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  • I think it’s fine for you to put spoiler warnings on stuff if you want to. I also think it’s fine for someone to make a joke about you putting spoiler warnings on a post about a 70 year old movie.

    (On a personal note, I don’t think you could spoil 12 Angry Men by knowing the outcome. I feel like it’s somewhat predictable, but it’s the interactions that make it a great film anyway.)

    And, if someone has written a post/article about a movie or book or whatever, and I don’t want spoilers, I think it’s up to me to decide whether or not I should take the risk of reading the post. If I’m reading about something that is already out and there happens to be a spoiler in it, that’s on me. Hell, I don’t even like watching trailers if I don’t want a movie spoiled. They are notorious for showing the ending and best scenes.

    As you said, there is no time after a release that is fair game for spoilers - but to me that’s on the shoulders of the reader, not the writer, otherwise everything we write about will be a never-ending stream of spoiler warnings.

    The only exception, in my opinion, is people who deliberately try to fool people into reading/seeing spoilers, e.g. by putting the spoiler in a post title or as part of something unrelated. Fuck those guys.









  • Photos and videos often look a little dim and washed out on my phone, but this one is particularly affected. Did you convert from raw to jpg to post, without doing any adjustments? Darktable is free open source software that can help with this, though you might need to watch a tutorial. I only mention it because the photo has the potential to really pop.




  • Has the accuracy of the snapshots actually changed based on this edit? After all, if it’s factual information being presented…

    Yes! Quite literally, yes. They’re supposed to be an archive of what is on other sites. It doesn’t matter if the original site was, right, wrong, complete, incomplete, accurate, inaccurate, factual, unfactual, etc. If they change things, they’re editorializing and are no longer an archive, they’re new content - which is not the purpose people use them for.

    I do agree that it raises the issue of what other modifications there may be,

    That’s literally the point. It doesn’t matter how much you “understand the reasoning” (though you also think it’s childish and don’t agree with the actions). You can use it if you want to, no one is stopping you. The point is Wikipedia can’t trust it as a source of archived data and has every right to ban it.