Potterdammerung again: Public Service Announcement

[pegkerr]

A very irate ali_wildgoose reports:

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

IF "HARRYPOOTER" FRIENDS YOU, DO NOT GO AND LOOK AT THEIR JOURNAL. IT IS A ^*&^*%@ GIANT SPOILER FOR HARRY POTTER.

Like me, she also recommends setting your comments as "friends-only" That troll also commented with spoilers to Ali's journal.

Comments

[moony]

Well, there's the whole getting fired/possible jail time for cracking the pallet before the designated time. But there's also the whole I-want-to-read-it-at-the-same-time-as-my-friends thing, too. Being a part of something like this is, to me, 50% of the fun of Harry Potter.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Interesting.

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[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Why would you not want to read the book if you had access to it?

That's quite a bit different from "why wouldn't you want to read the book if you have access to it and then go and ruin the fun for thousands of strangers (who never did anything to hurt you) who only want to read the book the way that it's meant to be read (with the surprise unspoiled)?"

That's what happened last time. Someone posted a photograph of the critical page, with the critical phrase underlined, with no cut tag (so that there was no chance to avoid it: you took in the information with a mere glance), in found_objects, a non-Harry Potter community (so people weren't in the least bit expecting it), days before the book was due to be released, in order to spitefully and deliberately spoil the reading experience for as many people as possible.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Right. I remember the scan of the critical page. That impressed me: it's one thing to post a spoiler, but it's waaaaay better to post proof. (I'd be even more impressed if someone faked the typeface, layout, and text and posted a fake spoiler page.)

And yes, I understand that the only possible motivation to do this is malice.

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