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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
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.
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"Why did you tell me the ship sank? You spoiled the end of the movie!"
In a discussion about spoilers years ago, somebody claimed that in a review of historical novels, you shouldn't spoil the ending of the American Civil War in a book because readers from other countries might not know how it ended.
Of course, people laughed at that. They also pointed out that was insulting to people from other countries. And there
is a difference between "spoiling" the plot of a novel and spoiling the end of a very well-known historical event.
A gray area might be a lesser-known historical event. Some people were upset that the end of the miniseries
Masada was spoiled for them when someone revealed
. Is that a spoiler because fewer people would be familiar with the events?