Picking up the discussion from here.
The proposal is thus:
- a new community would be created [email protected] (displayed as New Releases) where new threads would be created to have a general discussion on new cinematic releases
- the format of the initial post would be similar to https://lemmy.film/post/296531 with a dedicated mod/team of mods to keep content fresh and flowing
- all discussion regarding new releases would then go in [email protected]. General discussion regarding said film(s) posted elsewhere other than [email protected] may possibly be flagged and deleted unless…
- the post or comment’s subject is something tangential to or very specific of the new release
- the film is no longer considered a new release (a lasso of time TBD? Dependent on the film, I suppose)
Nothing is as of yet written in stone. Voice your opinion and ideas in the comments.
If you want a specific community like this here at lemmy.film, vote this post up.
If you don’t and would like that we continue posting BarbeQ, Oppenclosenhasenpfeffer and Mission: Interminable threads in [email protected], vote this post down.
Voting closes at midnight GMT+2, Thursday, August 3 2023. A minimum of 20 upvotes is necessary to create this new community. ¿Claro?
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I suspect you’ll create a lot of work for someone.
The rule for Movies&TV becomes: “Post about movies, but not those movies”. The criteria seems a bit vague - Barbie and Oppenheimer are obviously new releases, but is They Cloned Tyrone? If the criteria is “New releases that we’re bored of seeing posts about”, the posts need to happen before a decision can be made.
Also, at the risk of seeming obsessed: if you’re seeing a lot of Oppenheimer / Barbie posts, they’re mostly from one user. If - let’s say - a user from KBIN was posting here for movie stuff, but posting all their other opinions to
exploding-heads.com, then you may not be able to expect the level of engagement required from them to accurately discern where their posts should go.I suspect you’ll create a lot of work for someone.
I do too…namely, myself! 🤣😭 Believe me, I’m just trying to do the will of the…what do you call yourselves again?..ah, yes, “people.”
The rule for Movies&TV becomes: “Post about movies, but not those movies”.
Emphasis mine. There’s an upside to that: [email protected] would effectively become more TV oriented, more general movie discussion and “less hundreds-of-the-samey-post-about-new-release-X”. That, and the databasey template information post format (example 1, example 2), both appeal to my OCD 😁. The downside is, humans being what they are, that idea will quickly turn into corraling cats and that post format would never be followed unless !newreleases has
a dictator for aa scrupulous mod like @[email protected] over at [email protected] . Hmmm…maybe a bot account could at least create the properly formatted first post, I’d imagine…but that’s beyond my abilities.And, yes, They Cloned Tyrone would have gone into !newreleases, being exactly that.
As far as the one-fount mini-deluge of posts you speak of, that’s of no real concern. As long as the posts are relevant to the community and subject at hand and they “play nice” why would I even want to touch them! That’s the kind of participation that makes us happy! 🤗 It pains my icy heart to see virtual tumbleweeds in some of our other communities. But if these posts or the poster becomes a real problem for this instance or a community, I have no problem pressing the shiny red button on them.
Remember: doing absolutely nothing is always an option.
…cue the 🤬 PipedBot
As I said earlier, I think you make this too complicated.
I would suggest to keep it easy and just do it as they do in [email protected] with their two pinned threads for Barbie and Oppenheimer, and that’s it.
A new movie releases? A mod opens [Movie Discussion Thread: Name of the movie]. Movies are the biggest releases of the week/month? Posts are pinned.
The objective is to avoid having someone looking for those threads, as in the original request you linked.
The objective is to avoid having someone looking for those threads, as in the original request you linked.
I didn’t think people had to look for a Barbie/Oppenheimer/M: I/Asteroid City thread. The real trick was/is avoiding those posts! 🤣 But, hey, I’m still down with the pinned new release thread idea.
Thimking aloud:
- Your suggestion is probably the most friction-free method of handling this.
- When do you suggest they get unpinned? Just for
lazinessefficiency’s sake it’d be easier to set a firm expiration date instead of watching and waiting until the commenting dies down 🕸. - Which new releases? All of them? I’ve got (for example) Rotten Tomatoes’ 2023 new releases page open (OMG! They’ve remade The Color Purple? Why??) and some of these I’m not sure are going to be…threadworthy to the general public. Meh…pixels and kilobytes are free, I suppose, as long as someone pays the electric bill.
I didn’t think people had to look for a Barbie/Oppenheimer/M: I/Asteroid City thread.
The original person in that thread was looking for it, so I guess they are not that obvious as they should: https://lemmy.film/post/349919
- When to unpin: 6 weeks after release?
- Which new releases: the two biggest box offices of the week? So from week to week discussions posts could be pinned or unpinned to reflect the audience interest
Food for thought. Thanks, @[email protected].
You are welcome!
Y’know…screw it! Let’s try this pinned post thang! Shortly I will post in [email protected] a couple of new release general discussion pinned posts. Let’s see how it plays out!
Thanks for all your inputs! Rock and roll! 🪨n🧻
