[WikiEN-l] Actual data on spoiler warning uses by the public

[joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu]

Quoting John Lee <johnleemk at gmail.com>:

> On Dec 15, 2007 8:18 PM, Peter Ansell <ansell.peter at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Is there anyway to avoid having always visible spoiler warnings, while
>> allowing users who care about such things to either set a preference
>> to collapse spoiler sections or to be able to set a user.css or
>> user.js function to hide those sections?
>>
>> There does seem to be a few compromise positions available.
>
> Yes, there is. I was one of the few (perhaps the only one) advocating
> them at the time of the debate on spoiler warnings. For some reason
> it's a compromise palatable to neither side. I guess that's why they
> call it a compromise.

Well, I have no objection to some form of compromise (I consider the entire
debate to be pretty silly itself) but why not do something like this?