I loved it. It was AWESOME. Probably was not worth a huge however many book buildup, but something in me really loves a joke like that. heheheheheheh.

I just change the fonts to white. This was fine in Google Reader but evidently is not fine for Feedly (argh), so I might try to figure out some other way of hiding the spoiler text.

The level of spoilers varying from person to person is something that I have never figured out how to deal with sensibly. My own tolerance for spoilers is obviously very high indeed, and from that perspective, it can be difficult to calibrate what will be acceptable and not for other people.

You giggle about it like you thought it was dumb? Or you liked it?

I don’t mind spoilers much at all (as long as it is not very obvious one as in reveal about a murderer or something). The question is how do you express your thoughts in a review without spoilers…something always slips out. And what is a spoiler anyway? The definitions vary from person to person.

I really struggle with spoilers :(. Btw, I like what you do, hiding spoiler text? Do you use some special code, or do you just change the fonts to white?

It’s definitely hard to put into words! (I’m working on a general post where I tried just that and failed spectacularly too, so I hear you.)

I think… Spoilers don’t ruin stories for me. They alter the experience of reading them. If I know how a story ends, I pay attention to different things and aspects of a story. So any story which relies heavily on that first-read ignorance is more fun without spoilers because they’ll pack more of a punch that way.

That… probably doesn’t really help. ^-^; I read a short story a few days ago that’s a decent illustration, though. It’s a story that’s very much concerned with identity and the narrator discovering aspects of their identity. The twist struck me as a prety obvious one, really, but the intimate setting and tone of the piece had me tease out scraps of text to prove (or disprove) my suspicions. If I’d looked up spoilers for that story before reading it, I’d already have the confirmation I was now looking for in the text.

It’s not the best example, though. That was the only bit of the story I clicked with, so if I’d read spoilers for that I’d have abandoned the story in a heartbeat. That’s not true of all the stories where I find having no spoilers is more fun.

I think, perhaps, part of it is also a question of how strongly I feel about making up my own mind about a story without reading other people’s thoughts or opinions as much as I can. I’m more inclined to avoid spoilers when I want to form my own opinion without outside influences.

(And I’m making a ridiculous amount of typos and errors, so I’m going to leave it at that for the night. >> I’m clearly to sleepy for wording deep thoughts.)

Well, no great concern here. I actually don’t mind spoilers. I usually read them anyways! But I always give a heads-up at the top of my posts, if I think they might have spoilers others would want to avoid. I never had a problem with them showing through in google reader, just have that issue now with feedly, and haven’t been able to figure out why it does that…

Oh no! I’m so sorry! To everyone. Okay, that’s a good note to have. Do you think it would be okay if instead of saying “highlight blank text for spoilers” I said something like “There will be spoilers in this section”?

Do you have a sense of what types of stories are more fun for you with spoilers, and what types without? I’m always trying to put this into words for myself and failing. :p

Yep, same here. Although I suppose the same is true of a lot of the books I read.