. Blows went from a very chaotic spoiling site to a very organized spoiling site, it took intent and discipline and some investment in rules, making it work, to do that. And it doesn't have to be complicated; it just has to be understood, and we each have to have the discipline to follow it.

Krautboy has some good suggestion above, some easy things to do and be organized and disciplined. Spoiler warnings in a spoiler forum were always a bit insane, it is after all a spoiler forum. Want a Speculation Only thread each week, that could work, just make it clear it is the weekly Speculation Only thread. We could actually have a few more definitions and hopefully not get too complicated. Veruca's editing threads are actually Analysis threads, we stay on topic in those threads because we understand it is about the editing, what we've already seen. Are there more breakdowns we could consider?

Okay, back to vidcap threads! With the sub-headings we can break weekly vidcap threads into two sections without having to have duplicate threads. How could we work it? Good question. Whoever starts the thread could then immediately post one sub-heading, Visual Analysis Only Section. And then post another sub-heading, Full-On Spoiling Below This Point! Yeah, you might want to come up with a better way of saying that. Anyway, done this way everyone would be able to open the vidcap threads and get what they want from them, it just takes the discipline to make it work.

Would this be too complicated? Well, actually, yes, it might be; and it is not a model of how every thread could be done. With just one promo it could work fairly easily, but more promos come out each week and other visuals, photos, are released each week. So, yes, it could be too unweildy to really work. Maybe we could try it for a week or two and see how it goes, see if it can work, find out what other bugs there may be in the prototypes.

And I'll be honest with you here about something: My least favorite solution is a Speculation Forum. I like having everything organized, I really do, but I also like having it all here where I can find it. But that's me and, hey, that's on the table for discussion as well.