On Nov 14, 2007 8:14 PM, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
I, for one, disagree that spoiler tags are a dumb thing. And I have admin bit, and I could crank up a good argument over it here and elsewhere. I decided it wasn't important enough to fight over, even though I believe the arguments behind removing them are somewhere between specious and bogus.
Well, if everyone felt that way, I'd call that a consensus. You don't have to agree to consent, you just have to decide that it isn't important enough to fight over.
But apparently there are a number of users who disagree with the majority and think it *is* important enough to fight over.
If you intend to assert that nobody with influence and power supports the existence of spoiler tags, I disagree politely.
Just to be clear, I wasn't suggesting that. On the contrary, actually. While I personally hate spoiler tags (I even argued for their removal approximately one year before Phil sent that email six months ago), I understand that there are lots of reasonable people who disagree with me.
I'd love it if someone would just come out and make a decision. I'm going to use the traffic light analogy again. I don't care if Red means Stop and Green means Go or if Red means Go and Green means Stop - I just care that one is picked and used consistently.
(Maybe a better analogy would involve a reference to [[Lilliput and Blefuscu]].)