If you care about spoilers, why are you still here reading? (Destiny)

by Ragashingo , Official DBO Cryptarch, Monday, September 04, 2017, 01:12 (2725 days ago) @ Funkmon

In my opinion, if you see a (for example) Life Is Strange post that doesn't explicitly say no spoilers in the topic, and you don't want Life Is Strange spoilers, don't click on it. If you get the story spoiled, your fault. If you stumble across that spoiler in an unrelated thread, that sucks, but a worthy sacrifice for free conversation. I don't usually do that, but it happens.

Heh. Funny how nobody here bats an eye if you let them know up from when you plan to have spoilers and when you don’t.

...the onus should be on the person who wants to avoid information to avoid the information.

I think maybe the rules should shift depending on where a conversation is taking place.

Around a water cooler or in a break room where it’s hard not to hear people discussing the latest thing? Then yeah, the person looking not to be spoiled should probably leave or stick in some headphones. There’s only so much you can and should do to prevent the sound waves of a regular conversation spreading across a room.

But here on a forum where conversations are not real time and where we have so so many options to limit and prewarn about spoilers? At that point most of the responsibility should probably shift from the person reading the post to the person typing the it. Around here, especially, since as already demonstrated above, most everyone is happy to have spoiler threads mix with everything else as long as they are properly marked.

I’ve actually been pretty impressed with the Internet in this buildup to Destiny 2. There’s certainly been spoilers around, but everyone here and the other places I visit have done a good job of marking their spoilers. (Not that I can be spoiled! I’ve read and viewed every drop of info out there. But I appreciate the effort everyone has put in.)