I don’t know whether anyone else is bothered by this, or whether I’m just a goofball here. But I’m slightly annoyed when I see spoiler boxes used for things other than actual spoilers.
What I’m talking about are things that have nothing to do with the subject of the thread but are merely things like cursewords or the punchlines to a poster’s own little joke.
Speaking purely for myself, I would like to be more certain that when something is spoiler-boxed, it’s really a spoiler – something related to an aspect of a fictional work that might possibly give away something about that work to those who have not viewed, heard, or read that work.
I think you’re just being a goofball in this case. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a case in which it wasn’t clear from context whether or not the spoiler box contained an actual spoiler, nor have I ever heard of anyone sharing your concern.
In case it wasn’t clear, my calling Acsenray* a “goofball” was a reference to the first line in the OP; it could not have friendlier or more tongue-in-cheek in intent.
As to your specific question: no, of course not, but if what seems to me like a bizarre belief or concern was shared by a large number of apparently normal people, I would be a lot less likely to think of someone who shared that concern as a “goofball.” Wouldn’t you? Doesn’t the word generally imply, among other things, that someone is unusual? It’s why a Harold Camping-esque, apocalypse-spewing fanatic is a goofball, but a run of the mill Christian is not.
→ How does one pronounce this? I’ve been saying “ass-in-ray” in my head, but I’m guessing that’s wrong. And where does the name come from? Thanks.
I intentionally invited people to call my concern a “goofball” one, so that’s fair.
(I’ve never in my life pronounced my user name out loud, but in my mind it’s either “ak-sen-ray” or “action ray.” As to where it comes from, it comes from my brain.)
If absolutely no one is going to agree with my, I am going to feel myself turning into a crank on this issue. And then I will be on goofballs and crank and my ensuing drug problem with be this message board’s fault.
Lots. I’ve been vocal and annoying in the past regarding terrible use of spoiler boxes. When the boxes were first introduced, people didn’t have a clue as to what to do with them. They’d throw things in a spoiler box that either a) wasn’t a spoiler at all, b) speculation and/or c) not labeled. When I say “not labeled” I mean that it would be in a thread that doesn’t have a specific movie/show/book attached. So in a thread title something like “Things that you didn’t expect”, there’d be an unlabeled spoiler box with “Rosebud was his sled!” in it. But it would usually not be a culturally well-known spoiler, but something like a reveal from the latest Harry Potter book or something.
People have gotten a lot better since those dark ages - but you’re not alone.
I think the Spoiler boxes should be officially renamed “Don Jardine boxes” and the coding should be changed to something like [DonJardine] text [/DonJardine].
Because, of course, Don Jardine wrestled as The Spoiler, and was a great masked heel.
Humorous take on the situation, but you do realize that you just illustrated exactly what the OP is talking about, don’t you? What exactly would have been “spoiled” if you hadn’t used the spoiler box?
I’m with you. For one thing, I can’t even see spoiler boxes on my work computer, so if I want to see it, I have to go into the “reply with quote” screen, and it really pisses me off when it wasn’t an important spoiler at all but just some poster’s stupid idea of a joke. So I rarely if ever open spoilers at work, and probably miss a lot of things.
I don’t agree with the OP, but I do think that,in general,nested spoiler boxes are an invention of Satan,and anyone using them should be taken away and flogged.
