On Nov 16, 2007 12:54 PM, joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
Quoting Philip Sandifer snowspinner@gmail.com:
I'm glad you asked. Among the arguments *in all sincerity* advanced by advocates of spoiler warnings:
- Returning spoiler warnings to all plot sections, because it is non-
obvious that plot sections contain spoilers
Ok, this argument is clearly bad.
I don't really agree with the argument, but I don't think it's *clearly* bad. It definitely is non-obvious that plot sections contain *spoilers*. Not all plot details are spoilers, even if the old spoiler tag suggested they were.
Personally I'd be willing to have spoiler tags if they said something like "Wikipedia contains spoilers". What I had a big problem with was a plot section which said something like "Warning: plot details follow". I understand where such a phrasing came from, though. The old "Warning: spoilers follow" was difficult to apply objectively, and as such isn't a good solution.
I wish there were more people willing to work toward a consensus rather than asserting that there is a consensus while admitting that there clearly is much disagreement.