[WikiEN-l] Have we ever had a reader complaint of a lack of spoiler tags?

[Ray Saintonge]

Phil Sandifer wrote:

>On May 19, 2007, at 7:44 PM, Steve Summit wrote:
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>>Conjecture isn't necessarily fallacious.  We are all, most of us,
>>readers as well as editors.  The people who like spoiler warnings
>>and argue for their retention are all, presumably, people who
>>appreciate spoiler warnings in the text they read.  The set of
>>people who appreciate them (and would mourn their passing) is
>>clearly not empty.
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>I would have thought this, except everybody's arguments for spoiler  
>warnings have been remarkably phrased in terms of hypothetical  
>readers. Nobody has said "Actually, I would be surprised to find a  
>spoiler in a section on the plot" or "Actually, this spoiler in this  
>article ruined Buffy's finale for me." I do find this telling.
>
Tailors designing fashionable clothing for the emperor? ;-)

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