No WF in Spoilers! For people who don't want TV spoilers, it's way risky; for many Spoilers regulars, it's not just a no-WF thread, but a no-WF refuge (and so other-than-jokey-WF is a pretty damn big violation of the thread vibe); for those who have wholeheartedly bought into the thread's "any TV spoilers" premise but may feel different about book spoilers, there's hardly time to weigh in before Saturday, and given our recent history wrt unwanted thread repurposing, I'd kinda hate to even go there.

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I'm against ANY advance spoiler talk for HP7 on the board before Friday midnight. Not that I'm psychotically invested in the franchise or anything, but the chance for inadvertently spoilage is way high in any thread and people care about the stuff A LOT. They've been waiting for this freakin' book for *years* and it's two days! Two lousy days! Even with white-fonting, there are reactions around white-fonts, etc., that often give the game away.

If we must have pre-release spoiler talk, however, I'd say use the bookclub thread and announce clearly on the press that there would be spoilery talk in there. And white-font *everything*.

Okay, now some of it might be real.

I'm just chiming in to add I would hate the HP spoiler talk in the TV spoilers thread that lives in the Film and TV folder. People would be blind-sided, and it's not what the thread is for, and as amy notes, we don't like white font in there.

I feel badly for the people who might want to discuss such things and have nowhere to do it.

I don't think any viable solution has been proposed. (shrug)

I don't think any viable solution has been proposed. (shrug)

Neither do I, but that's the magic (pain) of compromise.

Not everything can be discussable here in every format.

I feel badly for the people who might want to discuss such things and have nowhere to do it.

There's plenty of places to do it. Just not here.

We're already bending our carefully established rules to reopen the bookclub thread without a vote. We're doing it because we don't have enough time to propose, discuss and vote, and because we have been able to consense on it. The spoiler issue is more contentious and (I think) would really require a formal proposal. But since there's no time for that, the spoiler lovers are stuck this time.

There's plenty of places to do it. Just not here.

Understood, but technically that could be true for literally every conversation we have here.

I don't have a dog in this. I actually am avoiding spoilers for this. It just seems in a lot of our bureaucratic conversations recently that people are getting shut out.

the chance for inadvertently spoilage is way high in any thread and people care about the stuff A LOT. They've been waiting for this freakin' book for *years* and it's two days! Two lousy days! Even with white-fonting, there are reactions around white-fonts, etc., that often give the game away.

Seriously. I said to SA maybe 3 hours ago that until I have HP7 in my hands, about the only place I can go on the internet and NOT worry about being spoiled is b.org.

But if I accidentally hit "Read New," went to Spoilers, and got smacked with a spoiler for Harry Potter in a thread *for TV shows*, I'd be furious.

It's just 2 days.

Understood, but technically that could be true for literally every conversation we have here.

What do you mean?