Anthony wrote:
There are a number of reasons to do this. One is that it helps lessen the amount of "fancruft".
First it behooves to demonstrate what's actually wrong with "fancruft" before trying to come up with arbitrary limitations intended to reduce it.
For quite a while now I've been using Wikipedia first before IMDB when I want to know whether a movie or TV show is worth watching, a synopsis is rather important in that regard.