Dear authors

[lyssie]

It does no good to tell us there are spoilers in your story when you then proceed to put the spoilers in your pairing information or summary.

I swear. People get stupider the longer I'm alive.

There has to be a correlation.

In other news, it is fucking hot here. *dies of heat exhaustion*

Comments

[liminalliz.livejournal.com]

AAAAAH!!! I'm so guilty of this. Just now.

[lavidaessueno.livejournal.com]

don't even get me started on that one.

Sometime early last season someone posted a story to S/J that gave no spoiler warnings whatsoever. Then in the header, it said Season: after the proposal in "Affinity"

I had remained utterly unspoiled until that moment, and I was PISSED.

[nique.livejournal.com]

I think people do not understand how to do "After the events in *insert episode hame here*" in their summaries. The unspoiled will avoid, those who've seen it will likely know what you're on about.

It's not that hard.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

...er?

ok?

[liminalliz.livejournal.com]

::flaaaaaaaaaaaailzzzzzzzzz::

[timjr.livejournal.com]

People are getting stupider the longer I'm alive, too.

Especially people I knew in school.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

erm, I didn't see any spoilers, but then, I'm really not expecting much from Serenity.

But, no, I wasn't ranting at you, sweetie.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

yerg.

I still say the best was the ff'net summary: "contains spoilers for Threads! 'the massive spoiler regarding Jacob, 'cause he's thinking about stuff'."

[lavidaessueno.livejournal.com]

Oy.

another good one was the author who posted all appropriate warnings in the header and put a spoiler space between the header and the fic ...

but in her intro that preceded the headers, gave a huge spoiler. Which she then said wasn't a spoiler because "it's just speculation about an upcoming show that I've heard people talking about on the list."

Oh, right. See, 'cause I thought a spoiler was speculation about an upcoming show that people talked about on this list. Good to know I wasn't mistaken, Sh*tForBrains.

[erica-w.livejournal.com]

I think the spoiler stupidity is perpetuated by the "OMG you didn't warn me!" stupidity, and the authors are just not thinking.

Weatherbug says is 78 degrees with 30% humidity here. It feels much warmer to me though, so I'd add 10 to both.

[million-moments.livejournal.com]

Spoilers are everywhere!!!!

[nakedtoes.livejournal.com]

This makes me want to write a short fic, make up spoilers and post them in a subject line. Eg, "SPOILERS for S9: Bra'tac is crippled on a secret mission to find the secret hiding place of the surviving Goa'uld." Admittedly, I don't think most people would actually care - Bra'tac should have more loving too. *sads*