Spoiler wank in LJ's pgsm

djranmas posts in LJ's live-action Sailor Moon community about just having finished the series recently, and in the process reveals something big that happens in the third-to-last episode of the show (spoiler warning for that link). People complain. People complain about people complaining. Etc.

djranmas makes a new post wherein he insists that spoilers are the way of life and that people complaining about it are "bantering to the masses", or something.

A neat wank to top off all the newbie wank that's been going on in the comm for a while.

EDIT: Baleeted. I thought it might be, so I saved them:

First post by djranmas
Some sub-threads: one, two, three, four, five
Second post by djranmas

Also, the mod is now having a poll about spoilers. Personally I'm happy about it, but the, eh, bantering continues in the comments.

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iris
2004-11-19 08:36 pm UTC (link)

I think that cutting spoilers is common courtesy. I mean, even Fullmetal Alchemist fans know to do it! Fucking Fullmetal Alchemist fans, whose collective wank could power Los Angeles for a year!

(Though of course, then we wank about how to label posts containing cut spoilers, but at least we cut them.)

I haven't been following the live-action Sailor Moon, but as someone who came into FMA fandom when episodes in the twenties or so were airing, I definitely appreciated that people cut their spoilers. Now the show is over in Japan, yeah, but we still have people who are new to it, or people who have been watching subs but still haven't been able to finish, stuff like that...just because the show has ended, that doesn't mean that all the fans will suddenly and miraculously be finished with it.

(Actually, I'm impressed with

fm_alchemist right now. After the initial wanking among old members about how to handle the newbie influx, I haven't really seen anything bad lately. Oldbies are cutting their spoilers, most of the newbies are quite pleasant...could the fandom be...GROWING UP? o_O)

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	big_bad_wolf 2004-11-19 08:44 pm UTC (link)
	Just you wait. The next wank posted will be an FM Alchemist one now. You've JINXED IT! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	iris 2004-11-20 05:55 am UTC (link)
	Yes, it seems I did. XD (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lemone 2004-11-20 05:58 am UTC (link)
	Well, at least it couldn't get any worse... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sarracenia 2004-11-20 04:44 am UTC (link)
	WHO ARE YOU SAYING IS A SUPER TINY ITTY BITTY FANDOM THAT NEEDS TO DRINK TWENTY GLASSES OF MILK A DAY TO GROW AND IS TINY LIKE A LITTLE BEAN?! (I <3 Ed.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

misswindy
2004-11-20 04:11 pm UTC (link)

cutting spoilers is common courtesy.

I actually disagree with this as a general rule. I think for some people, spoiler-seeking is their main fannish enjoyment, and they like to talk about it on their LJs, and it's not "discourteous" or "disrespectful" to enjoy fandom in that particular way. You can always not read their LJs.

However, if it's part of a community's rules to cut tag spoilers, then it is disrespectful to not comply.

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