# Spoiler Warning! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 15, 2001, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-warning/76364 "2001-08-15T10:27:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sewalk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@sewalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sewalk)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-warning/76364/1 "2001-08-15T10:27:29Z")
[This](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1511995) thread got me thinking. What is the SDMB statute of limitations on spoiler warnings? Will someone get mad if I say that “Rosebud” was the sled? That Dorothy makes it back to Kansas? I can understand such warnings about first-run films, but if something has been out on home video for five years, does anyone really have cause to get upset about potential spoilers? ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-warning/76364/2 "2001-08-15T10:50:19Z")
I suppose 10 years is a good, round number. After a decade, if you haven’t seen the movie, you’re probably not gonna care… I guess you can go with five years if it was a lousy movie, or if nobody cared about it. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-warning/76364/3 "2001-08-15T12:19:25Z")
Or, if you’re gonna discuss the ending of something, why not take the 10 seconds it takes to hit 15 characters (including the space) and put SPOILER WARNING in your title or the first line. What does it hurt? The point is that just because, say…Citizen Kane is a classic that’s been around for decades, it’s still possible that someone hasn’t seen it. I first saw Hitchcock’s Suspicion about 3 years ago and I’d have been pissed if someone ruined it. I don’t see the harm in adding the warning. Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-warning/76364/4 "2001-08-15T12:21:57Z")
In IMHO, putting “WARNING-SPOILER!” in the thread title, or in bold letters at the top of the post, is good enough. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-warning/76364/5 "2001-08-15T18:35:19Z")
A stupid _sled_??? That’s all it was? Man, that’s a dissappointment. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-warning/76364/6 "2001-08-15T21:40:56Z")
Well yeah, but the sled was Luke’s father. And was really a woman in drag. ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-warning/76364/7 "2001-08-15T22:23:10Z")
A dead woman in drag, you mean. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-warning/76364/8 "2001-08-15T23:44:14Z")
One vote here for keeping the words “Spoiler Warning” in the thread title, no matter how old the movie may be. It takes me a while to work my way around to seeing some movies, more than 10 years sometimes, and I’m still annoyed that a while ago someone here at this end “spoilered” _The Crying Game_ for me. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2001, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-warning/76364/9 "2001-08-16T00:46:29Z")
Isn’t Kansas a bit warm for sledding, though? ---
**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2001, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-warning/76364/10 "2001-08-16T01:09:40Z")
The sled was made of _people._ ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2001, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-warning/76364/11 "2001-08-16T03:19:17Z")
It’s really Earth. There’s a half-buried sled. Damn you all to hell! She’s really a man. She has a sled. The sled lives with his mother. The one-sledded man did it. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2001, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-warning/76364/12 "2001-08-16T21:05:22Z")
The butler did it. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2001, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-warning/76364/13 "2001-08-16T21:34:58Z")
_All_ the butlers did it. ---
**Author:** ![Protesilaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Protesilaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Protesilaus)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2001, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-warning/76364/14 "2001-08-18T04:21:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Montfort \* > \*\*A dead woman in drag, you mean. \*\* Killed in the opening scene, no less. But we don’t find out until the end. ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2001, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoiler-warning/76364/15 "2001-08-18T12:58:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Protesilaus \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Montfort \* > > \*\*A dead woman in drag, you mean. \*\* > > Killed in the opening scene, no less. But we don’t find out until the end. \*\* … When we find out that her new friend is the one that killed her!