I think there's a certain degree of feedback loop going on here; some people find the extreme anti-spoiler position sufficiently bizarre that it tips them over into actively trying to subvert it, and meanwhile the obvious attempts to deliberately spoil people make more and more people take at least some precautions against being spoiled, and talk nastily about those deliberately trying to spoil it. I think you are absolutely right about this.
When I had the last book spoiled for me, three days before it came out, I was so angry. I was furious! I couldn't believe that a total stranger would be so spiteful as to try to ruin my experience of reading that book, and worse, to laugh at me for mourning the fact that they had done so. And it did alter the reading experience for me. I wanted desperately to be able to read that book as Rowling wanted it to be read, without knowing what would happen. I felt so cheated.
That is why I have been trying so hard to avoid spoilers. That is why I defriended someone--and exchanged some angry words--with someone who has been on my friends list for years who posted a scan of the book. I don't want to be cheated again this time around, and yeah, I really resent those who are making it easy to do.
But I don't know what I'd do if, when I go to the bookstore tonight to pick up my copy some yahoo out in the parking lot decides to yell out the ending of the book. I might be tempted to resort to violence, seriously. I plan to wear my iPod and have the music turned up Really Loud when I exit the store.
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Date: 2007-07-20 10:28 am (UTC)When I had the last book spoiled for me, three days before it came out, I was so angry. I was furious! I couldn't believe that a total stranger would be so spiteful as to try to ruin my experience of reading that book, and worse, to laugh at me for mourning the fact that they had done so. And it did alter the reading experience for me. I wanted desperately to be able to read that book as Rowling wanted it to be read, without knowing what would happen. I felt so cheated.
That is why I have been trying so hard to avoid spoilers. That is why I defriended someone--and exchanged some angry words--with someone who has been on my friends list for years who posted a scan of the book. I don't want to be cheated again this time around, and yeah, I really resent those who are making it easy to do.
But I don't know what I'd do if, when I go to the bookstore tonight to pick up my copy some yahoo out in the parking lot decides to yell out the ending of the book. I might be tempted to resort to violence, seriously. I plan to wear my iPod and have the music turned up Really Loud when I exit the store.