Do trailers count as spoilers on Buffistas?
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Kevin - May 14, 2008 1:20:53 pm PDT #2913 of 6786
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Jon B. - May 14, 2008 2:07:49 pm PDT #2914 of 6786
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
If they've been aired on the TV, then they're not spoilers. If they've only been aired on the Internets then they are.
Kevin - May 14, 2008 2:21:06 pm PDT #2915 of 6786
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Okay, cheers.
Polter-Cow - May 14, 2008 2:28:41 pm PDT #2916 of 6786
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
If they've only been aired on the Internets then they are.
Really? Even if you provide a link to the trailer so everyone can watch? We talk about movie trailers all the time without whitefont.
Vortex - May 14, 2008 3:19:29 pm PDT #2917 of 6786
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Really? Even if you provide a link to the trailer so everyone can watch? We talk about movie trailers all the time without whitefont.
Yes. The point of not having spoilers is that some people don't WANT to know, so linking to the trailer doesn't solve the issue. Plus, movie trailers are aired on TV.
§ ita § - May 14, 2008 4:26:55 pm PDT #2918 of 6786
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think we've explicitly had a trailer/spoiler rule for movies. It's fallen into whitefonting, because there's no simple place to have seen it--I know where my Buffy trailer is going to come from, but not as much about The Dark Knight Returns.
Jon B. - May 14, 2008 4:44:39 pm PDT #2919 of 6786
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Yeah, I was thinking of TV shows. I agree that there hasn't been a clear rule about movies.
Nutty - May 14, 2008 5:12:51 pm PDT #2920 of 6786
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Luckily, most of the time, any trailer that spoils the whole movie is for a movie that sucks donkey balls, so it's not much of an issue.
TV trailers, OTOH, well let's just say that some networks are really, really dumb.
Frankenbuddha - May 14, 2008 6:26:14 pm PDT #2921 of 6786
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
TV trailers, OTOH, well let's just say that some networks are really, really dumb.
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Jesse - May 15, 2008 10:31:38 am PDT #2922 of 6786
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Going back to an earlier part of the conversation, I'd like to formally propose eliminating "no preference" as a voting option and also revisit the minimum number of votes needed for a vote to count. I'm not going to propose a specific number at this point, because I could be persuaded that just getting rid of no preference serves the purpose, and I'm not sure what the right number would be anyway.
I did a quick scan of the past 10 votes (which appears to be all of them since April 2007) and the average number of votes cast was 72.5, max of 93 and min of 49.
This is interesting.