HEY< NO OLYMPIC SPOILERS ASSHOLES!

[Bennyboy]

Fuck.

[GodlessBiker]

1. Agreed. Put all those asinine posts in one thread that people can choose to go into.

[HuckleB]

2. If you don't want spoilers, don't go online.

It's that simple. Please don't start this BS argument again.

[fishwax]

3. meh -- it's also quite simple to put a spoiler alert in a subject line

and leave the spoiler for the body of the text.

[HuckleB]

4. It's also pointless.

[fishwax]

5. no, it's courteous

[HuckleB]

7. What would be courteous is to not throw a temper tantrum because one went online and ......

... shock of shocks, saw results from a competition.

[fishwax]

8. Yes, that would be courteous. It would also be courteous to keep spoilers out of subject lines.

Neither one is particularly difficult.

[HuckleB]

12. If one is online, it's actually mildly difficult to avoid spoilers of any kind.

Thus, I find it odd that many DUers still push this argument.

[fishwax]

15. Actually, it wouldn't be difficult at all if one poster would simply edit their subject lines

Seriously, not difficult at all.

[Lizzie Poppet]

17. It's fairly simple when a handful of idiot 4chan refugees aren't being d-bags.

Funny how that works...

[Skinner]

10. I think both sides have some responsibility here.

Posting spoilers in thread titles isn't cool. If you want to be considerate of others, don't post them in our thread titles. And if you want to be super considerate, you should put a spoiler warning in your thread title.

HAVING SAID THAT, If you are someone who wants to avoid seeing spoilers, you should not be hanging out on a public message board or other social media. Because chances are that someone is going to post a spoiler, and you are going to see it.

It's just common courtesy and common sense.

[HuckleB]

11. Maybe early on in the Internet age, but not anymore.

What I find interesting is that, not that long ago, results are all anyone could get. We wanted them as soon as we could get them. I just think it's time to let the Internet be what it is, and, if you don't want to know something, avoid it. I mean, it's probably a good thing to take a break now and then, anyway.

That said, I must offer my sincere thanks to you, Skinner, for all you do for DU. You have created a wonderful place.

[Skinner]

14. It's really not that difficult to put spoilers in the message body rather than the subject line.

Knowing that some people do not want to see spoilers, it seems like the considerate thing to do.

If one values being considerate, then it is a no-brainier.

[HuckleB]

18. Knowing that anyone who goes online is already ensuring that they are likely to see results...

... makes that such an antiquated, soap opera request, that I'm just dumbfounded by the drama.

Also, having an individual refer to other DUers as Assholes in the title of his/her OP seems far worse than someone posting the result from an Olympic event that was on live television.

[Posteritatis]

19. Skinner disagrees. (nt)

[HuckleB]

22. Cool.

Can you tell me logical fallacy you just used?

[11 Bravo]

21. And if you don't want to follow Skinner's rules, get the fuck off his website!

It's that simple. This BS argument is over (and by the way, you lost it).

[HuckleB]

23. LOL!

You keep telling yourself that.

[11 Bravo]

24. Easily amused, aren't you? Perhaps when Skinner responded "SELF-DELETE THAT SHIT RIGHT NOW!"

to the poster of a spoiler thread, he was being a little bit too subtle for you.

LOL indeed!

[NYC_SKP]

26. AUTOMATED MESSAGE: Results of your Jury Service (see #4) Ha!!!

AUTOMATED MESSAGE: Results of your Jury Service

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At Sat Jul 28, 2012, 01:26 PM an alert was sent on the following post:

And if you don't want to follow Skinner's rules, get the fuck off his website!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1037382

REASON FOR ALERT:

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate. (See <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=aboutus#communitystandards" target="_blank">Community Standards</a>.)

ALERTER'S COMMENTS:

This is clear abuse of another DUer.

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Sat Jul 28, 2012, 01:35 PM, and the Jury voted 3-3 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT and said: Take a walk before you hit the send button.
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No more disruptive and rude than posting spoilers, and Skinner did say not to do it. Of course, he could clean up his language a bit, but I digress.
Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT and said: No explanation given
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: Harsh language does not in and of itself make for abuse. As HuckleB might say; 'don't go online if you don't want to see harsh language'.
Juror #5 voted to HIDE IT and said: Seriously, is that the way you want to be treated yourself? We all must learn to act decently even when we think the other person is soooo wrong.
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: In this instance I will let it stay. "Get the fuck off" is less insulting than "fuck off", and given the context, well, I have to agree with the comment (though the fuck wasn't really necessary).

Thank you very much for participating in our Jury system, and we hope you will be able to participate again in the future.

[gopiscrap]

29. Fully agree

just goes to show we value sport more than actualy what is going on in society and working to fix it. And before anybody gives me a message about being on the internet, I have been campaigning since 730 this morning...message sent fropm phone while doorbelling.

[nclib]

6. Completely agree.

I think I'll have to avoid DU in the afternoon and evening because for some people it's just about them. How hard would it be to put a spoiler alert in the headline. Assholes is right.

[pinboy3niner]

9. HEY<NO ASSHOLES OLYMPIC SPOILERS

No Romney!!!

[myrna minx]

13. I think it's great to have threads discussing the competitions, but spoilers in the subject line

is poor form. You have the choice to click a link, you don't have a choice to un-see a subject line.

[Posteritatis]

20. Yeah. I'm baffled at the people doing so deliberately. What're they trying to accomplish? (nt)

[MineralMan]

16. Well, I won't be posting any results at all, so

no worries about my posting spoilers. If I really care who won, and want to know exactly at the time it happened, there are other sites I can visit where real-time results will be posted. So, not posting spoilers here seems to me to be a reasonable request. I'd ask that you post that request in a reasonable way, though, rather than call people assholes.

[yewberry]

27. People have been posting results in the subject line.

And then refusing to edit.

[myrna minx]

28. Someone was posting winners in the *subject* line, not in the in the body of a post.

You had no choice but to see the results. It was poor form and the poster was called out for it.