For goodness sake, WHY?
"Whitefonted for possible casting spoiler" is not exactly "Work makes you free"
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Trudy Booth - Jul 25, 2003 4:33:54 pm PDT #2099 of 10289
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
P.M. Marc - Jul 25, 2003 4:38:31 pm PDT #2100 of 10289
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Because it's NOT a fucking spoiler.
Warn if the link has casting spoilers, sure, but reporting that someone is in a TV movie with the guy from a particularily repulsive reality show is NOT a spoiler and does NOT need to be white fonted. Nor should it be.
Know what? AH did three American Pie movies while she was on BtVS. She even manged to go guest on AtS during the last one. Guess what? VK's doing a movie, JM's doing a movie, SR's doing a movie. All the cool kids are doing movies these days. Doesn't mean shit as to them being on the shows or not being on the shows.
amych - Jul 25, 2003 4:43:27 pm PDT #2101 of 10289
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Work makes you free
I'd just like to say that playing the Nazi card in this context is both repellent to me personally and, more broadly, rhetorical dirty pool. Nobody's accused you of fascism. To imply that they have can only be an attempt to divert the discussion into even more emotional territory.
Trudy Booth - Jul 25, 2003 5:03:50 pm PDT #2102 of 10289
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Because it's NOT a fucking spoiler.
Right, it's a POSSIBLE spoiler, hence the curtosey of asking someone to put a freakin "s" and a freaking "return". Two key strokes! Ooooh! I'm a wretch! Two lousy key strokes gives both of us what we want-- you can discuss it and I can ignore it.
Hey, Im saying that I am not a Nazi for requesting that people respect the way I watch the show. I'm tired of being told (albeit indirectly) how I'm oblivious and ignorant and oversensitive... EVERYONE who doesn't live under a rock and hide from normal conversation, after all, knows X, Y, and Z -- and I understand comments about the spoiler phobes get even nastier in spoilers.
thessaly - Jul 25, 2003 5:08:51 pm PDT #2103 of 10289
"...and that calls for some hard-hitting, potentially violent SCIENCE!"
Right, it's a POSSIBLE spoiler, hence the curtosey of asking someone to put a freakin "s" and a freaking "return".
Staying way the heck out of the flamage, but I find it hard to read a thread when every other sentence is whitefonted, thus my complete skimming of Spoilers Light.
I'm all for letting the vote decide after hearing viewpoints, I just wanted to bring up the legibility issue as part of the debate. Bugging off now until people are calmer.
Gandalfe - Jul 25, 2003 5:10:42 pm PDT #2104 of 10289
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
Staying way the heck out of the flamage, but I find it hard to read a thread when every other sentence is whitefonted, thus my complete skimming of Spoilers Light.
Would you like a beer, thessaly? You know, just since I'm right there with ya.
Lyra Jane - Jul 25, 2003 5:14:03 pm PDT #2105 of 10289
Up with the sun
Staying way the heck out of the flamage, but I find it hard to read a thread when every other sentence is whitefonted, thus my complete skimming of Spoilers Light.
I'll be at the bar with thessaly and Gandalfe.
thessaly - Jul 25, 2003 5:16:24 pm PDT #2106 of 10289
"...and that calls for some hard-hitting, potentially violent SCIENCE!"
Would you like a beer, thessaly? You know, just since I'm right there with ya.
Foamy!
ION, as a very abstract idea that wouldn't happen anytime soon because it involves coding that would be behind everything else, how hard would it be to have a spoiler tag that interacts with a user setting to be visible/blinvisible? Then the Hos could view with impunity and the Virgins could not view with impunity.
Again: please do not let the coders hurt me. I know this won't happen in this round of debates, just an idea for a future feature that might be nice.
Lyra Jane - Jul 25, 2003 5:18:30 pm PDT #2107 of 10289
Up with the sun
how hard would it be to have a spoiler tag that interacts with a user setting to be visible/blinvisible? Then the Hos could view with impunity and the Virgins could not view with impunity.
opposing this as an abstract idea. I would prolly turn off whitefont if that were an option, but I'd rather not have to read the movies thread with my eyes shut.
If there were a thread-by-thread whitefont option, that would be pretty cool.
Edit: does this mean no beer?
amych - Jul 25, 2003 5:24:55 pm PDT #2108 of 10289
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
how hard would it be to have a spoiler tag that interacts with a user setting
thessaly, I don't know all the details of how this particular board is coded, but in a perfect world, that kind of reader-sensitive tag shouldn't be that much worse to code than a MARCIE (which also says "ita wants to see X, but Plei doesn't", in effect.)
The problem I see with it is that you'd be entirely dependent on writers tagging their posts properly -- so you'd be compounding the usual "does this belong in the spoiler thread?" dilemma with newbies not reading the quick-edit instructions, people not closing tags properly, different levels of sensitivity, and so on.