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You mean, sort of like "book club" / fanfic club" / "AMV club" /"podfic club"? I find the goals of the club idea a little fuzzy though -- if the aim is to generate content for Fanlore, then that would shape the discussion differently than if it was just all free-form or for knowledge generation (e.g. if we had a book club on "PHP for Dummies".) I'm also not sure how pertintent "prompting" is for Fanlore -- sort of, generating "fresh" opinion specifically for compiling into an article vs. documenting what occurs "naturally"/unprompted (b/c with the latter you ghave sampling bias, but with the former you have like... selection bias?). So I really believe the primary goal of the book club needs to be made clear -- I still think it's a great idea, I'm just not sure if it isn't a bit too general for Fanlore forums specifically.


Now on to take a closer look at Vanilla Forums :)