Wow. Has nobody on here
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carl_johnson-1 — 10 years ago(September 16, 2015 09:01 AM)
Even before the Message Boards section, there's the Cast, Storyline, Did You Know? (with Trivia, Goofs, Quotes, etc.), Frequently Asked Questions, and User Reviews, ALL of which contain spoilers. So it seems dishonest to blame message board users for spoiling, when essentially the ENTIRE PAGE has spoilers.
The more you scroll down, the more you'll be spoiled. At least the Message Board section is last.
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Spielburger — 10 years ago(September 16, 2015 05:11 PM)
Even before the Message Boards section, there's the Cast, Storyline, Did You Know? (with Trivia, Goofs, Quotes, etc.), Frequently Asked Questions, and User Reviews, ALL of which contain spoilers. So it seems dishonest to blame message board users for spoiling, when essentially the ENTIRE PAGE has spoilers.
I cannot speak for the other sections, but as the person largely responsible for the
Triangle
FAQ I have to hold my hand up and say I do what I can, but I've found from experience that this sort of film is extremely difficult to discuss in any meaningful way without spoilers. I once posted a review of the
Black Mirror
episode "White Bear" here WRT its similarities to
Triangle
, and virtually the entire (rather long) post was a black spoiler tag. No matter how hard you try, it's easy to miss something: the most recent update to the FAQ page was by another user who removed a spoiler for
Timecrimes
that I'd accidentally left in.
At least the FAQ answers are on a separate page that you can only get to via a Spoiler Alert on both the Home and FAQ pages. I did make some attempt to use spoiler tags as well, but found that they could often render the entry unreadable.
The real problem is the titles. I think that over the years we've become a little lazy and careless on this board, but it
is
possible to hide a thread's topic within the main text (The OP for this thread is a good example).
However it's much harder in the FAQ where the questions
need
to be fairly detailed if they're to serve the purpose of having a FAQ in the first place. This wouldn't matter so much if it wasn't for IMDb displaying a random selection of FAQ questions on the Home page. Looking over the current FAQ page, I think the only question heading that could be considered a genuine spoiler is the one regarding
"The sinister and determined Jess"
. Seriously: if anyone can think of a better way to word this question while keeping it relevant, I'd love to hear your suggestions (although it's probably best if you post them on the FAQ's "Discuss" page) -
carl_johnson-1 — 10 years ago(September 17, 2015 09:20 AM)
Hey, don't take it personally. I was speaking more in general, for all movies and their IMDB pages. I'm just of the mindset that when you visit a film's IMDB page, you'll be spoiled. And if you start scrolling down, you be even more and more spoiled the more you scroll.
So keep the FAQs as they are. It would really be silly to see every movie page with a "Why did You-Know-Who do You-Know-What in the You-Know-Where" question in their FAQ. -
tbonesays — 10 years ago(September 16, 2015 05:40 PM)
This isn't an M Night Shamylan film where you only have to spoil the last 5 minutes. This is a triple time loop exhibition where each scene is intertangled with the other two loops. We simply cannot analyze the film and block out the spoilers and expect to end up with an intelligible post.
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Thought_Criminal_J62377 — 9 years ago(July 13, 2016 05:58 PM)
you read the user reviews, if you wanna find out if a movie is good or not, you don't read the message boards, duh!
user reviews: spoiler free (or spoiler alerts), right on the movie's main page, just scroll down.
message boards: a place people can discuss a movie they've finished watching, you have to click the link to get there.
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crissttigaldames — 9 years ago(October 30, 2016 09:18 PM)
This is the same for pretty much every movie here. Someone complaining about spoilers in a message board where people discuss the movie in question
What do they expect to find exactly?.
Now, once in one of these frums someone spoiled the ending of a DIFFERENT movie to the one being discussed ("Like when in X movie the lead diez at the end"). THAT'S a dick move. -
whatsthisnow — 9 years ago(November 28, 2016 08:19 AM)
Yeah, IMDB is crawling with trolls, neckbeards, and pubescent teens. Doesn't make for an environment where common decency prevails. Of all the forums I've been on for books, games, films, tv, and so on, people have used spoiler tags at least as a courtesy, if not for it being a forum rule.
As it happens it's an option when flagging posts, so it's evidently against IMDB's rules.