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fandomsecrets2012-10-14 03:46 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2012-10-14 03:46 pm
[ SECRET POST #2112 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2112 ⌋
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Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 102 secrets from Secret Submission Post #302.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.
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(Anonymous) 2012-10-14 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)This has been an issue for almost as long as fandom has existed; I ran straight into it during my Buffy days.
The facts are these; if you're in the fandom (not even necessarily that) and on the internet around the time of something happening - particularly if it's big -, you're going to get spoiled. Deal with it. Seriously, we had innumerable debates about this and the fact was that it wasn't possible to construct a perfectly spoiler-free environment; when even the fact that there's something to spoil becomes a spoiler, we've got problems.
The truly spoilerphobic will see spoilers everywhere, and with the time between initial airing and global availability becoming smaller and smaller (I remember downloading Buffy and it taking about five days through IRC, and now people can't wait for a torrent?) the risk of somebody slipping up becomes greater and greater.
And yet... it's still annoying when it happens. I've still been there, spoiled for a British show that aired earlier in the US for peculiar PBS reasons, with a conflict about spoiler space (this was the days before tags) and proper message headers. But ultimately? It was my fault. If I didn't want Red Dwarf S8 spoilers, I should have stayed out of alt.tv.red-dwarf. That simple.
You want to participate in fandom but not get spoiled? Fine, people try. You want people to bend over backwards for your benefit to make sure you don't get a vague hint of anything that might possibly be a spoiler? Not gonna happen.