[WikiEN-l] So what was the outcome of the spoilerwar?

[Tony Sidaway]

On 6/2/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Now, I'm not even suggesting that Wikipedia avoid mentioning these.
> But it's so incredibly easy to use spoiler tags judiciously. This
> wilful ignorance to understand is quite annoying.

It's not wilful ignorance on my part.  The spoiler tags are demeaning
and insulting,   they're eyesores, they make us look like some poxy
fan site, and if used as you suggest they impost artificial
constraints on the article body and make it impossible to write a
proper article lead.  If there are *any* advantages to have these, it
seems to be that they coddle people who are stupid to tell the
difference between a DVD box cover and an encyclopedia article.