# Small Cafe Society suggestion **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 29, 2017, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-cafe-society-suggestion/797585 "2017-09-29T10:47:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-cafe-society-suggestion/797585/1 "2017-09-29T10:47:22Z")
This is a suggestion for users, not mods; it proposes no new rule; if you don’t like it nobody’s gonna make you do it; etc. Anyway, I enjoy reading and posting in threads about TV shows. Often I watch at a slower pace than others, though, and so I choose between waiting to read the thread until I’m done with the season, or risking spoilers. So here’s my idea. If you’re posting in a thread about a show, AND if you realize that you’re the first one posting about a new episode, AND if you feel like it, what about just mentioning it’s a new episode? The massive Order of the Stick thread does this with a giant link every time. The best way in a TV show might be a large link with the episode number and title: Episode 7: The Periwinkle Catastrophe But even without that, something like > [@](#): > > NEW EPISODE would make it easier for folks to read along. Just a thought… ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-cafe-society-suggestion/797585/2 "2017-09-29T11:10:07Z")
I suggested something similar a couple of years ago (It didn’t take). I just wish people would put in the post title what episode they’re posting about. And for the more popular shows, I wish people would start a new thread for each episode. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-cafe-society-suggestion/797585/3 "2017-09-30T20:17:45Z")
It’s a good suggestion. I know I’ve been reading threads and suddenly come across a spoiler for an episode I haven’t seen. I try to announce in my threads when I do so. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2017, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-cafe-society-suggestion/797585/4 "2017-10-02T01:34:35Z")
I get why folks don’t start a new thread each time: for shows without a huge following, it’s probably easier to follow everything in one long thread than to skip between threads, and especially to link back to previous threads to maintain continuity. But a small note would be nice.