I think there's a need, and opening a spoily thread now fills that need. I don't think anybody will want to go full monty in Literary, because we are respectful hedgehogs, but that doesn't mean people don't want to go full monty.

(The first realio trulio spoiler-talk location I've seen was put up midday yesterday, and it appears to have quite a few discussers. Who have moved past the "rocks fall! Everybody dies!" jokey stage of spoilydom. The same could easily happen here, no?)

we are respectful hedgehogs

I love this clause and want to marry it.

I've seen people reacting to the spoilers, which is nearly as bad, and then I have to try to run away and close my eyes at the same time.

I've seen people reacting to the spoilers, which is nearly as bad, and then I have to try to run away and close my eyes at the same time.

Yes! This. (and the running blind thing is very dangerous!)

So you're saying that BBC should be opened as a balls-out spoiler thread right now and will become the de facto HP thread once the book comes out and spoilers become reality? I'm just asking because as a spoilerphobe, I want to know not to go in at all before I've read the book, even to express excitement and/or anticipation or something.

I think that's right. Until Friday, I think Literary can be used for anticipation posts.

I think BBC needs to be open now for the full monty.

If the book club thread opens now with spoilers allowed that has to me megaMEGAmega noted. And I still think the risk of accidental spoilage is too high.

If the book club thread opens now with spoilers allowed that has to me megaMEGAmega noted.

Absolutely. I'm afraid of someone hearing that we'll be discussing HP7 in BBC, seeing it's already open, jumping in, and finding out that Hogwarts gets nuked from space.

If the book club thread opens now with spoilers allowed that has to me megaMEGAmega noted. And I still think the risk of accidental spoilage is too high.

Yeppers. I mean, I didn't realize we were talking about opening the book club thread early with the intent of allowing spoilers until just now; who else might not be aware of the full context?

I guess, most of the people I've seen who know "spoilers" have actually read excerpts from the book. Which is -- not spoilers? I mean, they just read the book early. (Most of them, apparently, via meticulously photographed and posted pages.)

If the thread's to open for HP discussion, I agree it should go straight to HP discussion. I just -- thought that HP discussion has, in effect, already started.

(I should admit I don't have a dog in this hunt, so, if other people feel strongly about waiting till Friday, I don't mind.)