I've previously made the case for keeping Patch 3.3 Spoiler Free. And I have been happy to have kept myself in the cone of silence until I was able to see things for myself. But yesterday's buzz over the data mining of the Lich King cinematic makes it a good time to revisit the topic.
As soon as I started seeing the twitter buzz, I made my plea:
internets plz 2b keeping your lich king spoilers clearly marked so peeps don't get spoiled not by choice.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that Re-Tweeted a few times. It's nice to know I'm not the only one who wants to experience Arthas 1st hand when we eventually get to him. I wouldn't have watched a Sephiroth FFVII spoiler back in the day either. I don't shake my Christmas presents to try to guess what they might be. I don't read the final page of a novel first. I do like for a few things to be in the moment surprises.
First of all a big THANK YOU! to MMO Champion and WoW Insider for keeping their article headlines, which show up on feed readers all around the Web, clearly marked as containing spoilers inside, and not hinting at what they might entail.
I can totally understand the curiosity about what's going to happen next, and that some folks want to know now. I don't care if others ant the spoilers; I just hate when I get them not by choice. I'd like to think folks don't purposefully spoil stuff for others, rather that they get caught up and spill the beans. But the same way you wouldn't blab the ending of a new movie or the seasonal finale of LOST this year if you are on the East Coast to everyone, if you choose to read the spoilers, please think twice before sharing them some place the unwary can't avoid them.
GOOD: Behind an LJ Cut, behind a blog cut tag with lots of SPOILER! copy around it. BAD: On twitter, in guild chat, in various and sundry WoW chat channels. MARVELOUS: the #wrongspoilers the tweeps I follow were posting last night. Not only did a number of them make me LOL, they'll be sure to confound google real time search as well. mwahaha.
Happy Adventuring and thanks everyone for keeping this patch as spoiler-free as you have.
The one good thing about having a horrible memory such as myself, is that I can see all the spoilers in the world, and by the time I get to whatever it was that was spoiled, I’ll have already forgotten that I ever saw/read/heard it the first time.
I won’t ruin anything for you, though. I wouldn’t indulge in spoilage myself if I didn’t already know before hand that I’d forget about it. I watched the spoiler last night and I’ve already forgotten all but 3 details, and I can assure you the rest will be forgotten within the week.
May your senses remain spoiler free!
hehe thanks for giving me a smile in the form of this comment.
🙂