Is it always necessary to warn of 'Spoilers' in an article?

People are retards and they like to complain and feel like victims. Many legit GOT threads were anchored because people simply wanted to complain. It didn't matter that no other threads were being made. And nothing else was being discussed. And the threads had good discussion.

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After 24hrs..there is no spoilers especially season finales… if you haven't seen it by then too fricking bad. Those are the John Hein rules and they are canon.

What makes me really angry is when people put up a thread about 40 or 50 yr old movies and say spoilers…. It's 50fricking years old!!

24 hours?! Jesus.

So in your mad Max dystopian view of the ideal internet, everyone would just run around spoiling everything with no consequences? You're everything that is wrong with America, I hope someone breaks into your house and spoils your mother's Cheers rerun and I hope she cries.

I think it depends on the situation. For instance, Entertainment Weekly (who has a direct line to HBO content) has in the past presented an article as a "preview" of an upcoming season and busted out some spoilers in it without warning. One would assume a preview would be a non-spoilery deal.

My two spoiler gripes right now:

1) Companies like EW, Variety, etc that less than an hour after an episode throw up a "Lets discuss who died this week" article tag line with a picture of who died. It doesn't effect me for, say, Game of Thrones that I watch live but when a billion other shows have been put on Sunday nights to compete it can be hard to avoid spoilers for those.

2) The same issue as #1 about a Netflix season finale (see Orange is the New Black) less than 24 hours after the season fricking released. I get people binge watch all 13 some odd episodes but come on?

What an offensive post.

Televesion review articles with spoilers are still a relatively new phenomenon. In the 80s and 90s they didn't write stuff up that contained spoilers, the networks would have freaked. This is a social media phenomenon where people can't just enjoy a show, they have to read about it immediately after and overanalyze it. It's why so many people hated the Season 1 ending of True Detective because they got too caught up in stuff that wasn't actually a part of the show, or wasn't as important as they thought.

Anyway, the people old enough to remember how things were do not always expect spoilers in a tv show review, so it is put in there for them.

You know your society is either 1) way too prosperous or 2) way too sensitive when "spoilers" is actually a thing...a thing at which people get enormously pissed and upset about I might add. I never remember this being a thing until the last 5-8 yrs or so. Used to somebody would say, "Oh yeah, Darth Vader is Luke's dad." If you didn't see it in the theater, too bad.

I had almost all of the first 3 seasons of Game of Throne's big moments ruined for me because I was stupid enough to get on youtube and watch the previews for the next episodes and some moron book reader would always have, "yeah, he gets his head chopped off" or something in the comments. Yes, the dude who did it was an a-hole, but I was a fool for going to those sites...I got what I deserved. All one has to do is stay off of those types of sites for a day or so until he's seen his episode. It's really not a difficult concept to understand.