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[almosee]

Screw you sci-fi wire and you're untagged spoilers.
So I think, "okay, just check my flist after work, boring news, boring news, oh hey look, something on Ghost Whisperer. The show that is my dirty little secret in my heart. And oh look, spoiler

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[fools_game]

Fuckin' spoilers. Friday night is 'avoid my flist' night until I download the latest SPN.

[almosee]

Probably a very good idea. I'm generally good at avoiding them, especially with the Whoniverse (especially Sarah Jane) but thats because most people are smart enough to use a spoiler warning of some kind, you know, just in case.
Sci-fi wire, clearly not so smart.

[fools_game]

Got spoiled once - I mean, really, tragically spoiled - by Facebook, of all things. Some people just do not realise that there is an etiquette to these things.

[almosee]

What show was that for?

I find wiki's pretty bad for it, especially American shows, they seem to not care of forget that the rest of the world's behind them and they don't put a spoiler warning in. By the time you realise it's not there, hell, it's too late.

Real life is the worst though, friends who won't shut up. When I was a kid, two of my friends saw Jumanji the day before I did and wouldn't stop talking about it even when I asked them too. Made sure they outlined every twist and turn the movie took. Little bastards!

[fools_game]

For Supernatural. It was one of the gimmicky episode, can't remember which one - but the day it came out in the US, they sent out a reminder to watch it. With a detailed episode synopsis. Fuckers.

[almosee]

Agreed. There needs to be some painful way to punish people for things like that. But at the same time, whats the statute of limitations on spoilers. I'd always say about 6 months, because thats the longest it takes for a show to get out here, but what about some of the asian and european countries that may take even longer. Do we need to worry about spoiling them up to twelve months after the shows original air date?

[rayliehm]

My sympathies for getting spoiled, as I know how much of a pain in the arse that is...but I would say that it isn't just Americans assuming the rest of the world is up-to-date. I was posting DWS4 spoilers undeclared on my LJ until I found out some of the people who were likely to read it hadn't even seen a single episode...I use tags now, but until that point I'd just assumed that everyone else was on the same page as me.

[almosee]

Yeah, thats very true. On the DW front, I just always assume we're the last ones to get anything (and history has, many times, proven this correct) so I've never worried about it. But that isn't true, some countries get things behind us every now and again.
And all this does beg the age old question, when do things stop being spoiled? I always think of the Penny Arcade 'King Kong' joke, is it okay to talk spoilers 70 years after the original? At what point is it okay to assume, reasonable, that everybody in the room who intends to read/watch has had a chance to do some. Fools_Game suggested waiting until the DVD is released, and I guess thats as good a milestone as any. Or should it be a month after the DVD's released, just for all those poeple playing at home? :D
I dunno, it's tricky business. Most of the Who fandom seems to wait about a week (especially with Sarah Jane Adventures), although some factions still tag anything past Doomsday as spoilerific.

[scarfman]

In 1975 People Magazine printed a week ahead of time that Henry Blake was going to die on M*A*S*H.

[almosee]

Really? Wow, I didn't know that.
I guess while there's been things to spoil, there have been people and companies to make money spoiling them.

It does make me wonder how fans reacted back in 1975 though? That would have been something to see, but I guess it would have been pretty spread out, the internet has the great ability to centralise the craziness of fandom.

[solongdearie]

I love it when you fie things.

[almosee]

A good fieing always helps matters I find :P