On 6/2/07, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
It's not wilful ignorance on my part. The spoiler tags are demeaning and insulting,
No they're not. Well, at least I feel neither demeaned nor insulted.
they're eyesores,
So make them prettier.
they make us look like some poxy fan site,
All that separates us from a poxy fan site is a spoiler warning? We have issues.
and if used as you suggest they impost artificial constraints on the article body and make it impossible to write a proper article lead.
Why would details of the plot and especially its ending, be found in the lead? The lead usually just covers the fact that it's a successful film and is the 3rd in the trilogy or whatever. I could accept that for *some* articles it's hard to write a lead without giving away the spoiler. But I don't accept that that is often, let alone always the case.
If there are *any* advantages to have these, it seems to be that they coddle people who are stupid to tell the difference between a DVD box cover and an encyclopedia article.
I see. Spoiler warnings are insulting and demeaning. But your attitude isn't.
Steve