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About spoilers after the show is broadcast?

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StrugglingAlbion · 18/12/2017 15:09

Not a TAAT, but inspired by a current thread in which the OP was called a "dick" and a "massive cunt" for posting a thread revealing the winner of last nights Apprentice final. I have been meaning to start this thread for ages so here is an opportunity.

I think the acceptability of this is a rather divisive issue, and perhaps I'll be flamed, but my view is that, once the show in question has been broadcast, it becomes ok to discuss the result online. Therefore, spoilers are acceptable.

In fact it is only a spoiler to a person who has for whatever reason happened to have not watched the show. It's not really a spoiler in the true sense of the word i.e. a reveal of what is going to happen in an upcoming show. Proper spoiler threads should carry a warning.

If you don't want to see spoilers I think it is entirely your responsibility to avoid social media or threads on here or wherever that could contain spoilers. It is surely foreseeable that a thread today about the Apprentice might reveal last nights winner?

That being said, I probably would have or a spoiler warning had it been my thread, to avoid the overreaction wrath of many posters. But that would have been my call and I don't believe I would have been wrong not to do so.

OP posts:
honeyroar · 18/12/2017 20:15

I got home from work at 10pm on Saturday, made a drink, put on my recording of Strictly and opened Facebook while the theme tune and intro ran. The first thing I saw was a post about the Strictly winner! I was gutted, but had nobody to blame but myself. I kicked myself all night for being so stupid as to go on Social media! Nobody else to blame but myself. I'd have been a total nutcase if I'd started ranting at the people that had posted!!

MrsFezziwig · 18/12/2017 20:16

UrgentScurryfunge on some grim level I’m lost in admiration for someone who had just given birth and was in HDU but whose main concern seemed to be not having the winner of The Apprentice revealed to her in advance Confused

ArbitraryName · 18/12/2017 20:18

I'm the sort of person who half way through a book will read the last page to make sure the hero survives. I love spoilers, I can't cope with suspense.

Me too. I will look up the plot summary for a movie before watching it. I actually enjoy it more if I know what’s going to happen.

I keep quiet about what I learn because DH is spoilerphobic.

steppemum · 18/12/2017 20:49

it's good manners/courtesy bollocks to not discuss tv shows because people might not have seen them? Surely it's far better manners to knot call someone a cunt because you didn't feel you should stay off a thread that discusses a programme that has already aired?

no-one is saying don't discuss them, but just say in the title the thread is about bake-off/apprentice etc. That is pretty simple, then you are free to go ahead and say what you like.

BoneyBackJefferson · 18/12/2017 21:29

One of the first things that you learn as a shift worker is not to talk about the previous nights tv (or in some cases weeks) tv till the previous shift has gone home.

and one of the first things that most people used to know is that on forums you put spoiler in the title for those that don't want to read about the shows/films.

There are several films that I don't want to know about, so I don't go in to the film section, but there is always an idiot that will post about it it general, or chat or AIBU.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 18/12/2017 21:35

but there is always an idiot that will post about it it general, or chat or AIBU.

Charming. If you don't want to know stay away from social media, it's not compulsory.

grannytomine · 18/12/2017 21:37

ArbitraryName glad it isn't just me.

Glumglowworm · 18/12/2017 21:39

i always miss the Apprentice final because they change it to a Sunday evening and I don’t realise til it’s too late (I watch very little live tv so don’t see adverts for it). It’s very annoying of the BBC!

Tbh I think once it’s aired it’s fair game but it would be nice for a day or two after when posting online or having discussions with friends to make it clear you’re about to talk about the results so people can avoid if they want.

BoneyBackJefferson · 18/12/2017 21:41

ChardonnaysPrettySister

Charming. If you don't want to know stay away from social media, it's not compulsory.

Maybe people should learn to post in the correct areas?

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 18/12/2017 21:51

A chat about a programme that's already aired is perfectly well placed in Chat.

An AIBU discussion about something that happens in a programme that's already aired is not out of place on the AIBU board.

BoneyBackJefferson · 18/12/2017 21:55

ChardonnaysPrettySister

yes it is, but it doesn't take long to put the title or spoiler in the thread title.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 18/12/2017 21:57

Why?

It's not a spoiler after the programme has aired.

BoneyBackJefferson · 18/12/2017 21:58

its a spoiler if you haven't seen it.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 18/12/2017 22:03

No, what matters is whether it's aired or not.

Dairymilkmuncher · 18/12/2017 22:04

I feel like the only one not to realise the apprentice final was on at the weekend and not on Wednesday like I was expecting Sad

Hours watching the show for the bbc to post on Facebook who the winner was before I had even realised I had missed it

BoneyBackJefferson · 18/12/2017 22:08

ChardonnaysPrettySister

I would agree if its an old episode, but if its only just been aired then its only polite to put spoiler in the title.

paxillin · 18/12/2017 22:09

Where do you draw a line, a week, a year, forever? Do I have to put a spoiler warning in for the outcome of the 2010 football world cup? Harry Potter? Hamlet?

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 18/12/2017 22:11

But once it's aired it's old.

Look, I'm not in the habit of starting threads like this, but it's up to you to avoid them.

Donnerkebabbler · 18/12/2017 22:13

Some of you tv watchers need to grow up

Lockheart · 18/12/2017 22:16

If seeing a spoiler is amongst the worst things that can happen to you (causing you to lash out verbally at another poster) then you live a very charmed life indeed.

It is polite to indicate what the thread is about, but there's no need to swear at other people if your TV show is "spoiled". If it's that important to you then watch it rather than chatting on forums! I appreciate not everyone can watch something the instant it's broadcast but if it's truly so utterly crucial to your life then no doubt you can make time in the next 48 hours to see it (having to avoid social media for 48 hours is no hardship).

There was a Star Wars thread earlier (title actually said 'Star Wars') and people were still being horrible to the OP because there was a spoiler for the new film.

If you don't want to get wet don't jump in the puddle.

PavlovaPlease · 18/12/2017 22:18

I got told off years ago on MN for revealing the murderer in some TV series that had aired months ago! OP, yanbu

Quartz2208 · 18/12/2017 22:20

I think if it has the programme name in the title it’s fine. I was on strictly and I’m a celeb threads and either read as watched live or went after

PiffleandWiffle · 18/12/2017 22:42

To all the moaners -

If you don't watch the show when it's broadcast then to be honest it's absolute tough shit if you see or hear the result elsewhere.

I suggest you all live in a box & have no contact with the real world - you can't expect the rest of us to stop talking about stuff just because you couldn't be arsed to watch the show at the same time as the rest of us!!

PiffleandWiffle · 18/12/2017 22:44

And I totally agree OP - it's only a "Spoiler" if it's something that's leaked before the show is aired.

Once it's been aired it becomes common knowledge & there is no "etiquette" required when discussing it as far as I'm concerned.....

Callaird · 18/12/2017 23:17

I couldn’t watch the final of GBBO in the summer for a week. I stayed off Facebook and MN because I didn’t want to find out, ended up watching it a week later but my boss told me the winner that day and she never even watched it! My own fault, I should have watched it earlier in the week and it’s not such a big deal at the end of the day!