Quoting David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
On 16/12/2007, joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
I don't think any of the pro-spoiler people are arguing that we should have spoiler-free plot summaries. The argument is to give a notice when we do have spoilers.
One question: Please define "spoiler".
Yes, this is a serious problem. The most coherent definition I've heard so far is to rely on reviews in reliable sources and if they call something a spoiler or such then it is a spoiler. I haven't seen any other definition and it would be hard to make another definition that wasn't OR. Arguably OR isn't an issue since the presence of tags is more of a formatting issue than anything else. It might help if some of the pro-spoiler people would be willing to suggest general guidelines. I at least don't see any that's viable other than relying on reviewers and other reliable sources.