On 19/11/2007, joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
As long as we're playing the anecdote game I've heard complaints from at least two non-Wikipedian friends about the lack of spoiler warnings. As one put it "Where'd all the spoiler warnings go?" However, I'm not sure they would have had this attitude but for the fact that there was what amounts to a change; that it, they expected to see spoiler tags and be able to use that advantage because they had seen them before and were not used to now lack of them. I have no idea how common this is.
What swung it for me was that - amongst complaints from the reading public about each and every other detail you could think of about our content - I never once saw a complaint that we'd had a lack of spoilers. (Though enquiring about such produced one or two.) On the scale of concerns about Wikipedia content, it was not visible.
- d.