User blog:CartoonFan14/Spoilers

I've seen it before, someone complains about an episode being spoiled for them by a comment or blog title, and someone responds with something like "don't come on the page then, it's your fault for coming on here." And this really annoys me when I see it here.

Now, before you tell someone that again (In Bill Nye's voice:) Consider the folowing.

The thing is, you're just automatically assuming they went on the page and then complained, but tell me, have you ever considered the recent wiki activity page, you know the one, that shows all the edits, including the comments? If they go on there, to see things like new replies to a forum they are a part of, and see your comments, or your blog, with a title that literally is just the main spoiler of the episode, do you really think it's their fault, for unintentionally seeing them, when they very well could have been trying to see somthing totally different?

Another issue I have with the "stay off the page" argument, is that you're saying that the spoilers are limited to just the page, but when the spoiler is as game changing as today's was, it's all over, it's not only on the page, but there's blogs being made, message walls with conversations happening about how unbelieveable it is, and if it got that bad, talk of it could possibly appear on other pages, especially pages involving the characters that the spoiler may pertain to. All of which is featured on the recent activity page, so telling them to stay off all that is basically saying don't use the wiki until you see the episode, which isn't a smart thing to say.

That's why I hate the "Stay off the page to avoid spoilers" argument, if you think I'm wrong about this, feel free to share your side on this in the comments, and we can have a little debate. That's all for now guys, thanks for taking the time to read my little opinion on this.