Saturday, 30 January 2010

NOTIFICATION: Scope Changes (Part 2)

After having some time to think about what would be a good medium between no reviews at all and the endless problems I got into under the old policy, here's my current thinking as to when I'll be posting on this blog in future.

  • Notifications: All prior notification categories remain in scope. Any exclusions from before still stand: e.g. there will be no pre-season notifications for broadcasting seasons, because these are hyped enough already!
  • Season premieres: All season premieres will remain in scope, except for for broadcasting seasons. This was a tough decision but it'll give me some time for the premiere to sink in for those shows that I haven't watched for a long time.
  • Season finales: All season finales will remain in scope, but will not be required as part of the "finale day aftermath" process anymore. This means I can effectively write the season finale review anytime. These reviews will now serve as a review of the whole season.
  • Midseason premieres: Contrary to what I said earlier, these will not be in scope anymore.
  • Midseason finales: These will be treated on a case-by-case basis. Generally midseason finale reviews will be written for good shows where the midseason finale was a big event in the life of the show, however there may be other considerations. For example, I didn't write a review of [SPN] "Bells And A Siren" because although it was technically a midseason finale, there were only two more episodes produced of this show ever.
  • Commentaries: These will become more frequent but on a completely ad-hoc basis. Currently at the time of writing, there is only one post tagged "Commentary", but I intend to use the "Commentary" tag to enable me to write reviews of seasons during the actual season.
In addition to the above, a new label called "Data" will be created to allow raw data dumps of the episodes I've watched each month. There will be no deadlines on these. Some of the raw data will contain compiled statistics, I'm not sure what the details would be yet.

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