but I will add that the previous spoiler lite policy was, imho, bad for discussion.
This is very inaccurate.
I'm sorry Wolfram. You must have meant to say "I disagree," not "This is very inaccurate." I simply expressed my own opinion, and I think I have a clearer sense of what that is than you do.
Selfishly I'd vote for that, but just because there'd be a hardcore whitefont spoiler thread left over, and not because I thought it would serve the community better.
(Plei is me. The Blob, I'm not gonna claim.)
I'm in the Plei/Amych/Blob corner of Please If We're Going To Have A Spoiler Thread Make It A Spoiler Thread And That Means No Whitefont.
Whitefont and hardcore spoiling are not mix-y things.
You can't relax with whitefont.
So, if we were going to make everyone happy (except the anti-proliferationistas), we'd have one spoiler thread just like it is, one without any white font, and one thread with casting, etc. that is or is not white-fonted?
You can't relax with whitefont.
You
can't relax with whitefont.
Cindy,
Thread 1) No white font, hardcore spoilage. Open discussion, like we used to have in the Buffy & Angel Spoiler thread.
Thread 2) All white font, all white font labeled as to both show, and type of content.
Ran afoul of the duplicate entry problem. There would be depth spoiler in one thread that weren't the other, so I would end up imperfectly spoiled.
I think it's safe to say that the generalized 'you', as in, the very vocal and active members of the former spoiler community, are not especially comfortable with whitefont, as most of us have weighed in and said just that.
(I'm actually literally physically uncomfortable with whitefont, but that's a wrist-related thing, and very much me-specific.)