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<blockquote data-quote="Rune" data-source="post: 8392297" data-attributes="member: 67"><p>Pre-internet, you usually knew who you were talking to. Presumably, your friends already knew you would be good with that.</p><p></p><p>On message boards, <em>you can’t know that</em>. By casually flinging out spoilers with no warning (as you have done several times in the quoted post), you are potentially robbing someone of an experience that might otherwise change their whole way of looking at the world. <em>You</em> don’t know.</p><p></p><p>Even worse, you’re doing it in a way that involves them without their consent. Spoiler tags are the tool that provides them the opportunity for consent. Or to simply walk away none the worse.</p><p></p><p>It isn't always about the plot. Sometimes the emotional weight of the build-up towards the moment is necessary to actually land it. But if you know the moment ahead of time, it’s emotionally meaningless, so that by the time you get there all you have is “Yep. Now I know how we got there.”</p><p></p><p>Well, you can’t help <em>now</em>!</p><p></p><p>But you <em>could have</em> helped by tucking that away in spoiler tags before you put it in front of readers’ faces (most of whom, I presume are people you don’t know <em>anything</em> about) without so much as a warning that you were going to do so!</p><p></p><p>It would have been <em>easy</em> to help. The boards give us that tool.</p><p></p><p><em>None</em> of that discussion is hindered if it is tucked behind spoiler tags. The only difference is, you've given people the ability to opt out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rune, post: 8392297, member: 67"] Pre-internet, you usually knew who you were talking to. Presumably, your friends already knew you would be good with that. On message boards, [I]you can’t know that[/I]. By casually flinging out spoilers with no warning (as you have done several times in the quoted post), you are potentially robbing someone of an experience that might otherwise change their whole way of looking at the world. [I]You[/I] don’t know. Even worse, you’re doing it in a way that involves them without their consent. Spoiler tags are the tool that provides them the opportunity for consent. Or to simply walk away none the worse. It isn't always about the plot. Sometimes the emotional weight of the build-up towards the moment is necessary to actually land it. But if you know the moment ahead of time, it’s emotionally meaningless, so that by the time you get there all you have is “Yep. Now I know how we got there.” Well, you can’t help [I]now[/I]! But you [I]could have[/I] helped by tucking that away in spoiler tags before you put it in front of readers’ faces (most of whom, I presume are people you don’t know [I]anything[/I] about) without so much as a warning that you were going to do so! It would have been [I]easy[/I] to help. The boards give us that tool. [I]None[/I] of that discussion is hindered if it is tucked behind spoiler tags. The only difference is, you've given people the ability to opt out. [/QUOTE]
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