Spoiler Tags!

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So, there was a hubub in journals about spoiler tags.

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And it got me thinking, jeez...

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I wonder what everyone else thinks of this nifty feature!

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Oh gawd, why, I wonder when people think they should be used!

Okay, really.:

Taking a page from something someone said sometime, I'm bringing a topic out of the journals into the forums. These spoiler tags are pretty nifty, but when should they be used? What's the time limit on a newly released book or movie (or anything) when it comes to posting important information that may spoil it for people who haven't seen/read it yet? Two weeks? Six months? Forever? Tell me GFF, what do you think?

Oh, I forgot:

Personally? Ideally, spoiler tags should be used for all plot points all the time, but that's expecting far too much. So let's say, six months for high publicity releases, and 'forever' for items that don't attract as much attention. It's a vague classification, yes, but that's because there's room for error.

That's something that'll happen, errors. The key issue is that people shouldn't be assholes about it. Spoilers aren't hard to do, they take all of five seconds, and it's a considerate way to talk about plot points without ruining them for newcomers.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Comics are unique in the sense that they're, essentially, soap operas for nerds. While spoiling an issue isn't nice by any means, it's also incredibly easy and, in my opinion, not that big of a deal. Next month there will be another issue, and if you haven't read the previous one you're in for some spoilers.

Spoiling an entire arc is different, but then again, I rarely see that done. Add to that the uncanny habit of writers completely undoing previous actions, simply ignoring them, or writing in a whole different world in which the hero resides...

Meh. The biggest events aren't even secrets so much as the way they happen are.

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