LJ and spoilers.

[wisteria_]

About a year ago, I did a post and poll asking where people stand on talking about TV spoilers on LJ. Given the increasing prominence of time-shifting and downloading, I thought I'd throw it out there again! I'll start off by giving an example: last night I chose to watch Ugly Betty live, and I TiVoed The Office to watch after work today. If I

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[txvoodoo]

I pretty much cut-tag any major plot points, since my flist is worldwide and not everyone has time to watch everything when it airs. Heck, some of my flist get into things months after they've aired.

I figure it takes me 2 seconds and saves them agita :D

[txvoodoo]

Oh, I also don't think that icons, unless they show a death or a kiss or boinking, are spoilery. Hell, I personally think most PHOTOS can be interepreted 300 diff ways until we've SEEN an episode :D But icons? Yeah. A pretty pic of Sawyer? Pfft :D

Now, text icons w/ lines? I confine those to discussion threads.

[wisteria_]

Yeah, I figure general character icons are just fine, but I wouldn't have used, say, an icon with "R.I.P. Boone!" until at least a month or two after that S1 episode aired, just to give people a chance to catch up.

That said, I've seen posts from friends who got really pissed off when, to use the same example, they checked their flist after an episode and saw post after post with those generic Boone icons -- which tipped them off that something huge happened to him. I think that getting angry about that is going a wee bit overboard, but I can see why it would upset them. (The Boone thing didn't actually happen, but it's the only example I can come up with that wouldn't spoil anyone reading this! Of course, now I'll probably get flamed by people who still haven't seen Lost S1. ;)

Eh, I suppose just marking EVERYTHING as a spoiler is probably for the best. ;)

[txvoodoo]

I'm sure you've seen my posts for pics for various programs. I also post these on communities, which is why I now don't even put the episode title in the post, but only on the gallery. Because people bitched.

They bitched about The Office: Phyllis's Wedding. And Studio 60: Harriet's Dinner. *rolls eyes*

[wickedgillie]

What? Boone dies? Oh noes!!! Now I'm spoiled and you've gone and ruined it for me ;)

(you know I'm kidding, right?)

[magnolia888]

I try to be good about this, I swear! :)

I didn't think I posted anything that would remotely be considered a spoiler, so I'd be curious to know what you thought was "spoilery." I usually put the episode title as the title of my post, so it never occurred to me to cut something like that.

[zandra_x]

The only show I care about not being spoiled for is "The Office". I don't even want to know the title of the show and will turn off any on tv promos. I recently dropped out of a community because people couldn't understand that putting the promo pictures behind a cut but explaining what they showed in cut tag text is a spoiler.

[red_sunflower]

I'm one of those fans that wakes up early and tries to torrent or download the episode and I try to watch it during breakfast. Sometimes is not enough and I have to wait. Sometimes torrents are not available after a couple of days and I certainly don't want to know what happens.

There is somebody in my friend list that refuses to use the lj cut tag, I just had to filter the posts because I was very upset to find out the entire discussion of an episode before I had the chance to watch.

If I make comments about an episode I usually put it behind a cut tag even if the episode has aired some time ago, but I do it with the purpose of avoid a large post on my friends' friend page. Still I believe that one week is the courteous thing.