How do we feel about "Spoilers"?

spoilers in a thread title are abusive.

but aside from that, discussions about films presume they've been viewed. that's a reasonable assumption.

I love them. The plot is always the least interesting part of a movie. Spoilers help discourage silly plot twists and surprise endings.

It's also definitely a free speech issue. A lot of forums ban them. If you want to insulate yourself from information about a movie, it should be your responsibility to insulate yourself from information about a movie. You shouldn't feel so privlidged that you can just dump your burden onto other people and restrict their freedom to discuss on a discussion board.

Usually people will give warning that there is a spoiler, like *****spoiler***** or something like that, hopefully.

It's best to avoid posting spoilers just out of respect to other users
Most users here are pretty good about that

And if you want to avoid them certainly stay off boards until you've seen the show or movie! Some people spoil something completely by accident and without ill intent (it can happen when we all get to gabbing)

A fair warning must always be there. Who decides how long a movie/TV show can be spoiled after its release? Some may feel one week. Others may feel one year.

Back in the day, IMDb had a way of dealing with spoilers, and thankfully, moviechat has followed suit.

All one has to do is type [ spoiler ] at the beginning and [ /spoiler ] at the end of of the spoiler (without the spaces between the brackets, of course) and the spoiler becomes blacked out. Then all the reader has to do is move the cursor over the blacked out part and it becomes readable.

Here, I'll show you ... [spoiler]You see, it's not that difficult![/spoiler]

Sadly however, there are posters who are just plain lazy, thus they won't do that little extra work so as not to spoil something for the rest.
Oh well, such is life.

P.S. I guess I should point out that here at moviechat, you can only place one blacked out spoiler per post. The same holds true for italics and bold. IMDb allowed multiple uses of them per post, not to mention a much simpler method of attaching emojis.
Ahh, the good old days.

Anything is free game on the movie board where said movie is being discussed. You don't want spoilers, you shouldn't be there. But dropping spoilers for films on unrelated boards and general discussion pages is seriously shitty. I don't want to be talking about Gordon Ramsay and have Sixth Sense spoiled for me scrolling through the comments.