Timeline for Prevent questions with movie/tv shows/game spoilers from appearing in the hot questions list
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| Apr 29, 2019 at 22:41 | comment | added | Braiam | This is relevant again because GoT? | |
| Apr 29, 2019 at 21:36 | history | edited | Nobilis | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 29, 2019 at 20:20 | comment | added | Peter Vandivier |
@mjeppesen you can block the HNQ here int the Sidebar section. Just tested it now and it blocks the HNQ for all sites (even ones you're not a member of). Then you just have to remember to not use the mobile app (got the last scene of GoT 8x03 spoiled for me this morning despite a self-imposed Twitter and FB moratorium 😰)
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| Mar 13, 2019 at 11:14 | comment | added | Nobilis | @Edlothiad Just because you don't have a problem with it, it doesn't mean that other people don't either. Saying "deal with it" is very unhelpful and clearly whatever policies are in place haven't managed to deter people from posting spoilers in the titles (otherwise this question wouldn't have been receiving attention and upvotes more than 5 years on from its publication). Why should ordinary users be made to accommodate the irresponsible ones? | |
| Mar 13, 2019 at 9:46 | comment | added | Edlothiad | @JoelBerkeley Maybe that hasn't come up in my read through of my python tutorial. What a spoiler that would be, maybe it's so overwhelming it puts me off my python learning experience and I give up. It's all subjective. I for one find spoilers tend to have a beneficial effect on my experience, especially the minor kind we get on our sites. The users work extremely hard to keep the content as clean as possible. If you're afraid of being spoiled either figure out how to hide the HNQ for a couple of days, or watch the film/episode. Or as an alternative, just be a mature adult about it. | |
| Mar 12, 2019 at 20:24 | comment | added | joel | @Edlothiad because knowing that some person on the internet wants to flatten their list of lists in python doesn't ruin anyone's coding experience. The equivalent can't be said of films | |
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| May 11, 2018 at 16:18 | answer | added | gnat | timeline score: 1 | |
| S May 10, 2018 at 19:38 | history | bounty started | Jeremy | ||
| S May 10, 2018 at 19:38 | history | notice added | Jeremy | Draw attention | |
| May 10, 2018 at 18:00 | answer | added | gbjbaanb | timeline score: -2 | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 11:36 | comment | added | Edlothiad | It's not a matter of "is it easy to ban the questions". It's a matter of "Why should our (SFF/M&TV/whatever) questions be denied the HNQ when others aren't" | |
| Jan 4, 2018 at 19:37 | answer | added | rgettman | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jan 4, 2018 at 16:48 | answer | added | GeneralMike | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 4, 2018 at 16:40 | answer | added | GeneralMike | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 3, 2018 at 9:34 | history | edited | Nobilis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 30, 2017 at 11:58 | answer | added | Rand al'Thor | timeline score: 7 | |
| Aug 30, 2017 at 11:53 | answer | added | Helmar | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 29, 2017 at 16:03 | answer | added | Stevoisiak | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 29, 2017 at 15:23 | answer | added | Jorn | timeline score: -4 | |
| Aug 24, 2017 at 12:32 | history | edited | Nobilis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 24, 2017 at 5:34 | comment | added | mjeppesen | @RockPaperLizard how did you block the Hot Network Questions area? | |
| May 11, 2016 at 21:26 | comment | added | Amazon Dies In Darkness | Because of the frequent spoilers from the Movies & TV Shows SE, I have had to block the entire Hot Network Questions area. This, of course, reduces hits for StackExchange, which is not in their best interest. It also means I don't provide answers to (or votes on) any of the Hot Network Questions those questions, as I don't see them. | |
| May 28, 2015 at 5:48 | answer | added | Christian Rau | timeline score: 13 | |
| May 28, 2015 at 3:27 | answer | added | Monica Cellio | timeline score: 7 | |
| May 27, 2015 at 20:27 | comment | added | Nobilis | @Jaydles Hahaha, duly noted (and action taken). | |
| May 27, 2015 at 20:27 | history | edited | Nobilis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 27, 2015 at 18:08 | comment | added | Jaydles Staff | So, um... this question about preventing spoilers has spoilers in hidden sections, but with no indiction of what they might spoil, making it impossible to know if one should avoid highlighting them. :P | |
| May 27, 2015 at 15:11 | history | edited | Robert Cartaino |
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| May 5, 2015 at 17:35 | comment | added | usr | Right now there are a lot of hard spoilers giving away information about the Avengers. See Spoilers in the sidebar are annoying which was (legitimately) closed as a dupe of this one. | |
| May 4, 2015 at 15:06 | comment | added | Christian Rau | The sites you're talking about definitely have a working and applied "no spoilers in titles policy", though. So I have a hard time seeing the actual problem you're trying to solve here. Of course this doesn't prevent users from writing spoiling titles occasionally, but this just happens and usually people jump in and improve the title. | |
| Jun 20, 2014 at 14:37 | comment | added | RomanSt | Seriously, this sucks. Please make it stop. "Why did X kill Y" can trivially destroy a season finale - all the while I'm just reading about Android's Dalvik cache. | |
| Mar 4, 2014 at 16:34 | comment | added | Travis J |
I like the idea of editing the spoiler out of the title. I don't think there should be any markup though. For example: What were Cypher's motives with regards to Morpheus?
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| Mar 4, 2014 at 16:32 | comment | added | Bill the Lizard |
I think spoilers would be a meta tag. It doesn't tell you what the question is about, but instead tells you some attribute of the question itself. It feels similar to the now deleted homework and subjective tags on Stack Overflow.
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| Mar 4, 2014 at 16:13 | comment | added | Nobilis | @LowerClassOverflowian I understand but beg to differ. People here have worked very hard to make sure that questions and answers are rigorously formatted and tagged. I don't see why this should be any different for questions that contain spoilers. | |
| Mar 4, 2014 at 16:12 | comment | added | Nobilis | @BilltheLizard Earlier I noticed a question with a major spoiler for The Matrix in the title and after checking it out it seems that it's not an issue on that network (I've seen the movie so that one wasn't a big deal but it could have applied to a movie I hadn't seen). I think a simple rule like that could also work out but I'm not aware of such a policy. | |
| Mar 4, 2014 at 16:09 | comment | added | Bill the Lizard | Is there a Hot Questions list somewhere that displays more than the title? If not, I think a courtesy "no spoilers in titles" rule (enforced through editing) should be sufficient. | |
| Mar 4, 2014 at 16:03 | history | asked | Nobilis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |