On Sun, 20 May 2007, Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
Third,
there's a user interface consistency argument to be made for plot
summaries. I made an analogy on the discussion page: If you look at a
calendar, it has columns for Monday and Tuesday. But everyone knows that
Tuesday comes after Monday. If you only want to avoid redundancy, you should
remove the Tuesday.
Or at least provide a spoiler warning for those who
haven't yet
learned that Tuesday follows Monday, and don't want their textbook on
the calendar system, which they haven't read far enough into yet to
discover this fact, to be spoiled.
You're straining the analogy. I'm comparing two things, both of which
"everyone knows" but we should leave in anyway. Everyone knows that Tuesday
follows Monday, and everyone knows that plot sections contain spoilers.
You're trying to compare something which everyone knows to something which
everyone *doesn't* know.