On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, John Lee wrote:
So basically you're saying you would prefer it if you could blanket revert blanket removals? I don't see two wrongs making a right; if you ask me, individual editors should have made decisions on a case-by-case basis, regardless of whether they are adding or removing a tag.
No, I was replying to something which said basically "it's a bad idea to make massive sets of scripted changes that are hard to reverse". It was outside the context of spoiler warnings, but seemed very appropriate to them.
I was pointing out the irony, not recommending a course of action to fix it.
And if reverting blanket removals was possible, it would have already been done, and not by me. The whole reason the blanket removals were effective is that they couldn't be easily reverted, after all.