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I can't get behind a blanket "no spoilers" in the recommendation forum. People could never agree on what actually constitutes a "spoiler in the first place. Some people really, really, really, REALLY nitpick over things that I would never bat an eye over.
Common sense should prevail. If you're particularly sensitive to spoilers, don't read every word of a thread about a book you may want to read. Carefully skim.
On the other side of the coin ... placing questionably spoilery stuff in spoiler tags is not too difficult, either. If there's a big twist, or a particularly relevant red herring; maybe don't telegraph it.
The bottom line is that the world's messy. Nobody's ever been promised a spoiler-free reading career. Ever. And expecting people to tag every potential spoiler (or even know what everybody else in the world would even consider a "spoiler") in books written since time began isn't very realistic.
People talk about books in the rec forum. Stuff happens. I, for one, would never want to see the Recommendations Forum turn into a graveyard of countless "I liked it, you should read it" posts for fear someone might take offense.
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