Zero wrote:
how are we as editors to know this..? As I do recall
in a previous
encounter concerning a lad I went to school with, he and I posessed
very different views on what a "spoiler" was.
As neutral editors, we also have a differing capacity on content is a
plot twist or what is considered the climax. It is only reasonable to
conclude this is what happens. This template simply smacks of what
intrepretation is left to the editor.
But all sorts of interpretation is left to editors -- what facts
to present, how best to present them, in which order, etc.
I'm sorry you don't like the spoiler templates. But the simple
fact is that most people *do*. We had a poll on this a little
while back and the results were something like 7:1 in favor of
keeping them. Many, many editors expressed the very strong
opinion that spoiler warnings are "obviously" a good thing.
I say this not to suggest that you're wrong for having a contrary
opinion (which is of course your and everyone's right) but to
make the point that to most people it's reasonably obvious where
a spoiler template ought to go, and what sorts of thing
constitute spoilers worthy of protection.
(Now, to be sure, I don't know if the people in that poll were
voting as editors or as readers. On the one hand we don't have
any way of polling our readers per se, but on the other hand,
since we're the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, *every*
reader is an editor, and vice versa.)
Since there's a small but vocal minority which is very strongly
opposed to the spoiler tags, clearly what we need is some custom
CSS magic which will turn them off for readers who think they're
ugly or unprofessional-looking or who otherwise don't want to see
them.