G'day Delerium,
Ray Saintonge wrote:
I've just done [[All Quiet on the Western Front]] and [[The
Birth of a
Nation]] (1915 movie). It all makes me wonder. On a site where
there
is so much concern about marketting and spam it seems completely contrary to have spoiler warnings. Spoiler warnings are a
_marketting_
tool; they want to make people curious enough to see the movie,
watch
the programme, read the book.
This seems like a pretty ridiculous supposition of bad faith. Are you seriously alleging that Wikipedia is being spammed by people who have a financial interest in promoting sales of the novel _All Quiet on the Western Front_ (published 1929), rather than by editors who in good faith think (even if wrongly) that the information is better presented with spoiler tags?
No, he's saying quite the opposite. (I'm sure Ray is quite capable of speaking for himself, but I want to see if I'm right in my understanding of what he said).
I see it as, "Our less clueful brethren busy pushing {{spoiler}} on everyone wouldn't be so enthusiastic if they saw it as merely an advertising technique rather than a necessity. We shouldn't buy into the film industry's games."
Cheers,