It's not about you. . . wtf entitlement?
SPOILERS
Some of us like them. We seek them out. We rehash them in spoiler communities with like-minded friends. Some of us hate them. We look forward to honest emotional surprises, to the WTFPOLARBEAR!!!! moments, to feeling a jolt of endorphins when we find out that Bruce Willis is dead. Neither one is right or wrong. They are preferences, and people will vary.
What is wrong? Insisting that because YOU don't care about being spoiled, that NO ONE should. I will never understand the round-and-round that goes on about spoilage because it is so easy for *everyone* to be accommodated. Before you spoil, ask. If the person in question doesn't want to be spoiled, there are other people you can talk to who don't mind. One easy method? Put a spoiler cut in your own journal and then see who responds. Clearly, those people who clicked the cut don't mind. Join spoiler communities (oh how I loved you cylon_secrets.
Finally, because this always comes up in the Great Spoiler Debates: People who make the argument that spoiler-phobes should stay off the internet/stay out of fandom/shut themselves in a closet in the interior walls of their own home/etc. if they want to remain spoiler free are being selfish, rude, and are advocating for the internet to be a place completely free of social consideration and politeness to other people. Now, I'm not saying that the internet isn't often a rude and unfriendly place to be, but that doesn't mean that's the attitude we have to strive for every time we open up the web browser.
Didn't your mama teach you any manners?
Some of us like them. We seek them out. We rehash them in spoiler communities with like-minded friends. Some of us hate them. We look forward to honest emotional surprises, to the WTFPOLARBEAR!!!! moments, to feeling a jolt of endorphins when we find out that Bruce Willis is dead. Neither one is right or wrong. They are preferences, and people will vary.
What is wrong? Insisting that because YOU don't care about being spoiled, that NO ONE should. I will never understand the round-and-round that goes on about spoilage because it is so easy for *everyone* to be accommodated. Before you spoil, ask. If the person in question doesn't want to be spoiled, there are other people you can talk to who don't mind. One easy method? Put a spoiler cut in your own journal and then see who responds. Clearly, those people who clicked the cut don't mind. Join spoiler communities (oh how I loved you cylon_secrets.
Finally, because this always comes up in the Great Spoiler Debates: People who make the argument that spoiler-phobes should stay off the internet/stay out of fandom/shut themselves in a closet in the interior walls of their own home/etc. if they want to remain spoiler free are being selfish, rude, and are advocating for the internet to be a place completely free of social consideration and politeness to other people. Now, I'm not saying that the internet isn't often a rude and unfriendly place to be, but that doesn't mean that's the attitude we have to strive for every time we open up the web browser.
Didn't your mama teach you any manners?