On 20 May 2007 at 09:44:03 -0700 (PDT), Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net wrote:
Third, there's a user interface consistency argument to be made for plot summaries. I made an analogy on the discussion page: If you look at a calendar, it has columns for Monday and Tuesday. But everyone knows that Tuesday comes after Monday. If you only want to avoid redundancy, you should remove the Tuesday.
Or at least provide a spoiler warning for those who haven't yet learned that Tuesday follows Monday, and don't want their textbook on the calendar system, which they haven't read far enough into yet to discover this fact, to be spoiled.
On Sun, 20 May 2007, Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
Third, there's a user interface consistency argument to be made for plot summaries. I made an analogy on the discussion page: If you look at a calendar, it has columns for Monday and Tuesday. But everyone knows that Tuesday comes after Monday. If you only want to avoid redundancy, you should remove the Tuesday.
Or at least provide a spoiler warning for those who haven't yet learned that Tuesday follows Monday, and don't want their textbook on the calendar system, which they haven't read far enough into yet to discover this fact, to be spoiled.
You're straining the analogy. I'm comparing two things, both of which "everyone knows" but we should leave in anyway. Everyone knows that Tuesday follows Monday, and everyone knows that plot sections contain spoilers.
You're trying to compare something which everyone knows to something which everyone *doesn't* know.