On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
whether it's being banned or blocked, it's pretty much the same problem: users *cannot* put spoiler warnings back in because they could be punished for edit-warring and contradicting consensus, when at the same time the fact that nobody puts them back is used to *prove* consensus, which is a classic catch-22.
There's a god example: there was a spoiler tag in Catch-22. Despite the fact that the supposed spoiler is discussed in every independent reference to the book.
You just think that's clever because I used the idiom "catch-22", but it's a terrible example; I never read the book, don't know the ending, and would actually be helped by a spoiler warning on it.
And as for the one in The Three Little Pigs (I kid you not)...
If the whole thing was limited to removing spoiler warnings from nursery rhymes, I wouldn't complain. The typical article with a spoiler warning removed is not about a nursery rhyme, and you have to know this.