Comments | marenfic: It's not about you. . . wtf entitlement?

marenfic

It's not about you. . . wtf entitlement?

Jan 12, 2010 14:37

SPOILERS

Some of us like them. We seek them out. We rehash them in spoiler communities with like-minded friends. Some of us hate them. We look forward to honest emotional surprises, to the WTFPOLARBEAR!!!! moments, to feeling a jolt of endorphins when we find out that Bruce Willis is dead. Neither one is right or wrong. They are preferences ( Read more... )

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stoney321 January 12 2010, 20:55:48 UTC

Yeah, that one particular comment from elsewhere had me baffled, too.

It's SO EASY to accommodate sometimes, I just don't see why others can't recognize that. Like I tell my kids: it's much easier to just say "I'm sorry" than to go into a 5 minute tirade blaming others for the problem.

Tell ya mama I axed how she durrin.

marenfic January 12 2010, 21:45:43 UTC

Some people cannot handle any kind of criticism, no matter how gently it is delivered. So they'd rather bluster about how they aren't wrong then just say sorry, honest mistake, and move on.

YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH! /Jack Nicholson

stoney321 January 12 2010, 22:30:40 UTC

I have an immediate: NO BLAME ALLOWED!! reaction to those shenanigans in my house. If only I ruled the world, Maren. IF ONLY.

(Tequila would be cheaper for starters. And naps would be mandatory.)

helygen January 12 2010, 20:59:37 UTC

Oh, well said!
*applauds*

marenfic January 12 2010, 21:43:44 UTC

Thankie ;)

dovil January 12 2010, 21:07:39 UTC

The thing that makes me laugh is that it's the same thing that crops up in endless headesking, whether it's about spoilers, or warnings, or NSFW or large pictures outside of cut-tags in certain comms - it's not like people are being told that they can't post any of the actual content on to the web, they're just being asked to be slightly more considerate and spend the extra two seconds it takes to make things user friendly by adding in a bit of html code or including a couple of extra words giving people the heads up.

But I can understand how that would be a horrible burden and would limit their freedoms unduly. Ha.

marenfic January 12 2010, 21:43:30 UTC

Freedom of speech, Dovil!

It's what this country is founded on (and all of the internets is USA)!

And people with any sense of what "freedom of speech" really means lol and lol.

greycoupon January 12 2010, 21:24:42 UTC

Oh where is the spoiler wank today?

marenfic January 12 2010, 21:40:41 UTC

No where big- just a post in a friend's journal and the comments that I'm reacting to.

a2zmom January 12 2010, 21:51:26 UTC

This is about Stoney, right? I was wtf when I rtead that. Rude. 100% rude.

I think my worst being spoiled moment was on the TWoP boards when someone posted that Dru was in the Angel episode where she shows up at the very end and turns Darla. I was so pissed, it ruined the entire surprise. Their lame excuse was that casting was not consdiered a spoiler. (Landau was purposely not listed in the credits so it would remain a surprise.)

So, in short, DO NOT SPOIL OTHERS.

marenfic January 14 2010, 13:25:19 UTC

Yes, completely.

I generally don't like to be spoiled because my joy in reading a book or watching a movie is living it in the moment and reacting to it honestly. I have a friend who won't read a book without reading the end first because she feels that will keep her from reading something she won't like. That boggles me. How do you know if the end is good unless you read all that lead up to it? But, whatever. She can do that all she wants as long as she doesn't tell me what the ending is :)