'Heart Of Gold'
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Spoilers are very easy to find these days. There are entire sites devoted to them.
Now that plot points are allowed in Lite, the only differences are, again, white fonting and separate topics.
{edit} OK, wanda and wildfeed discussion. Got it. It's a hair of a difference, though.
Jessica, that's kinda subjective. "So easy to find"? The only place I have to work at not seeing spoilers is here. Perhaps "widely and officially disseminated" is more accurate.
As is, as I assume was intended, the "frustrating not to talk about them on the main thread", since I've never had that problem, and I know I'm not alone.
It's such a huge grey area -- which is why I stepped out of the thread.
I think "Lite" is a misnomer. It's really "spoilers that are so easy to find it's frustrating not to talk about them on the main thread."
That was my understanding when we started the thread, and it was the reason that I originally (on WX) asked to have the distinction be made according to the source of the spoiler -- TV guide as opposed to Wildfeed summaries, for example -- rather than by content. It's a point that immediately got lost, and now I really wish I'd insisted on hashing it out better instead of just going along.
That said, whatever we decide, I think Lite should remain a place where people whitefont and try to give warnings. It isn't the post-anything zone that the main spoiler thread is, and was never meant to be.
Perhaps "widely and officially disseminated" is more accurate.
Absolutely.
What's the difference between Wanda and TVGuide?
That's a serious question.
That's probably only something a totally spoiled person could answer.
What's the difference between Wanda and TVGuide?
She hunts for spoilers. She's all about giving out spoilers.
TV Guide tends to, with some annoying exceptions, be more vague about things, and can be hard to avoid it you're looking up times/is it an new episode/etc.
My gut feeling is that Wanda publishes spoilers and TVGuide publishes summaries. Since I don't read Wanda, I have no idea how widely their content differs.
I guess my question is, if the Official Word is Wanda=not OK, TVGuide=OK, how do you know where other things fall. If I saw it on E! is it OK? If I read it online at the Washington Post website?
I just don't know how to make it clear for new people, and I think that's what the policy/blurb need to be.
"When in doubt, white it out" was the policy at WX.