Jack's brain: Go away and stop taking me seriously. I'm being emphatic because I find it funny.
OK, ok, sorry. I tried to avoid an actual discussion on what is a spoiler because I've had it before and it didn't really go anywhere. I try to err on the side of caution wherever possible.
spoilers you've so kindly shared with us.
Was that sarcasm? I tried to be careful to keep out anything that might *actually* be a spoiler. I mentioned some actual but well known spoilers, but deliberately genericly; 'sled' isn't a spoiler if you don't know *what*'s written on it.
ou're saying they don't need spoiler warnings at all, or they just don't need to warn for the spoilers you've so kindly shared with us.
*thinks* I think I meant spoilers for the specific things I mentioned, because those are the things the rationales I gave applied to. You're right that knowing the middle of romeo and juliet *would* be a spoiler for instance.
your assumptions about what "everyone knows" are a little off so it's probably more polite to play safe than sorry
I was perhaps wrong about film endings 'everyone' knows. I shouldn't have said they didn't require a warning, but rather that it's a lost cause, because so many other people do spoil them, so there's little practical point in berating people who don't give a warning.
You may have derived pleasure from knowing someone was going to die in HP5, but you'd probably have found it less exciting if you knew who died, when and how.
True, and notice that I *did* recommend a spoiler warning for that. The footnote was a qualification that there could be a good reason to hear that quote, but I'd still leave it up to the hearer.
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Date: 2005-05-11 03:27 pm (UTC)OK, ok, sorry. I tried to avoid an actual discussion on what is a spoiler because I've had it before and it didn't really go anywhere. I try to err on the side of caution wherever possible.
spoilers you've so kindly shared with us.
Was that sarcasm? I tried to be careful to keep out anything that might *actually* be a spoiler. I mentioned some actual but well known spoilers, but deliberately genericly; 'sled' isn't a spoiler if you don't know *what*'s written on it.
ou're saying they don't need spoiler warnings at all, or they just don't need to warn for the spoilers you've so kindly shared with us.
*thinks* I think I meant spoilers for the specific things I mentioned, because those are the things the rationales I gave applied to. You're right that knowing the middle of romeo and juliet *would* be a spoiler for instance.
your assumptions about what "everyone knows" are a little off so it's probably more polite to play safe than sorry
I was perhaps wrong about film endings 'everyone' knows. I shouldn't have said they didn't require a warning, but rather that it's a lost cause, because so many other people do spoil them, so there's little practical point in berating people who don't give a warning.
You may have derived pleasure from knowing someone was going to die in HP5, but you'd probably have found it less exciting if you knew who died, when and how.
True, and notice that I *did* recommend a spoiler warning for that. The footnote was a qualification that there could be a good reason to hear that quote, but I'd still leave it up to the hearer.