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.
Whatever happened to the still beating heart of a virgin? No one has any standards anymore.
Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Bureaucracy 4: Like Job. No, really, just like Job
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§ ita § - May 14, 2008 4:26:55 pm PDT #2918 of 6786
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Two words: Monkey. Crack.
Jesse - May 15, 2008 10:31:38 am PDT #2922 of 6786
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.
Jessica - May 15, 2008 10:35:40 am PDT #2923 of 6786
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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'll second that.
Amy - May 15, 2008 10:36:27 am PDT #2924 of 6786
Because books.
I'll third.
Frankenbuddha - May 15, 2008 10:37:12 am PDT #2925 of 6786
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I'll fourth.
Jesse - May 15, 2008 10:38:05 am PDT #2926 of 6786
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Woo hoo! Lightbulbs, please.
Wolfram - May 15, 2008 10:38:53 am PDT #2927 of 6786
Visilurking
As a point of irony, any vote on eliminating the no preference option would still have to have the no preference option.