[WikiEN-l] Reflections on the end of the spoiler wars

[Ken Arromdee]

On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, David Gerard wrote:
> Indeed. If people really wanted spoiler warnings, they'd be back.

Does the word "logistics" mean anything to you?

It's easy to find spoiler warnings to remove them: search for the template.
It's even easier when you can partly automate the task.

It's difficult to add a spoiler warning back.  There's nothing you can
search for, and the users who want to add them back have no access to tools
that would make this easier.

It's so much easier to remove spoiler warnings than add them that that alone
would probably keep them from coming back even without the threat of
punishment for edit warring.