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.
Hey, don't worry about it. Nest full of vampires, you come get me, okay. Box full of puppies, that's more of a judgement call.
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Topic!Cindy - Jul 18, 2007 3:51:41 pm PDT #82 of 6785
What is even happening?
le nubian - Jul 18, 2007 3:59:42 pm PDT #83 of 6785
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
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)
§ ita § - Jul 18, 2007 4:02:54 pm PDT #84 of 6785
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Jon B. - Jul 18, 2007 4:03:55 pm PDT #85 of 6785
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
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.
le nubian - Jul 18, 2007 4:08:50 pm PDT #86 of 6785
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
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.
Steph L. - Jul 18, 2007 4:11:15 pm PDT #87 of 6785
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
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.
bon bon - Jul 18, 2007 4:11:31 pm PDT #88 of 6785
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Understood, but technically that could be true for literally every conversation we have here.
What do you mean?
DebetEsse - Jul 18, 2007 4:14:20 pm PDT #89 of 6785
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I'm a bit worried about spoilers in Literary. It seems unfair to Bullshit a consensus on the issue, but, yeah, I'm one of the invested people. If the answer is just that I need to stay away until I've read, I can accept that, but I feel a little fuzzy as to what is and is not okay in there.
eta: I mean this largely in the "commentary around wf gives things away" sense.
le nubian - Jul 18, 2007 4:14:42 pm PDT #90 of 6785
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
What do you mean?
There are plenty of places on the net to have all kinds of conversations. Obviously people can discuss spoilers elsewhere. That's all I meant.
amych - Jul 18, 2007 4:15:35 pm PDT #91 of 6785
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I feel badly for the people who might want to discuss such things and have nowhere to do it.
If we'd said, oh, a month ago, "hey, I'll bet some crazy person is going to post photos of every page of HP and a massive kerfuffle will erupt about whether they're real or not; we can fit that into the spoilers thread, no?" I would've been all for discussing it with enough time for spoiler folk to weigh in, warning notices/jump links posted, etc. etc. etc.". At this point, I just have to say "what Jon said".
(Note: don't care one way or t'other about HP, but messing with spoiler policies on no notice is way bigger than what's covered in the previous consensus.) (And hey, nothing wrong with linking people to discussions elsewhere, as long as the links are marked as spoilery.)