Quoted from -Ben- How long will this be going for?

It's a mystery.  

Don

I find the screenwriting class to be a very helpful resource...I've been able to get many answers to questions re: how to write my screenplay in it.  

I also see and agree with your goal in streamlining the board.  

Bottom Line: I'm torn...hopefully a happy medium can be reached.

Jaykur this is never going to be permanent because Don is a smart man and knows if he cut out the other boards the message boards will die. This is what happens when you guys ignore the screenplay sections though and I hope this shocks people into realizing that the real reason these boards exist is because of the screenplays.

So, what's the deal with this "DOM" guy who has read about 8 bazillion things in the last day and a half?

Is he for real or what?

This guy even woke up the thread for "The Walters" haha.

Quoted from bert Is he for real or what?

It heard rumours he even read #747  

I've noticed this too. He's a major script necromancer pulling things I've haven't seen up in ages. He probably did read 747...oh wait, I haven't written it yet...oh wait, that wasn't mine, was it? Is it? Man, I need to get more sleep.

Of course, we should be careful socializing on the one and only thread still open other than the script threads. We'll get ourselves locked down...

I'm beinning to retract my "no" vote.  I am really enjoying this.  Often times I have found myself coming to these boards to read scripts and end up "Just checking in" on things like general chat when BAM!  I dont't read anything at all.

Now not only have I had more time to read, but I've written alot as well.  I like this, and think we should do it monthly.

I'm enjoying this as well.  It feels more peaceful knowing that the other boards aren't around and there aren't any fights going on.

I was about to ask what happened to the other subforums, then I came to this thread. I miss the general discussion

I'm afraid I'd like to retract my yes vote as well. Sure it's peaceful around here now but it's borderline dead. No more scripts are getting reviewed than usual and most of them are scripts that have been heavily reviewed already and unearthed from long ago (I myself have done this but for what I consider to be a good reason). This is actually something I feared would happen. None of the newer scripts seem to be getting any reads.

This isn't to say that this experiment is without its benefits. Hopefully, everyone will learn something from this. But I'd hate to see this become a permenant thing. As some have already said, the boards would most likely die.

Quoted from Higgonaitor Now not only have I had more time to read, but I've written alot as well.  I like this, and think we should do it monthly.

I'm with you Higg. One week a month would be cool. As for the people who say this hasn't increased the amount of scripts being reviewed, I think it's too early to tell, we should review it at the end of the trial. I'm off to a slow start because I was in the middle of reading a feature length script when this started, but once that's out of the way, I'll let fly with a bunch of short script reviews.

It is a bit quiet, isn't it.

I reckon Screenwriting Class should at least be open for business. I have a few good articles I could post in there.

I guess I'll review a few shorts but I'm swamped at the moment. I miss all the regular banter.

It may be mostly dead, but it is interesting to see the board stats in Portal and find out which script boards are visted the most.

Bear in mind that I do not take any umbrage at the dissenters with regard to this little experiment (as long as you can disagree without posting porn to the site).  And, I'm not being defensive, however, take a look at the stats (scroll down a bit and check the day to day stats)  Very interesting.  

http://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?v-stats/

Regardless, I am going to turn up a few of the other boards in the next couple of days.  

And, yes.  I will get all those scripts that have been submitted over the last week up on the site.  

Don

Don, that link only works for administrators, which I am not.