[WikiEN-l] Workable spoiler solution?

Ken Arromdee arromdee at rahul.net
Sun May 20 16:34:06 UTC 2007


On Sat, 19 May 2007, Alex Newman wrote:
> After all, they read Wikipedia for the 
> *knowledge*, not the non knowledge. If they didn't want it spoiling, they 
> would read a review site, or see the damn film (or book, song, whatever....) 
> before reading about what happens.

This is nonsense.  People don't read Wikipedia for "the knowledge", as if
the only possibilities were all knowledge or none.  They may want some
knowledge without wanting other knowledge; spoilers may fall in the second
category.




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