[WikiEN-l] Spoiler Boilerplates

Mon Jun 26 21:11:40 UTC 2006

On 6/25/06, Garion1000 <garion1000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/25/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have to admit to a sense of irony that we warn users of excessively
> > technical language, and we warn them if the title of the page isn't
> > quite right. We even warn them that the article uses unicode
> > characters. But we refuse to warn them that they may witness seriously
> > obscene material or have their enjoyment of a work of fiction totally
> > spoilt.
>
>
> It makes sense to me. When an article is bad (or not complete enough, too
> technical, whatever), a reader should be warned. But when a reader looks up
> something 'obscene', he shouldn't be surprised to see something 'obscene',
> or when a reader looks up a movie, he shouldn't  be surprised to find a plot
> summary there. To me a warning in those cases seems unnecessary.

When I look up a movie, I'm usually looking for something other than
the plot, and in that case, I expect any spoiler sections to be noted
-- odds are, I haven't seen the movie yet, and I don't want the ending
to be spoiled.

-- 
Mark
[[User:Carnildo]]