On 6/25/06, Garion1000 garion1000@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/25/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
I have to admit to a sense of irony that we warn users of excessively technical language, and we warn them if the title of the page isn't quite right. We even warn them that the article uses unicode characters. But we refuse to warn them that they may witness seriously obscene material or have their enjoyment of a work of fiction totally spoilt.
It makes sense to me. When an article is bad (or not complete enough, too technical, whatever), a reader should be warned. But when a reader looks up something 'obscene', he shouldn't be surprised to see something 'obscene', or when a reader looks up a movie, he shouldn't be surprised to find a plot summary there. To me a warning in those cases seems unnecessary.
When I look up a movie, I'm usually looking for something other than the plot, and in that case, I expect any spoiler sections to be noted -- odds are, I haven't seen the movie yet, and I don't want the ending to be spoiled.