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Someone pointed out that I didn't use a spoiler tag in my last post.

It's been 4 days dince it aired... is there a generally accepted rule on LJ for how long you have to cut content? I usually expect to be spoiled if it's after two days later. Promos more, I think, because that pertains to a not-yet-aired episode.

Speaking of THE EPISODE, in that final scene.. what was UP with EVE? Was that that guy who lost his hand like 3 years ago when I never watched the show? It looked like him.

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Spoilerism

[xaelle.livejournal.com]

is there a generally accepted rule on LJ for how long you have to cut content?

No, there isn't, but I'm in Australia and Angel does not begin to screen until February 2004, so cut tags are appreciated.

I have the good fortune to have an e-friend capturing AtS, downsizing it somehow, and ftp-ing it to me 2-3 days after it screens in the US. I'm a lucky person and I know it - generally the LJ community are fairly curcumspect about spoilers and my Aussie fiends and I are grateful.

I am inadvertantly spoiled sometimes but that is the price for enjoying the LJ interaction.

So, generally,I would suggest that a cut-tag is minimal effort and you don't know who's reading - be kind to us folk from far away...we appreciate it.

Cheers!
Ann

Re: Spoilerism

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Hm. Well, I don't know... I can understand not doing it for a week... but I can't not talk about stuff for 6 months. I just talk about Jossverse too much in my regular entries (excapt lately when my entries have been less in number, and coming in spurts) to be able to do that. Like, I might cut an episode summary, but three weeks from now I might make a random comment about something from that episode, maybe in how it connected to something I read or saw or did that day. And it could be a spoilery comment, from your perspective. I don't know... no one's ever really complained to me about that before, so I never even thought about it, but I do that often. I guess because it seemed a lot of the people I do have on my list that I know are in other countries end up with an arrangement like yours-- they have someone give them tapes, or they download the episodes. So they're often right alongside me, or sometimes ahead. Especially if they read spoilers of anything that hasn't aired at all yet.

I think i'll post an announement saying that my journal is spoiler-free guaranteed only for American airing dates, and that there is risk that Europeans could be spoiled.

Re: Spoilerism

[xaelle.livejournal.com]

I don't think I was suggesting that you not talk about stuff for months - just that cut tags for heavily spoilerish discussions are appreciated (and not that much of an effort) by folks from far away, and there are those who just might not be as fortunate as myself and others with friends who feed them the eps.

I do believe that people reading the LJ know the risk they take - and if they're reading journals that regularly spoiled them and they had an issue with this, they'd just de-friend to protect themselves.

Also, there is a *huge* difference between a random comment or a general statement about an ep and a blow by blow description/review/analysis.

Cheers!
Ann