Seriously, what happens in MCU can be radically different from the comics, especially with characters that have been in print for 40 years or more: origin stories change, plot points differ by 180 degrees, it's more like hearing about an AU of what's occurring on screen. I'm more or less current with the main Marvel comics right now and I find them so confusing, anyway, with the way they keep rebooting and pulling in older story lines to regurgitate them that it makes no difference if I know the comics or not. I treat the TV/movie versions as just one more take on where they started from in the Marvel universe.

I am thinking that we are all good people with discretion we trust each other-- we don't have a lot of newcomers-- perhaps the comics policy should be that people discussing comics should use their discretion to not spoil people who do not read the comics? Which is sort of what we do anyway?

This.

I plan on infrequenting the MCU thread and don't really keep up on the comics, but I'm not worried that something terribly spoilery will come out from them. The MCU liberally changes comic canon anyway, so there's always a decent chance that they'll pivot and go a different direction on anything that comes up.

(I'm certainly hoping so, in re: Civil War)

I could imagine someone wanting to stay unspoiled for Bucky. I'm not sure how you do that on the Internets, but I can't really think of another similar-HSQ canonical thing.

And the thing is, I (as a non-reader of comics) got spoiled for Bucky by someone making a very oblique comment - something to the effect of "Since I read all the comics, I won't be watching for the reveal of the identity of the Winter Soldier, I'll be watching for the reveal of Cap's reaction." My brain said, Oh OK, Winter Soldier must be Bucky in the comics. No one else would rate a major reaction, not even Red Skull undead.

But I didn't resent the spoiling, because I did figure there was that chance of something being re-imagined out of comic-canon by the studio and because generally speaking I don't mind getting a briefing from readers of comics on various aspects of what can be going on with the story. So I guess my point is, that I am content to continue trusting to the discretion of readers.

I still have a little trouble with Daredevil being blackfonted.

With the limited scope of Netflix, the vast majority of people will have had opportunity to see everything but Daredevil unless, and/or until, it shows up elsewhere.

It is a unique situation, Marvel having such a large CU, but having one program being in such a position.

That having been said, Since I was barely in the board at the time of the Lightbulb discussions, I imagine it was hashed and rehashed.

At least in my case I'm probably going to skip over as best I can until I see the shows...or break down and get Netflix...

With the limited scope of Netflix, the vast majority of people will have had opportunity to see everything but Daredevil unless, and/or until, it shows up elsewhere.

Yeah, but you could say the same thing with the movie thread in general, or the Boxed Set thread in general (I'm always behind on iZombie, so if I want to post about Flash or Arrow, I'm likely to get spoiled for iZombie, but I know that going in and I make my decision accordingly).

My point is that the MCU thread, like Boxed Set, covers so many different properties that, going in, people just need to know the ground rules and decide accordingly whether they want to post.

If Daredevil is part of the MCU thread I won't be able to participate for a while, which would make me sad for the end of the SHIELD season.

No one's been talking about Daredevil for a while, so you'd likely be safe for the finale.

All the Marvel streaming shows are going to be part of the MCU thread. But the SHIELD finale is this week, and the MCU thread hasn't even been created yet, so you're probably safe.