Might as well face it, I'm addicted to Spoiler Boxes

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I can’t help it. I see 'em, I click on them. Almost doesn’t matter what they’re for. Oh sure, sometimes I can refrain, like if there’s a big warning before it along the lines of “MASSIVE ROTK SPOILER” or some such, but usually I have to click the damn box.

I have to know, you see? I have to know. I can’t live without knowing what it is you’re trying to say on the sly. Is it something I shouldn’t know? Are all your spoiler belong to me?

And the spoiler itself could have no relevance to me. A Doctor Who spoiler? I’ll click it. A pregnancy spoiler? I’m there. A spoiler about Madagascarian rebel forces taking over bakeries? I gotta know.

This compulsion gets me in trouble sometimes, like when I ignore the description of the spoiler (e.g. - “And then in OotP, Harry …”) and click it anyway… GAHHHHHHH! Curses and bad words! Hoisted by my own petard, I now know what I shouldn’t know.

You know?

I don’t know.

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I am not usually tempted by spoilers, but when I got ‘His dark Materials’ I did a search, found a thread, saw a spoiler, looked at it. It was a major plot point about the end of the third book. If I could have kicked my ass I would have.

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Ah, a kindred spirit.

It’s just the sense of forbidden fruit, I guess. There’s some secret project going on at work that has a code name. It’s an upper management hush-hush type thing. When I first caught wind of it, I was dying to know. Not because I feared for my job or anything, just because I wanted to know.

-scout, who likes to be “in the know”

Although I sometimes regret it later…

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Here’s the question, though. Is there a 12-step program for this?

Can I be weaned off clicking on spoiler boxes?

Should I busy myself with clicking on links and sundry buttons?

Should I go cold turkey?

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Let me tell you some things about Spoiler Boxes (warning do not look unless you can handle the truth!)

[spoiler]1) They are quite addictive.
2) There is no 12 step program.
3) You WILL look, you can’t help it.

I was going to put “Hi Opal!” in the number 3 spot but decided its been done to death.[/spoiler]

Don’t say I didn’t warn you :eek:

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GAHHHHHHHHH!!!

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Does this mean, dan, that

[Jack Nicholson]

YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!

[/Jack Nicholson]

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Not me. :wink:

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Really? Odd. I hate’em. If I see them, I ignore them. If there are several in a row in a thread, I just leave the thread.

If it isn’t worth saying plainly, I don’t need to know it.

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Gorgon Heap


is a big poopyhead.

scout, my dog tells me I can’t handle the poop.

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The only spoiler boxes I refrain from looking into are ones which are labeled as spoilers to some book I want to read or movie I want to see, but don’t want spoiled for me. If it’s about some experience I know I’ll never have, I go right ahead and look.

The one use of spoiler boxes that I don’t like is when people don’t tell you outside of the box what the spoiler is about. My curiosity always gets the better of me in those cases, and I look anyway, sometimes causing me to spoil something I didn’t want spoiled.

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Gah! You spoiled it for me, Arcite!

dan, I don’t think you want to handle the poop. No one will ever want to shake your hand again.

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Yes, so in that sense, he’s right… but I do have to handle it. Someone has to dispose of it!

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It’s like cut tags in LJ… I have to look unless there’s a warning or description of the contents attached. (if it’s something I want to see, then I won’t look… but otherwise…)

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I can’t help it either. Especially if they are heavily guarded with warnings. The worst is when I start highlitng it slowly word by word to try to stop me.