Picking up the discussion from here.

The proposal is thus:

  • a new community would be created !newreleases@lemmy.film (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 !newreleases@lemmy.film. General discussion regarding said film(s) posted elsewhere other than !newreleases@lemmy.film 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 !moviesandtv@lemmy.film, 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?

All comments, ideas and semi-intelligent input is invited. Any volunteers for moderator positions, please make yourselves known. Kibitzers, kvetches and general nudniks, please make yourselves unknown. Thank you.

@King Mongoose

  • Blaze (he/him)English
    1·
    1 year ago

    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 !movies@lemmy.world 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.

    • King Mongoose@lemmy.filmOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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 laziness efficiency’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.


      @King Mongoose

      • Blaze (he/him)English
        1·
        1 year ago

        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