On Wed, 23 May 2007, Thomas Dalton wrote:
Are you sure there isn't consensus to remove spoiler tags from plot summaries? I haven't seen many people saying it's a bad idea.
It's a bad idea. 1) Not everything in a plot summary is a spoiler, so a spoiler warning does actually give information. Or the spoiler may be in the summary, but only near the end. (We probably should reword the spoiler warning to not imply that all plot elements are spoilers, of course). 2) Even if all plot summaries are spoilers, consistency in user interface demands we include the tags, rather than excluding them from certain kinds of sections just because the user can figure it out anyway.