# New Cafe Society Policy **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 22, 2003, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cafe-society-policy/176712 "2003-05-22T02:05:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cafe-society-policy/176712/1 "2003-05-22T02:05:52Z")
[See here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=3451887#post3451887) Note : above link goes to an American Idol spoiler ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cafe-society-policy/176712/2 "2003-05-22T02:13:44Z")
There wasn’t a policy about spoilers before? ---
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cafe-society-policy/176712/3 "2003-05-22T02:16:19Z")
I think that you might want to advise anyone clicking on that link that it’s linking to a thread that spoils the ending of American Idol. I’m on Mountain time, and I really don’t give a flying wazoo about the show, but I thought maybe a warning would be appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![Phnord\_Prephect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df705f/32.png) [@Phnord\_Prephect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phnord_Prephect)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cafe-society-policy/176712/4 "2003-05-22T08:07:12Z")
Wait a minute… Eutychus, I have the uptmost respect for you. First I ever heard of you was in the “don’t post complete song lyrics” thread… the way you handled that was beautiful. A work of sheer majesty. Truly skillful and a graceful, memorable close. :::wipes nose clean::: That being said… you inform us of THIS new policy, about NOT PUTTING SPOILERS IN THE TITLES OF THREADS (that’s for anyone who, like me, tried to find the policy in THIS thread without clicking on your link) by linking us… DIRECTLY TO A SPOILER. It’s at the top of the page in the link… first thing I looked at! Granted, it’s American Idol. I couldn’t care less who won, without a frontal lobotomy. Someone had to say it. q;} ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cafe-society-policy/176712/5 "2003-05-22T10:35:08Z")
He did write quite clearly that the link went to an American Idol spoiler. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cafe-society-policy/176712/6 "2003-05-22T11:29:47Z")
That was the changed title. Look in the OP for the bolded first line. That was the original title. Most amusing point Phnord. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cafe-society-policy/176712/7 "2003-05-22T11:53:22Z")
um, **Euty** my blossom – you may want to make this a sticky? It was halfway down the page when I got here. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cafe-society-policy/176712/8 "2003-05-22T17:08:29Z")
American what? ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cafe-society-policy/176712/9 "2003-05-22T19:56:11Z")
For people who don’t want to read the other thread, here’s what was said: > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eutychus \* > **Moderator’s Notes** > > **Philosophocles** You know, I was thinking this afternoon that I really should make a sticky thread about revealing spoliers to tonight’s American Idol in the thread title because I knew some jerk was going to do it. But then I thought, nah … the people here are generally understanding and wouldn’t do something like that. > > So I’m going to start a policy here and I’m going to make this an official warning. You’ve been here long enough to know that this is something that YOU DO NOT DO! And the rest of you can take this as a warning as well. Revealing spoilers in a thread title is a sign of jerkdom and will no longer be tolerated! > > \< pissed off moderator hat off \> ---
**Author:** ![Stephi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Stephi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephi)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cafe-society-policy/176712/10 "2003-05-22T22:31:03Z")
Can I get a ruling as to how long has to elapse between the event occuring? For instance: As a thread title this would be very bad: Ruben won. But what about this thread title? Question re: Yoda’s death in Return of the Jedi You see what I mean? If you haven’t seen that movie by now, you’re probably not going to. 🙂 Where should the line be drawn? ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cafe-society-policy/176712/11 "2003-05-22T22:45:05Z")
According to **Eutychus** (from the “Please Be Considerate with Spoilers” thread): > [@](#): > > It’s also recommended that although a work may have been well known for quite a while, some may still be unaware of particular plot points of various works. There are new film students and literary critics being born every day and some may still be unaware that > > Rosebud was his sled > > or > > Heathcliff does not return > > or even that > > Abner Doubleday invented baseball and the layout of the field is a recreation of the compass and square of Masonic symbolism. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cafe-society-policy/176712/12 "2003-05-23T01:50:33Z")
Abner Doubleday? The Doubleday story is an urban legend ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cafe-society-policy/176712/13 "2003-05-23T16:10:44Z")
Yeah, I know that. It was a quote! 🙂 Anyway, it was addressed in the other thread. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cafe-society-policy/176712/14 "2003-05-23T21:28:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lisa-go-Blind \* > \*\*Yeah, I know that. It was a quote! 🙂 > > Anyway, it was addressed in the other thread. \*\* And it was a joke, even then. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2003, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cafe-society-policy/176712/15 "2003-05-23T21:57:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eutychus \* > \*\*And it was a joke, even then. \*\* Yeah, that’s what I figured. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cafe-society-policy/176712/16 "2003-05-24T16:21:21Z")
Omigod, smilies _die_ when you highlight them!! ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2003, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cafe-society-policy/176712/17 "2003-05-24T16:25:54Z")
Or at least they’ve very unhappy. Highlighting must be painful if you’re electronic. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cafe-society-policy/176712/18 "2003-05-26T07:08:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*Omigod, smilies _die_ when you highlight them!! \*\* When _I_ highlight them, they turn Asian. ---
**Author:** ![Tradnor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cab0a1/32.png) [@Tradnor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tradnor)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cafe-society-policy/176712/19 "2003-05-26T19:08:26Z")
Please also remember the second post in the “Please Be Considerate with Spoilers” thread: > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Number Six \* > \*\*When posting spoilers, either using the spoiler tag or otherwise, it’s helpful to identify what artwork you are discussing. This helps the reader decide whether or not to read the spoiler. For example, this: > > In _The Velveteen Rabbit_ > > The rabbit comes to life at the end. > > is much more helpful than this: > > The rabbit in _The Velveteen Rabbit_ comes to life at the end.\*\* ---
**Author:** ![sjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@sjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sjc)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cafe-society-policy/176712/20 "2003-05-29T00:12:32Z")
Has anyone noticed the happy-smiley-goes-to-pained-smiley effect before? It’s odd, because, for the first time, when I hilighted a happy smiley I noticed it looked sad and then right after that there were several posts commenting upon it. I’m kind of surprised I never noticed it before. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-cafe-society-policy/176712.md?page=2)