Comment policy: Spoilers

[andrewducker]

Because it's come up several times in the past, and I want people to be able to feel they can read the comments without bumping into things that they don't want to, I figured that an actual policy would be useful. Particularly with Dr Who being back

Comments

[drdoug]

Policy noted, and I shall do my best to observe it.

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[andrewducker]

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[drdoug]

Hey, dude, no posting my passphrase, even rot-13ed!

Unless you're pulling a hunter2 on me.

[andrewducker]

Hah! I love that!

I remember spending ages going through bash.org. Not for a long time though. Must waste an afternoon at some point in the future...

[agoodwinsmith]

But we likes to have arguments, precious. We likes to stand over our vanquished foe and laugh in a fruity baritone, yes we do.

(Spelling R Not Us, by the way.)

[momentsmusicaux]

So hang on -- no referring to any revelation in ANY work of fiction, EVER? Who Darth Vader is? What happens to Lizzie and Darcy? Whether Ulysses gets home?

[andrewducker]

Yes.

Because _I_ have no idea what happens to Lizzie and Darcy*, and only the vaguest of ideas what happens to Ulysses.

And at some point I will probably get around to watching (or reading) Pride & Prejudice, and I would rather discover the plot in the order the author meant me to.

But feel free to talk about it, as much as you like. So long as you obfuscate it.

*Ok, I assume they get together. But I don't actually know.

[momentsmusicaux]

That seems rather draconian to me. I mean, how can you prevent people in real life from revealing whether Ulysses gets home? I suppose if it's people you're talking to at a party or in the pub, you could stop them in time. What if it's strangers sitting behind you on the bus? What if it's a conversation between characters in a film?

I think surprising revelations expire at some point. Take The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, for example. That was hugely surprising when it was published. The first time I even read about it was in something that revealed the identity of the murderer. Things are surprising and new for a while, and then they seep into general culture.

[andrewducker]

"how can you prevent people in real life from revealing whether Ulysses gets home?"

I can't. This spoiler policy doesn't affect people down the pub.

This spoiler policy affects _comments on my journal_.

[fiddlingfrog]

Would you accept the LJ spoiler tag for obfuscating spoilers?

[andrewducker]

Absolutely! I completely forgot about it! Will go update the post now! Thanks! Exclamation Mark!

[soon_lee]

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[andrewducker]

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