doh, someone just bought me a copy

Quote from: Dave

QuoteThe problem is that the local forum moderators have to examine every thread in their forum that has a new post, which causes problems if they have recorded something and want to watch it later.

I can see your point ref: how this may be an issue but surely you dont *have* to read every single post - Im a member of a couple of other forums with rather large established communities - tis impossible to moderate by reading everything so a lot of reliance is placed on the users to report posts to mods & this works just as well as no regular users on any forums tollerate spam artists or trolls. It would certainly work if you simply avioded reading spoiler threads you didnt want to read.

I reckon you can safely assume that any correctly titled film/book/tv spoiler thread isnt going to contain an advert for viagra or a 419 scam and any flame war that errupts between some users most probably would get reported so it shouldnt really be much of an issue - there isnt much risk of anything going wrong simply because youve not read the occasional thread that contains spoilers for a film/book youve not read/seen yet.

I do read every post on the forums, it isnt that difficult, most days there arent that many.

And I have spotted some of advertising posts within a thread. I dont include the ones from the BBC in that either. Even with the option to hide spoilers it still might be a problem.

QuoteIm assuming youve not read the book yet either?

I have a set of LOTR books, they are far too boring and dated for me to get more than half way through the first one. My father would have loved them though!

I was left a couple of first edition Harry Potter books by my mother, Ive never read either and Im not going to read this one. I just dont like the style. Dont know why but most childrens books seem too closely shepherded towards the conclusion, as if pushed. There can only ever be one outcome.

OK Hermione turning out to be a lesbo and doing off with Rons sister for a life of S&M was a surprise but, whatever rocks her boat.


I have read Terry Pratchetts childrens books, I would recommend them to anyone. Only you can save Mankind has one of the best plot twists ever. Its never quite believable if you know about computers, but that doesnt matter at all, at least not for me.

Quote from: SeriousI do read every post on the forums, it isnt that difficult, most days there arent that many.

that was kind of my point - i.e. on other forums where there are too many to read the members still report trolls/spam pretty quickly - thus the odd spoiler thread that you really really dont want to read shouldnt pose much of a problem. Especially since you read all the other posts on all the other threads.

They dont here though, they just heckle the poster to death!  :mrgreen:

Some help here? What are these;

Death Eaters (bad dudes? Human?)
whorecrutches (sp) (parts of the bad dudes soul in objects? Why?)
Dementors (Ghosts?)
The stag and the otter (Did Harry leave his stag behind to cover their retreat? Is the stag invincible or something?)
Snape - an (ex?)teacher turned to the dark side?
House Elf - does this dude obey anyone or only his master?



Can we have a spoiler thread proper?