Quoting Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org>rg>:
On Nov 19, 2007 5:40 PM, Steve Summit
<scs(a)eskimo.com> wrote:
But we've never heard (that I know of) a
complaint
from an end reader saying that the warnings were objectionable,
I'm an "end reader", and I've complained about the spoiler tags
before.
I have in the past edited Wikipedia, but that doesn't make me not a
reader.
As long as we're playing the anecdote game I've heard complaints from at
least
two non-Wikipedian friends about the lack of spoiler warnings. As one put
it
"Where'd all the spoiler warnings go?" However, I'm not sure they
would
have
had this attitude but for the fact that there was what amounts to a
change;
that it, they expected to see spoiler tags and be able to use that
advantage
because they had seen them before and were not used to now lack of
them. I have
no idea how common this is.
I personally have not heard anyone outside Wikipedia complain about the
removal, FWIW. I personally supported the removal, but not necessarily its
implementation on such a wide and automated scale.
I also still don't understand the objections to marking up potentially
spoiler-ish content semantically to allow those who fear spoilers not to see
them.
Johnleemk