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

[Ray Saintonge]

Tony Sidaway wrote:

>On 6/2/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>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.
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>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.
>
I suppose we should avoid drawing any conclusions about the intelligence 
of those who attach so much importance to such cruft. :-)

Ec