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

Ken Arromdee arromdee at rahul.net
Wed May 23 15:10:22 UTC 2007


On Wed, 23 May 2007, Anthony wrote:
> As long as {{spoiler}} continues to read "Spoiler warning: Plot or ending
> details follow.", people are going to continue to use the tag any time plot
> or ending details follow.  In fact, my anecdotal evidence is that most of
> the {{spoiler}} tags I come across are applied wholesale to an entire plot
> section.

The solution to this is to reword the spoiler warning, not to eliminate it.
How about

"Spoiler warning: plot or ending details follow that some readers may not wish
to see".

Almost the same, but nobody is likely to put that on the Three Little Pigs.




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