[ SECRET POST #3303 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3303 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[thezmage]

Basically, you give people a reasonable amount of time to see/experience the work in question if they want to. Not everyone can get out to a movie opening weekend, and most people see movies on weekends, so you give a certain number of weekends to see the movie. Not as many people are seeing tv shows live these days, but will usually, if they particularly care) see it within the week, so I consider a week to be reasonable for most shows on broadcast television, but a longer time for shows like Dexter that, due to difficulties in getting HBO or the long form storytelling that such shows work better in, large numbers of people wait for the DVD on. For books and videogames, getting the product should be easy, but there's typically a longer time to finish those products, so more than a month (again, depending on the game) is more reasonable.

The reasonable standard is: don't be a dick. If you know someone hasn't seen it, don't mention spoilers without permission. If you think it'll be looked at by a significant volume of people who haven't gotten there yet but not due to a lack of caring, don't give a spoiler. At this point, I think Dexter spoilers are totally fair game. A significant amount of time has passed for the people who really care to see it.

[sarillia]

I don't see how it follows that someone who hasn't watched something within that time period doesn't really care. What if they just hadn't heard of it before or hadn't heard about the specific aspects of it that turn it from something they've vaguely heard of to something they actually want to see?

[(Anonymous)]

Because once something as easily accessible as a TV show is years old, it has become part of pop culture and the background of that fandom. As such, if someone has just joined the party and doesn't want to know what the rest of fandom takes for granted, the onus is on them to avoid spoilers until they catch up. Only an extremely entitled person would expect everyone around them to clear it with them first before talking about something that happened on a decade-old TV series that's been off the air since 2013. Instead of that person throwing a temper tantrum, it would have made more sense for them to scroll down, see the giant picture of Dexter, and not read the much smaller text above it *or* maybe even say to themselves, "Gee, I'm so into Dexter right now that I would fly into a screaming fit if I found out that anyone in this show about torture and murder died. Maybe I should avoid places on the internet that largely cater to people who like to obsess over nitpicky details on various fannish media until I've watched a few more seasons."

[diet_poison]

not all TV shows become a part of pop culture. Come on.

[thezmage]

Neither or those two variables are worth accounting for. It is literally impossible for someone to care about something they don't know about, and if they hadn't heard about the specific thing that makes them care, then the problem is too few spoilers, not too many.

Literally, you just listed two circumstances in which increased conversation and, thus, spoilers are called for