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Ergo, it seems a bit silly and futile to be constantly spoilering things when the trope itself is a fundamental spoiler. That way leads to madness and an entire page which is nothing but white, blanked out space (with maybe a few titles if you\'re lucky, seeing how some people love spoilering absolutely everything). I mean, I can see the case for maybe rewording it to something like, say, \
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Ergo, it seems a bit silly and futile to be constantly spoilering things when the trope itself is a fundamental spoiler. That way leads to madness and an entire page which is nothing but white, blanked out space (with maybe a few titles if you\\\'re lucky, seeing how some people love spoilering absolutely everything). I mean, I can see the case for maybe rewording it to something like, say, \\\"all spoilers \\\'\\\'\\\'pertaining to character death\\\'\\\'\\\' will be unmarked\\\" (replace the bold depending on the nature of the page in question) in order to distinguish between the spoiler material that the trope addresses and any other unrelated spoilers that might happen to be included as part of the example (such as, for example, the fact that Alice\\\'s death leads to the unmasking of Bob as the Troper Killer; the former is fair game as part of the page, the latter isn\\\'t), but I do feel that such pages require more leeway than others when it comes to spoilers.
And frankly, because someone has to say it, I\\\'m going to: Caveat lector. Let the troper beware. Maybe it\\\'s because I don\\\'t particularly care about spoilers, but frankly I\\\'m getting a bit tired of the mass-scale squeamishness about spoilers that goes around (in general more than on this wiki specifically). Having something you haven\\\'t read or seen deliberately ruined by someone else out of spite is one thing, but if you\\\'re on a wiki devoted to breaking down complete works of fiction into their component elements reading the examples on a page which by it\\\'s very nature is a spoiler, then frankly, it\\\'s your own damn fault if you come across something you didn\\\'t want to. These component elements by nature will include spoilers. We joke about the addictive properties of TV Tropes, but in all seriousness, it\\\'s just a wiki; no one is forced to be here. Unless someone is holding a gun to your head and making you read the spoiler page, you\\\'ve got no one else to blame but yourself in that situation. You\\\'ve been provided with an adequate warning that the content you\\\'re reading is likely to contain spoilers -- if you choose to read ahead, you don\\\'t get to whine about being spoiled.
And frankly, because someone has to say it, I\\\'m going to: Caveat lector. Let the troper beware. Maybe it\\\'s because I don\\\'t particularly care about spoilers, but frankly I\\\'m getting a bit tired of the mass-scale squeamishness about spoilers that goes around (in general more than on this wiki specifically). Having something you haven\\\'t read or seen deliberately ruined by someone else out of spite is one thing, but if you\\\'re on a wiki devoted to breaking down complete works of fiction into their component elements reading the examples on a page which by it\\\'s very nature is a spoiler, then frankly, it\\\'s your own damn fault if you come across something you didn\\\'t want to. These component elements by nature will include spoilers. We joke about the addictive properties of TV Tropes, but in all seriousness, it\\\'s just a wiki; no one is forced to be here. Unless someone is holding a gun to your head and making you read the spoiler page, you\\\'ve got no one else to blame but yourself in that situation. You\\\'ve been provided with an adequate warning that the content you\\\'re reading is likely to contain spoilers -- if you choose to read ahead, you don\\\'t get to whine about being spoiled.
