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Originally Posted by tompe
I am not talking about chat room. I am talking about big news blogs and other stuff. With GoT it is impossible to not be spoiled if you want to read blogs like engadget, boing boing and so on. Things like who dies and so on is extremely hard not to see.
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Exactly. And if you're at all active on some social media channels - Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and the likes - and at least some of your friends list is based on common interests, it'll be basically guaranteed that someone spoils something they watched earlier that night, or reblogs/retweets spoilery things from others, and so on.
And that's even not getting into if you're a
fan of something - if you're a fan, and frequent forums, message boards, communities etc, not only will you encounter spoilers but you also just simply cannot participate. Obviously there is the "choice" to just stay away - but this is basically telling all foreign fans of a show to bugger off, this isn't a place for them, they have no business also wanting to share in the conversations and discussions and theories.
Or they can return 6-12 months later, after watching the DVDs, when 90% of the other fans have moved on to new seasons and new episode discussions and no one is interested in picking up the old discussions any longer...
This last point is not something likely to bother a casual viewer (but I'd guess the majority of people who go to the effort to download something fall more onto the "interested fan" than the "casual viewer" side of things), but yes, for the absolute blockbuster shows, it'll be difficult to avoid some spoilers even when staying away from strictly fannish places.