I consider warning your friends list that you are discussing the trailer in this post, a favor for them, not something that should be automatically expected of you.
Now there is a code that applies to the spoiler community and what we should go by. I came in to Smallville spoiled, I know the rules about how to discuss spoilers without upsetting your unspoiled friends. Personally I do consider it expected and no thanks needed if we are going to use cut tags to share spoilers we specifically sought out. But there is confusion about whether squeeing over a TV trailer with your friends is going to count as a spoiler and offend some. That's the distinction I'm making, and that is when people are making an effort for those that say even a promo is too much information for them.
As far as I know it's not detailed spoiler info people are getting through friends lists. It's stuff like a casting spoiler that is up on billboards and buses so the spoiler free may be discussing it. Why should people bitch people out for forgetting a cut tag one time, when in fact using a warning system for that type of info is actually extending a courtesy to them in the first place? That is an instance where I don't see cut tags as something that should be automatically required of us. And yet people come over all hostile like the cut tag is theirs by rights.
FYI I wasn't thinking about your post. I thought you were perfectly polite in just mentioning some people might not want to be spoiled for that so cut tags couldn't hurt. But in the really long link from fandom wank, well some of the posts from the spoiler phobic were raising my eyebrows a little with the sense of entitlement coming across. Not getting a cut tag isn't something to be rude about, as far as I'm concerned.
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Now there is a code that applies to the spoiler community and what we should go by. I came in to Smallville spoiled, I know the rules about how to discuss spoilers without upsetting your unspoiled friends. Personally I do consider it expected and no thanks needed if we are going to use cut tags to share spoilers we specifically sought out. But there is confusion about whether squeeing over a TV trailer with your friends is going to count as a spoiler and offend some. That's the distinction I'm making, and that is when people are making an effort for those that say even a promo is too much information for them.
As far as I know it's not detailed spoiler info people are getting through friends lists. It's stuff like a casting spoiler that is up on billboards and buses so the spoiler free may be discussing it. Why should people bitch people out for forgetting a cut tag one time, when in fact using a warning system for that type of info is actually extending a courtesy to them in the first place? That is an instance where I don't see cut tags as something that should be automatically required of us. And yet people come over all hostile like the cut tag is theirs by rights.
FYI I wasn't thinking about your post. I thought you were perfectly polite in just mentioning some people might not want to be spoiled for that so cut tags couldn't hurt. But in the really long link from fandom wank, well some of the posts from the spoiler phobic were raising my eyebrows a little with the sense of entitlement coming across. Not getting a cut tag isn't something to be rude about, as far as I'm concerned.