Rota Threads

Discussion going on in the BBC News thread about these at the moment - the endless presenter discussion is getting frustrating for those not interested, and I thought this should have is own thread.

I personally think separate presenter rota threads are a good idea. While they fragment the discussion further, on screen presentation of the graphical kind and presenters themselves are quite separate interests, and few people seem to care about both. Presenter threads for ITV, Sky and the BBC would leave the original generic threads free for discussion of minor things like aston and countdown tweaks, which have lately sometimes not been mentioned at all (the horror!).

Just thought I'd try to start a conversation on the matter, and hopefully have Asa and the mods chip in.

Didnt we try a rota thread a while back and it failed?

Yes, because all the gaspies sufferers were shocked that WE were disturbing their obsessive behaviour.

Just ride with it - it always dies down pretty quickly!


P.S. If anyone will moan about general threads, yep, I know it's me, but alot of the current threads are now over a year old (pre Sky News revamp) and quite frankly it would make sense to take the opportunity to close (and archive) them and start afresh in the New Year.

I have suggested before that someone should set up a wiki specifically to catalogue/record presenter lineups.


Why?! You always say that - but there is no practical difference in day-to-day usability whether a thread has 30 pages or 300.

You have this fetish about demanding the closure of threads. It's absurd.

I disagree. Id rather the old threads stay - you have all the discussion in one place then and it doesnt make sense to close threads for the sake of it.

But what does it actually achieve by closing big threads? If the 'last post' function doesn't work correctly then fair enough, but closing threads for the sake of it just seems a bit pointless to me.

How will we know whose turn it is to post in the rota thread?

Could somebody do a list, please?

Perhaps people could post their fantasy rota thread posts, too? You know the sort of thing: an ideal line-up of rota thread postings...

Ok!

Mondays - James Hall
Tuesdays - Breakfast News
Wednesdays - BBC N24
Thursdays - Londoner
Fridays - Hymagumba
Saturdays - Hymagumba
Sundays - Hymagumba

Stand-in rota manager - Alsarne
Stand-in stand-in rota manager - Alsarne
Head of Rotas - Hymagumba
Director of Rota Division - Charlie Wells
Person in Charge of Posting the Rota Thread Rota Managers Rota - James Hall

I don't do Sundays.

James Hall will be doing News 24 with Tim Willcox from 1700 to 2100 tonight.

I'm told he's also second presenter for the 6 o'clock news