Spoiler threads may be begun in this forum where spoilers do not have to be marked, but must be marked as having spoilers in their titles
that is great, Aaron, thank you! Now
1. We might think of adding the same line to Spoiler Requirements in at least some other threads. For example, Turtleback: it would be pathetic to see such poem (extrait taken from CAN' Ka No Rey by CRinVA):
Of Susan Delgado of that you’d know
Spoiler:
She died for sure oh Char You tree
But not the idiot savant Sheemie,
For Roland sought the Tower over thee
A gunslinger’s Ka, his destiny.
Through a glass palace the ka-tet must past
Back to End-world, was it Todash
But first a re-aquantance with the Tick Tock Man
Brought back to life by a man named Flagg
Twas a quick fight, the work of Gan.
I can’t remember if I cried
When I read about
Spoiler:
Eddie’s widowed bride,
And something touched me deep inside
The day
Spoiler:
the bumbler died.
So bye-bye, the Ka-tet of five.
Now, in Gilead, too, there may very well appear a poll on, for example, "Whose death was the saddest". Gilead would be the proper place for it (not all deaths took place in DT7), but it would be impossible to mark spoilers with the poll questions. Basing on TDT.net experience, I anticipate a great number of such threads, or loop-threads (not necessarily belonging to DT7, either) etc. So I'm afraid the number of the threads where this new rule applies should be higher.
2. We have to decide how to keep the number of such threads reasonable. Probably it should be left to moderator's discretion whether or not a thread should or shouldn't have ***spoilers*** in the title.
3. I am still not sure if it wouldn't be easier and more natural and logical to just spoiler-mark all Baronies' forums, rather than individual threads (I'm talking only about the Baronies now, since elsewhere it is hardly applicable or needed) the way I suggested in one of the posts above:
The Gunslinger ***spoilers for Book 1***
The DofTT ***spoilers for Books 1 and 2***
The Waste Lands ***spoilers for Books 1, 2 and 3***
..................................
The Dark Tower ***spoilers for all seven books***
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3. I am still not sure if it wouldn't be easier and more natural and logical to just spoiler-mark all Baronies' forums, rather than individual threads (I'm talking only about the Baronies now, since elsewhere it is hardly applicable or needed) the way I suggested in one of the posts above:
The Gunslinger ***spoilers for Book 1***
The DofTT ***spoilers for Books 1 and 2***
The Waste Lands ***spoilers for Books 1, 2 and 3***
I think that this would be the best idea for the baronies forum. Exactly as you laid out the example Jean, it's a great idea and makes perfect sense. If you go into the individual forum for a particular book, you should expect to find many spoilers for that book in that particular forum.
Hey, while you're at it, could you define the universe and give three examples?
Just askin'
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
I can do it on my head (picture below). Not in this thread, though.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
sorry to obsessively return to the same question, but do quotations have to appear in italics? When the author of the quotation is specified (which seems a natural thing to do), most of his formatting is killed, and - maybe it's just me, of course - the quotation itself dramatically loses in readability. It was all right for small quotes, but not so very good for large ones.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think they don't have to appear in italics as long as the quotation itself is credited to the author.
here it goes. In italics.
while this one is with no author mentioned:
I think they don't have to appear in italics as long as the quotation itself is credited to the author.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The way I've always handled spoilers in book discussions is this (feel free to disregard if it doesn't work here) :
If you're discussing a book in a book discussion forum, it's assumed that you've read up till and through the book being discussed, so spoilers BEFORE said book are fair game, AFTER said book must be marked. So, for example, if you're in the Wizard and Glass discussion forum, you'd only need to mark spoilers for books V, VI, and VII. Plus, the spoiler free discussion here is a separate thing, that makes things a lot easier for 1st time readers. They can discuss things as they read there, then go to the Barinies after they finish each book.
I love Aaron's and Jean's ideas for marking in other sections.
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Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When viewing the Fan Art page...the top of the page link/logo "The Dark Tower.com" is broken. I don't know if it has been mentioned before. I just thought you may want to know. The site's still awesome though.
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