RockyMtnMerlin

As they used to say on Hill Street Blues, "Let's be Safe Out There." After seeing about 1000 exchanges on spoilers for races in general and the TdF specifically, I don't understand why someone who does not want to be "spoiled" would even open the TdF forum until they determined the winner of the stage in a manner that suits them. I was an offender a couple of years ago (and learned my lesson), but really, if you want to run no risk whatsoever, don't visit the forum until you know the results. Oh and don't pick up the sports section of your local news paper either.

umd

This was posted in the road forum. The mods moved it after the entire exchange here. I think spoilers in the TdF forum are fair game--as you said, anyone who doesn't want to be spoiled shouldn't even come here, and anyone who does here should expect discussions of current events.

RockyMtnMerlin

Thanks for the clarification. I rarely visit the road forum.

Point of etiquette. Can one post current race items in the stage threads at the top of the TdF forum and not risk spoiling? I was going to post some pertinent news about today's stage but feared that I might be on shaky ground.

umd

Yes

RockyMtnMerlin

fore0121

Umm. OK. Nice response. Don't hurt yourself thinking of something constructive to add here.

I would think any open minded person would understand most of us are passionate about the TdF and be considerate of the fact that some of us don't get the chance to watch it all live (sorry if that logic rules you out of this conversation). Some of us really look forward to watching it when we have a chance, even if it is a few hours later.

No one died here, just pointing out ot the OP that having this in the road forum was not cool. Especially when even scrolling over the title gave the spoiler in the OP's first line of the post. He acknowledged it (although he could have edited out the spoiler from his post). Now more people understand post whatever the hell you want in the TdF forum, spoilers and all, but try to be considerate in the Road Bike forum.

I think the fact that this thread was moved over here to TdF shows what the etiquette is. If you choose not to use it you can expect to get called on it.

merlinextraligh

My understanding of the rule has been that you post spoiling comments in the thread for the days stage. Everyone knows to avoid those if they don't want to know the outcome.


Otherwise, you can't post comments that are spoilers, unless the thread is clearly labelled as a Spoiler.

As a practical matter, people probably have to assume there's going to being spoiling posts in any TDF forum thread.

Laggard

I go great lengths throughout the day to avoid spoilers. The last thing I would ever do is visit a cycling website. I'd watch the damn race first.

Snake8

+ 1000^

Spoiler whiners are such weenies. Welcome to the internet folks. Its called the information age for a reason. Excercise your own self control and stay off the net instead of coming up with ridiculous rules about who can post what and when b/c you work so much.