Michel Vuijlsteke wrote:
On 31 August 2010 16:51, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
How do you objectively and neutrally determine what is and isn't a spoiler?
You don't. Just like you can't objectively and neutrally determine if someone is fit to be an administrator, or if a picture is really "beautiful, stunning, impressive, or informative" enough to be featured.
It's a call you make. You do something you believe will get a consensus. Most of the time there won't be much discussion: "Crowe was dead himself the whole time" and "Tyler Durden is the narrator's alter ego" probably could have a spoiler warning; "The Titanic sinks" and "Jesus dies on the cross but not really" probably don't need one. If you do get discussion, there's oodles of mechanisms to resolve things.
A likely edge case would be "'Rosebud' is the name of the childhood sled of Kane."
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen