Making a spoiler-free filter

[pegkerr]

chaeche came up with this idea and I quite like it. I had the last Harry Potter book spoiled for me by a jerk who, several days before HBP was even released, thought it would be funny to post a picture of the crucial page with key words underlined in red (Snape killed Dumbledore). It happened on found_objects (a photography community, for heavens sake! I never dreamed I could have gotten spoiled there before the book even came out!)

Like chaeche, I DON'T want to be spoiled on this one, so it makes sense to set up a spoil-free filter. I will start by filtering out communities (and someone mentioned in chaeche's journal turning off icons, which I think is a smart idea. How do you do it?) So please, dear friends list, answer for me:

[Poll #998737]

As for my own policy, I will not post any spoilers for either the book or the movie before the release. After the release, I will put everything even slightly spoilerish behind a cut-tag.

Edited to add: To turn off communities on your friends page, add

?show=p

to the end of the URL, i.e., http://pegkerr.livejournal.com/friends/?show=p

Some good advice from commenters with further instructions on how to avoid spoilers:

From ceildh: If you are determined not to be spoiled, you may want to be careful if you are subscribed to LJ notices, and get notices when someone adds you as a friend - a troll with a spoilery username such as "ddore_dies" could friend you, which seemed to happen a lot last time. Also they could comment to you, which you'd get notification of, so you may want to temporarily enable commenting as friends-only.

From laurel: This is the page you want for turning off userpics in your LJ style/scheme (assuming you use a S2 style). 'Course that just applies to your theme so only works when viewing your f-list with your own journal style (not whatever the default LJ style is).

If you care about mood icons, you can adjust those settings from the look and feel tab and say that you want all mood icons anywhere to be the ones you set (rather than what others want in their LJ posts).

All this stuff should be under www.livejournal.com/customize/ (just in case my other links don't work).

Oh-- another simpler (maybe?) way is available from this page. You can have all icons replaced with a placeholder image. Took me a while to find that page, you think it'd be somewhere obvious!

Comments

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

Spoilers are evil. I avoid them like the plague.