What we dread the most besides our object of fangirlism dying in the book: Spoilers!

[author_by_night]

(Yet another HP related post. I'm sorry, non-Harry Potter guys; I love you. I promise when Jean Auel actually finishes her next book, or when there's a new Heroes episode... but for now, I have HP on the noggin.)

That said...

On Sugar Quill, there is a thread I feel is rather brilliant on avoiding spoilers and spoiling people. However, being the

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[valerie_valerah]

Hmm, that seems like a pretty complete list to me.

"Ida Spoyler" and "Lemi Finich" made me el oh el. Siriusly :P

[julibeth]

Very nice meta, hon! and you made great points here. When dealing with spoilers, you really can't assume anything.

[author_by_night]

Yikes. Yeah, that must be rough...

What are you the mod of, out of curiosity? Was not aware you were one.

[dudley_doright]

your icon makes me happy =)

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[gmth]

Here's another one for your list: Don't assume that if you say you want to remain unspoiled, people will respect that. Before the launch of HBP I had posted something about not wanting to be spoiled, and someone on my f-list posted a comment to that very post that contained a spoiler. It was a tiny, minor one, but a spoiler nonetheless. So yeah, I learned.

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[author_by_night]

Good point. I'm not too worried about anyone on my flist, but trolls, certainly.

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[lyras]

All good tips - thank you! I hope this post gets widely read; I'll be linking to it when I next post to my LJ, if that's all right with you?

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[author_by_night]

Oh, sure - thank you! I definitely like to think I have stuff that'll help people, and the comments have terrific stuff too. So yeah.

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[lyras]

Just in case you're interested, I posted a couple of weeks ago about ways to minimise your chances of being spoiled using LJ's friending, message notification and friends filtering features. It's here.

I didn't link to it originally because your post is more about unintentional spoilers than malicious spoiler trolls, but maybe there's some stuff there that might be useful to you/others. :)

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[author_by_night]

Well, there definitely are malicious spoiler trolls to - I've encountered them, in this fandom and, more recently, in Heroes fandom. (Well, actually, in some of those cases I couldn't tell if the posters were just clueless or trolls. The forum for Heroes that I go to doesn't exactly have a large population of members who understand netiquette or posess great maturity.)

I probably will find a way to filter my comms, because I do belong to some that have spoilery potential. And definitely no site visiting. Because when I was thinking about that, I realized two sites and a few groups I belong to are extremely ship-specific. So if a character of one of the site's Chosen Ship dies? Yep. (Or if that ship stops being canon for other reasons, but that better not happen!)