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

The Cunctator cunctator at gmail.com
Tue May 22 02:05:07 UTC 2007


On 5/21/07, John Lee <johnleemk at gmail.com> wrote:

> The problem, as I and others have raised, is that defining a spoiler is
> extremely difficult to do without violating [[WP:NOR]]. How do we know what
> a spoiler is? You may just know it, but your subjective judgment will
> obviously differ from others, and without a source we can turn to, there's
> no way we can agree on what a spoiler is.

Oh, come on. That argument assumes we're mostly mindless idiots, or
that we don't share any common language or culture. In most cases it's
obvious whether something is a spoiler or not.

Part of "Assume Good Faith" is to assume your fellow editors are humans.



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