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fandom: lord of the rings, spoilers- noooo! you bitch! you bitch!!!

HDU spoil a book that's 75 years old!
smilla840 is unhappy because a Hobbit fanfic didn't warn for spoilers. Cue laughter.

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jetamors
2013-01-04 10:13 pm UTC (link)

In fic summaries, specifically? I would say something on the order of weeks or months. I would place a longer period on, say, discussions in otherwise unrelated conversations, or, say, fic summaries posted in areas where a reasonable person might not expect to see a fic summary for the fandom. But as a reader, I operate on the assumption that any fic will assume I've been exposed to the whole canon, and as a writer I operate on the assumption that after a few months, anyone who really wants to experience the canon has either experienced it already or is staying away from fic.

If we're speaking more generally, I would say the reasonable absolute outer limit for any kind of spoiler warning would be "one human generation".

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