Festival occurs when a new thread has begun, but people are still posting to/ reading the old thread. Once you see Ransom’s visual invitation to the new thread, you are in Festival.. where things get unruly. Some posters miss the visual invitation and are lost for a time on the old thread... posting valiantly to no one. Some posters, who want to post something iffy go back and post it in Festival.
Bagster coined the term as a reference to a Star Trek episode, which can be found on YouTube. It captures the mood of Festival well.
We’ve been together over three years and have developed our own lingo... and have borrowed some from the chan anons.
Welcome, newbies!
Nothing beats massaging a 4 paragraph, 6 link comment into perfection, hitting the post button, and discovering you are 12 minutes into festival.