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Irene (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2013-06-15 15:09:44

I thought that only applied to the trope pages themselves, not on the crosswicks on Work pages?

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Bisected8 MOD (Primordial Chaos)
2013-06-15 15:11:21

Death tropes examples aren't spoilered because the mere fact a work appears on the page is a spoiler. Spoiler tags wouldn't achieve anything other than making it hard to read.

Although, Spoilers Off means something else (guidelines for when a work doesn't need to be spoilered because the "spoiler" is well known anyway).

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InsanityPrelude Since: Aug, 2009
2013-06-15 15:19:37

Irene: I was talking about trope pages. If I'd been looking at the work page, well, I really couldn't blame anyone but myself.

Bisected8: Whoops, I thought I might be getting Spoilers Off mixed up with something.

I figured "[spoiler: Alice] dies in Work X in order to save the world", or something like that, is a bit less harsh of a spoiler than the entirely uncovered identity and detailed circumstances of the character who dies. It probably would have helped if the trope page I was thinking of (I don't remember which) had folders- then I could have just left the Video Games one closed to begin with, because if I remember right I was looking for something in Webcomics when I spotted the Bioshock Infinite spoiler I'm whining about.

Maybe a good idea would be to encourage people to folderize the pages for death tropes, then?

Edited by InsanityPrelude
Irene (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2013-06-15 15:28:19

I'm fine with folderization as is. Note that some Trope names aren't super obvious, like Player Punch. Maybe it should depend the trope itself?

For the trope pages, it'd be a pain to spoiler-mark it. For work pages, I see a reason for it.

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Psyga315 Since: Jan, 2001
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