Tony Sidaway wrote:
On 6/2/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
Now, I'm not even suggesting that Wikipedia avoid mentioning these. But it's so incredibly easy to use spoiler tags judiciously. This wilful ignorance to understand is quite annoying.
It's not wilful ignorance on my part. The spoiler tags are demeaning and insulting, they're eyesores, they make us look like some poxy fan site, and if used as you suggest they impost artificial constraints on the article body and make it impossible to write a proper article lead. 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 suppose we should avoid drawing any conclusions about the intelligence of those who attach so much importance to such cruft. :-)
Ec