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Fuck you and the horse you rode in on ([info]photosinensis) wrote in [info]jurisimprudence,
@ 2006-05-07 21:31:00


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A poll on spoilers
Okay, so I've decided unilaterally after this wank that we really should have a set law about how long people should worry about spoilers before everyone is expected to know, and those who don't can be told that they need to stop whining and shut the fuck up.


Poll #139 So, how 'bout them spoilers?
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

How long does it take for a spoiler to cease being a spoiler?

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Once a spoiler, always a spoiler. Never bring it up in public, as someone might have been living under a rock and thus doesn't know.
0 (0.0%)

Four millenia. Everybody knows that Hector dies.
1 (0.8%)

Three millenia. Everybody knows that the Isrealites get out of Egypt.
0 (0.0%)

Two millenia. Everybody knows that Jesus comes back from the dead.
1 (0.8%)

One millenium. Everybody knows that Beowulf kills Grendel.
0 (0.0%)

Five centuries. Everybody knows everyone in Elsinore dies.
2 (1.6%)

Four centuries. Everybody knows that Satan prefers ruling in Hell over serving in Heaven.
0 (0.0%)

Three centuries. Everybody knows that the Yanks win.
0 (0.0%)

Two Centuries. Everybody knows that Captain Ahab is insane.
0 (0.0%)

One Century. Everybody knows that the Eloi and the Morlocks both descend from humans.
0 (0.0%)

90 years. Everybody knows that Gregor turns into a giant bug and dies some time later.
1 (0.8%)

80 years. Everybody knows that Wilson kills Gatsby and then commits suicide.
0 (0.0%)

70 years. Everybody knows that Bilbo gets a magic ring.
0 (0.0%)

60 years. Everybody knows that Anne Frank dies at Bergen-Belsen.
1 (0.8%)

50 years. Everybody knows that Gollum bites Frodo's finger off, then falls back into Mount Doom with the One Ring.
0 (0.0%)

40 years. Everybody knows that McMurphy gets lobotomized.
0 (0.0%)

30 years. Everybody knows that Nixon resigns.
0 (0.0%)

20 years. Everybody knows that Darth Vader is Luke's father.
0 (0.0%)

10 years. Everybody knows that Picard defeats the Borg and Zephram Cochrane launches the first warp engine on time.
1 (0.8%)

9 years. Everybody knows that Leo dies.
0 (0.0%)

8 years. Everybody knows that the first fifteen minutes of "Saving Private Ryan" are the only part of the film worth watching.
1 (0.8%)

7 years. Everybody knows that Bruce Willis is dead and that George Lucas isn't above raping his own franchise.
0 (0.0%)

6 years. Everybody knows that Voldemort comes back.
0 (0.0%)

5 years. Everybody knows that Bush bungles the retalliation.
1 (0.8%)

4 years. Everybody knows that Peter just shoots Mary Jane down at the funeral.
0 (0.0%)

3 years. Everybody knows to expect the Hogwarts Inquisition.
0 (0.0%)

2 years. Everybody knows that the Cylons look like us now.
4 (3.3%)

1 year. Everybody knows that SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE (Page 606, totally true)!
16 (13.1%)

6 months. Reasonable, especially for television fandoms.
37 (30.3%)

1 month. That's enough to get it out of your system.
24 (19.7%)

Upon release. Let the slow folk suffer for being stupid.
3 (2.5%)

Spoilers? Everybody knows that Samuel L. Jackson gets the motherfucking snakes off his motherfucking plane.
29 (23.8%)

Tickybox?

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Ticky!
105 (100.0%)



Okay, change that "six months" to read: "Everybody knows that the Fleet finds the Pegasus."

Thank you for your participation.


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[info]circumstance
2006-05-08 01:33 am UTC (link)
Hee!

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[info]smo
2006-05-08 01:35 am UTC (link)
GIP!

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[info]gal_montag
2006-05-08 01:40 am UTC (link)
Can there be, like, a relative obscurity clause? LOTR and HP, for example, are pretty popular fandoms, however, I probably never would have read the Iiliad if someone hadn't made me. And this wouldn't apply to endings so well known that they're cliches, like how Romeo and Juliet die or how Rosebud is the sled.

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[info]photosinensis
2006-05-08 01:48 am UTC (link)
Well, sure. I mean, if I were to pull out a copy of the worst prose ever written(tm), nobody'd know it. It's currently a manuscript, and it's sitting in my closet. I had to read it for a literature class. The profs (who are also the deans of one of the colleges here) are trying to get it published.

Why? They're drunk most of the time.

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(no subject) - [info]gal_montag, 2006-05-08 02:00 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]photosinensis, 2006-05-08 02:09 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]gal_montag, 2006-05-08 02:11 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]photosinensis, 2006-05-08 02:13 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]hitchhiker42, 2006-05-08 03:22 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]photosinensis, 2006-05-08 03:28 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]hitchhiker42, 2006-05-08 03:42 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]cleolinda, 2006-05-08 05:18 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]photosinensis, 2006-05-08 05:23 am UTC

[info]iwanttobeasleep
2006-05-08 02:04 am UTC (link)
I second that! Spoilers are always spoilers in fandoms that no one has ever heard of.

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-07-04 04:40 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]gal_montag, 2006-07-06 05:47 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]gal_montag, 2006-07-06 05:47 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2007-05-03 01:25 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]gal_montag, 2007-05-03 09:24 pm UTC

[info]kadath
2006-05-08 01:42 am UTC (link)
I have no opinion strong enough to move me to vote in the poll, but I did laugh. Hee!

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(no subject) - [info]ashenmote, 2006-05-08 01:56 am UTC

[info]april_hurst
2006-05-08 01:55 am UTC (link)
1 month, generally. The issue is that with the Internet, people from all over the world meet to discuss fandom, and many things have different release dates in different nations. So I'd say 1 month from the last first release.

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(no subject) - [info]smo, 2006-05-08 12:58 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-07-04 04:41 am UTC

[info]sesana
2006-05-08 01:57 am UTC (link)
Can you even come up with a general guideline? A few weeks or a month is a reasonable amount of time to expect somebody to read HBP in, but it's rather long when you're talking about a TV show.

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(no subject) - [info]fernwithy, 2006-05-08 04:12 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]sesana, 2006-05-08 04:37 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]squib, 2006-05-08 11:44 am UTC

[info]iris
2006-05-08 02:02 am UTC (link)
Everybody knows that Leo dies.

LEOOOOOO. ;~;

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(no subject) - [info]blackjackrocket, 2006-05-08 04:40 am UTC

[info]hitchhiker42
2006-05-08 02:12 am UTC (link)
Are you refering to BSG? Because everybody knew that when it aired the first time, back in the day.

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(no subject) - [info]photosinensis, 2006-05-08 02:17 am UTC

[info]platedlizard
2006-05-08 02:39 am UTC (link)
Elsinore dies!? You bastard! You spoilered me!




Um, yay ticky boxes!

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[info]ruaki
2006-05-08 03:01 am UTC (link)
Awesome answers to your poll.

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[info]randomsome1
2006-05-08 03:29 am UTC (link)
The Titanic sinks!

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(no subject) - [info]tavalya_ra, 2006-05-08 03:43 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]dark_puck, 2006-05-08 12:41 pm UTC

[info]fernwithy
2006-05-08 04:08 am UTC (link)
One millenium. Everybody knows that Beowulf kills Grendel.

zOMG! I HAVEN'T READ THAT YET!!!!

;)

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[info]frenzy
2006-05-08 04:14 am UTC (link)
Holy crap, Titanic was nine years ago?!

...

Holy crap, The Sixth Sense was seven years ago?!

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(no subject) - [info]smo, 2006-05-08 04:24 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]cleolinda, 2006-05-08 05:22 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2006-05-08 12:32 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]cleolinda, 2006-05-08 01:44 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2006-05-08 02:34 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]cleolinda, 2006-05-08 04:08 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]cleolinda, 2006-05-08 04:09 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2006-05-08 04:11 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mcity, 2006-05-08 05:31 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2006-05-08 05:37 pm UTC
The FMA series ends with no closure whatsoever. - [info]mcity, 2006-05-08 05:32 pm UTC
Re: The FMA series ends with no closure whatsoever. - [info]hallidae, 2006-05-08 07:24 pm UTC

[info]hallidae
2006-05-08 05:36 am UTC (link)
I forget, is McMurphy from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?

And I'm echoing the "Holy shit, Titanic was nine years ago?!" sentiment.

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(no subject) - [info]photosinensis, 2006-05-08 05:38 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]hallidae, 2006-05-08 05:47 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]ashenmote, 2006-05-08 10:59 am UTC

[info]wankismyfandom
2006-05-08 10:49 am UTC (link)
I was originally in a quandary about whether to vote for a month or six months, depending on the nature of the fandom, but then you Snakes-on-a-Planed me and the decision was moot.

Oh, and I'm also OMGWTFing that I've apparently been in love with Kate Winslet for seven years now.

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(no subject) - [info]photosinensis, 2006-05-08 03:30 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]marlo, 2006-05-08 06:36 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]antimatterspork, 2006-05-13 01:52 pm UTC

[info]b_jellybean
2006-05-08 11:46 am UTC (link)
You're lucky that I JUST WATCHED that episode or else I would NOT have known that the fleet finds the Pegasus!

Not, of course, that I have been trying all that hard to avoid BSG spoilers, considering I often look at links to webpages, say "I bet that'll spoil me," and click anyway.

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(no subject) - [info]photosinensis, 2006-05-08 03:31 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]b_jellybean, 2006-05-08 08:48 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mcity, 2006-05-08 05:34 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]b_jellybean, 2006-05-08 08:45 pm UTC

[info]sashenka
2006-05-08 02:01 pm UTC (link)
I generally think 1 or 2 months is more than enough. If you're a huge obsessed fan, you will generally find a way to see or read something in a month or 2. I guess I've just never been that angered by spoilers, though.

As for other countries. I think boards should have policies based on who is there. If a bored is very mixed as far as location, they can have a policy to reflect that, but if most of the people are in one area, then it's less of an issue.

Wilson kills Gatsby and then commits suicide.
I think I love you. Best book ever.

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[info]sarajayechan
2006-05-08 02:07 pm UTC (link)
To be fair, though, there's also the factor of whether or not someone's read/seen/played something before, no matter how long it's been out.

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That's why this is an issue at all - [info]karmakaze, 2006-05-08 03:26 pm UTC
Re: That's why this is an issue at all - [info]mcity, 2006-05-08 05:36 pm UTC
Re: That's why this is an issue at all - [info]karmakaze, 2006-05-08 05:44 pm UTC
Re: That's why this is an issue at all - [info]fernwithy, 2006-05-09 02:54 pm UTC
Re: That's why this is an issue at all - [info]sarajayechan, 2006-05-08 07:50 pm UTC

[info]mcity
2006-05-08 05:29 pm UTC (link)
Everybody knows that the first fifteen minutes of "Saving Private Ryan" are the only part of the film worth watching.
Pistols at dawn, sir.

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[info]marlo
2006-05-08 06:38 pm UTC (link)
I know Soylent Green is people, but I still wanna watch it.

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[info]tao_tao
2006-05-08 07:43 pm UTC (link)
There is a difference between not walking on tiptoes or not having H/G common room kiss icons before the latin version of HBP is out, and actively spoiling something for someone. There is no reason to tell anyone that Bruce Willis is dead before you asked them if they have seen "The sixth sense". Never! Not even in 30 years.
A movie can not only be enjoyed the year it comes out.

I want to apologize if someone here has not seen that movie yet.

Other things are of course general knowledge, like the sordid Skywalker relations. There is a difference!

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It depends on how it came out - [info]karmakaze, 2006-05-08 08:24 pm UTC

[info]iwanttobeasleep
2006-05-08 07:52 pm UTC (link)
Eh. I think unless it's a giant, worldwide fandom like Harry Potter, or it's in a community devoted to that fandom and the spoilers are a month or two old (barring video games, those take for friggin' ever to beat if you have any semblance of a life), it's common curtesy and spoilers should always be marked.

Why do people get so mad when people complain about spoilers? That's what I want to know. I've been yelled at twice now for just saying "Please cut and mark for spoilers." Is it that much to ask?

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(no subject) - [info]fernwithy, 2006-05-09 02:50 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]iwanttobeasleep, 2006-05-09 03:00 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]fernwithy, 2006-05-09 03:21 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]iwanttobeasleep, 2006-05-09 03:23 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]fernwithy, 2006-05-09 03:24 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]iwanttobeasleep, 2006-05-09 03:26 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]fernwithy, 2006-05-09 03:32 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]iwanttobeasleep, 2006-05-09 03:40 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]fernwithy, 2006-05-09 03:49 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]iwanttobeasleep, 2006-05-09 03:57 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]fernwithy, 2006-05-09 04:00 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]fernwithy, 2006-05-09 03:30 pm UTC

(Anonymous)
2006-06-01 02:00 pm UTC (link)
I went to high school with someone who didn't know how Hamlet ended. I discovered this when I spoiled it for him discussing it before class. Senior year.

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