ILC Spoiler Policy

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One reason I read ILC is because I don't read actual comics very much anymore (though having just spent £30 on them on amazon this may be a barefaced lie). So I actively WANT spoilers, it keeps me current and gives me things to laugh about.

But obviously other ILC regulars do not want spoilers and rightly so.

So what I suggest is this: have TWO shipping this week threads, one for anticipation and whaddaya buying and one for full and frank discussion which is known to include spoilers. Once you'd read all the issues you wanted to read on the first you could 'graduate' to the second.

The other thing which would be even neater (but would involve special attention being paid to our tiny board by the Cosmic Powers of ILX) would be a bit of code that we could use to hide paragraphs of spoiled stuff which could then be clicked on to reveal.

We should also have a 'spoiler expiry' policy whereby threads don't have to have specific spoiler warnings, say a year after the publication of a trade or 2 years after an uncollected issue sees release?

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

That's some good thinkin' there, Tom. Spoiler code would be especially great.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.gallifreyone.com/newstv.php

(This is where I nicked the spoiler protection idea from & is a good example of how it works - "spoiler space" that old Usenet standby just doesn't work in an ILX format)

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

In the past -- for movies, if I remember right -- I've used white text for spoilers, but I'm not sure if that tag still works. (I'll check:

This shouldn't show up unless you highlight it.

)

Granted, that's not nearly as cool, but I assume we'd be pretty low-priority for the coding folks.

The two threads thing certainly makes sense, especially since those have been dated, which is helpful for folks (like me) who don't tend to pick up comics weekly.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

So much for the white text.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

The price we pay to keep it from blinking, I guess.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm game to this and will make the proper category for spoilers. (And not the teenage heroine from Birds of Prey LARF.)

― Jimmy Carter, History's Greatest Monster (Leee), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Damn, that white text was going to be my suggestion too. Maybe just big ***SPOILER ALERT*** and ***SPOILER OVER*** thingies. I'll try to remember, but I know I'll forget sometimes.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The board now has a "Spoiler-filled Discussion" category; if anyone feels that there's a better name, just let me know, or something. (Though thinking a little more about it, a category wouldn't necessarily be all that handy -- rather, something stating the spoilerific nature of the thread in the thread title would be more apt.)

― Jimmy Carter, History's Greatest Monster (Leee), Thursday, 5 August 2004 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

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