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

[Ray Saintonge]

Anthony wrote:

>On 5/23/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On 5/20/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>Surely one would expect ==Plot summary== to contain plot elements in
>>>an encyclopedic manner.
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>>Plot elements != spoiler. This discussion is meaningless if those two
>>concepts are considered equivalent.
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>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.
>
That's what happens with templastes.  It's like putting AK-47s in the 
hands of kids who don't know how to use them.

>Maybe an interim solution is to have different spoiler templates for
>different situations.  We could first take the time to disambig the use of
>template:spoiler into the different types of situations, and *then* have a
>policy discussion over each one.  I'd be willing to help disambiguate the
>tags.
>
I think that that suggestion would only make matters worse.  At least 
now if you want to monitor this kind of activity there is only a small 
number of templates to trace.  The net effect of your suggestion is a 
bit like building separate madhouses to segregate the different kinds of 
madness.

Ec