[WikiEN-l] Fair use redux; the second coming of hell; Are we a free content or aren't we?

Todd Allen toddmallen at gmail.com
Mon Jul 23 15:38:24 UTC 2007


Ken Arromdee wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, David Gerard wrote:
>   
>> Yes, that's what Matthew just pointed out. You seem to have missed the
>> point he was making, which is that this is tedious and doesn't make
>> anyone care any more than they do.
>>     
>
> You seem to have missed *my* point, which is that I've explained it time
> and time again and some people Just Don't Get It.  How clueless do you have
> to be to still think that spoiler warnings on plot sections should be removed
> because they are redundant?  Not only have I explained what's wrong with the
> idea, the explanation is straightforward enough that nobody really disputes
> it (well, maybe the user interface idea).  *Nobody* says "I disagree, in
> fact, every plot element *is* a spoiler" or "I disagree, I don't think that
> a warning in the middle of the section gives the reader more specific
> information about the location of the spoiler".  Disputing those would be
> silly.
>
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http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Nobody_cares

Wasn't this particular thread supposed to be about fair use? Why are we
discussing spoiler tags?

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