# What sort of idiot puts spoilers in a thread title?

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [May 12, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sort-of-idiot-puts-spoilers-in-a-thread-title/174713 "2003-05-12T15:51:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sort-of-idiot-puts-spoilers-in-a-thread-title/174713/21 "2003-05-14T14:30:16Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Grace \*  
> \*\*Sure, it’s unfortunate to have listed the winner in the spoiler title, but does this really warrant a pit thread? I hope you don’t get a hangnail or you’ll end up calling yourself out in the pit. \*\*

Maybe people will stop posting pit threads when other people stop putting spoilers in thread titles?

I’m sure it was an honest mistake, and I hope everybody will be more thoughtful in the future.

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**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sort-of-idiot-puts-spoilers-in-a-thread-title/174713/22 "2003-05-14T14:46:58Z")

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Well, I didn’t get a chance to be spoiled by the SDMB, because I got it ruined by Yahoo and CNN. I was traveling that night, but my faithful Tivo recorded it. I tried so hard to avoid finding out, yet the second I logged on, my homepage spoiled it.

Losers.

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**Author:** ![Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horrifying_Howler_Monkey)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-sort-of-idiot-puts-spoilers-in-a-thread-title/174713/23 "2003-05-14T15:48:04Z")

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I work nights, so I had to record the final episode of last seasons survivor. I get home, rewind the tape, and while I am waiting for it to finish I check my phone messages. First message is from a friend of mine, first words out of her mouth “I can’t believe won!.” ARG.

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