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From: buzzard@world.std.com (Sean T Barrett)
Subject: on spoilers [was Quick reactions to games]
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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 10:18:26 GMT
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(no spoilers)

In article <tclh81r1e4ejfd@corp.supernews.com>,  <siduri@freedom.net> wrote:
>Perfunctory spoiler warning here.
[snip]
>My second favorite [snip] game is actually--yeah, yeah, I told you
>about the spoilers already--[snip]

While I appreciate people attempting to provide spoiler warnings,
it would help if you actually imagine the audience that wants to
be shielded from the spoilers and realize that you have to tell
them what game you're going to spoil--or if that would spoil
it, point out that you're not going to spoil the game which the
post seems to be about (in this case, I-0), but some other random
game (which will, unfortunately, cause all spoiler-sensitive
readers to simply skip the post--in this case, I think the game
could have been mentioned).

By the time I parse the second "spoilers" above my eyes have
already seen the whole text, so it's a little too late.

While I seem to be singling you out, this is probably the second or
third time this year I've I've seen posts like this, although
admittedly at least in this case the actual content wasn't a spoiler
*for me*.  (I'd seen it in some other post that wasn't spoiler-warned,
I think.)

SeanB
