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Gonna remove mention of my cleanups on the subpages, since the TRS thread is gone anyway. RealLife this year\'s been a rollercoaster, hence my relatively sporadic troping and inability to do a full cleanup as I intended; sorry. Any mentions on locked subpages, should any be left, should be removed by those with the clearance to do so.
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Gonna remove mention of my cleanups on the subpages, since the TRS thread is gone anyway. RealLife this year\\\'s been a rollercoaster, hence my relatively sporadic troping and inability to do a full cleanup as I intended; sorry. Any mentions on locked subpages, should any be left, should be removed by those with the clearance to do so.
BTW, I still intend to do some cleanups when I can.
BTW, I still intend to do some cleanups when I can.
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I would think it should only be necessary to set a policy for what the \
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I would think it should only be necessary to set a policy for what the \\\"spoiler barrier\\\" is - probably between the start of Act 5 Act 2 and when the trolls start dropping, if not before Bec\\\'s prototyping.
Admittedly, the way the story unfolds makes it difficult and possibly justifies the inconsistency - people have probably just been spoilering anything that\\\'s been portrayed as a twist (like Noir killing the Black Queen), while spoilering the names of the trolls and everything about their ancestors, not to mention the very existence of Doc Scratch, would be impractical. Considering the twist at the end of the Midnight Crew intermission, it\\\'s arguable that there\\\'s a separate spoiler point for every act save 1 and possibly 2 and 3, with the exception of things you need to know to understand subsequent un-spoilered developments.
I\\\'m not raising a vehement objection to de-spoilering everything, but I do think \\\"inconsistency\\\" is a rather weak justification for it, and at the very least edit the text you de-spoiler to make it less awkward. (I\\\'m thinking especially of the description of the ancestors.) I think spoiler tags aren\\\'t just to avoid spoilering people who haven\\\'t read the comic, but to provide a sense of \\\"before\\\" and \\\"after\\\", and arguably, nowhere is that idea more appropriate than with Homestuck.
Oh, and the old discussion page is still there. Just change \\\"Webcomic\\\" in the URL above with \\\"Main\\\".
Admittedly, the way the story unfolds makes it difficult and possibly justifies the inconsistency - people have probably just been spoilering anything that\\\'s been portrayed as a twist (like Noir killing the Black Queen), while spoilering the names of the trolls and everything about their ancestors, not to mention the very existence of Doc Scratch, would be impractical. Considering the twist at the end of the Midnight Crew intermission, it\\\'s arguable that there\\\'s a separate spoiler point for every act save 1 and possibly 2 and 3, with the exception of things you need to know to understand subsequent un-spoilered developments.
I\\\'m not raising a vehement objection to de-spoilering everything, but I do think \\\"inconsistency\\\" is a rather weak justification for it, and at the very least edit the text you de-spoiler to make it less awkward. (I\\\'m thinking especially of the description of the ancestors.) I think spoiler tags aren\\\'t just to avoid spoilering people who haven\\\'t read the comic, but to provide a sense of \\\"before\\\" and \\\"after\\\", and arguably, nowhere is that idea more appropriate than with Homestuck.
Oh, and the old discussion page is still there. Just change \\\"Webcomic\\\" in the URL above with \\\"Main\\\".
