This post contains (Spoilers)
This is a very important issue on message boards. Many of the things people discuss there are movies, books, and video games. Sometimes you are even visited by movie studios that want to do a bit of market research on a particular movie that you saw. What if you never watched this movie, played this video game, or read this book?
Well…the customary thing to do when posting a topic about something that could ruin the experience of the people who have not yet had a chance to see a movire or play a video game is to mark the topic in the title with the word (spoilers??), **spoilers**, etc. This let’s them know that you only want people that have already been informed of the plots to respond and that if people have not yet viewed or read this information they should pass the thread by so that they do not get the story ruined.
On the other hand…when someone is trying to get the banstick pulled on them they will deliberately start topics with misleading titles so that they can bust out some massive spoilers and ruin everyone’s day. Some are even bad enough just to post spoilers in the topic title. Others think it is funny just to throw a spoiler in the middle of a topic that has nothing to do with what they are saying.
Examples of good posters:
Topic: Se7en(spoilers)
First post: Isn’t that crazy how his wife’s head was in the box at the end?
Topic: Who is Sin? **spoilers!**
First post: ^topic
Second Post: Jecht
Some examples of bad posters:
Topic Title: I hate school
First post: Snape Killed Dembledore
Topic Title: My dad walked in on me ummm…
First post: Bruce Willis is really dead in The Sixth Sense
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I don’t know if I’d really call that second one a good non-spoiler title.
What if they didn’t know dumbledore died?
LOL! Good catch. That is actually quite true. I suppose I should use a different example.