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There isn't any solution to people showing a lack of consideration for others, though. Well, there is, but mass murder isn't all that practical.
Barbelith's a really odd place in that a lot of its active members don't appear to have very much - if any - experience of other messageboards (you can also see this in the way that internet memes have a habit of hitting here relatively late in the day). Spoiler tags of this kind are fairly common elsewhere, but I do appreciate that there's the potential for overuse and misuse because of a lack of familiarity with them. Muddled threads are clearly not a good thing, but hopefully that'd just be a matter of people learning how and when to use them, how and when spoiler threads are required.
But that's possibly me being over-optimistic. You're right, Stoatie - past behaviour doesn't exactly point to this working out the way it should, and the complexity of the tag makes it even less likely that it'll be used properly on a board where an awful lot of posters still can't be fucked to make proper links.
What it does do, for me, is remove any excuse that anybody might have for not adequately flagging spoilers in future. |
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