Yet another spoiler avoidance tip

[pegkerr]

fireriven warns:

I advise anyone who's looking forward to HP7 not to inspect their livejournal profiles for the duration. The trolls are no longer content to have subtle names for their journals, the better to lure you into checking them out and getting "spoiled" or spoiled. No, now they're just naming the troll-journals with the spoilers. So."

To turn off the option of receiving notices when someone friends you go to http://www.livejournal.com/manage/subscriptions/ and uncheck the appropriate box.

Comments

[cheshyre]

A day-and-a-half...
We only have to hold out another 40 hours or so...

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Just heard a report that spam email with spoilers (or apparent spoilers, anyway) in the subject lines is going around, so people wanting to be paranoid might not want to look in their junk mail folders, either. And hope your spam filtering catches them and *puts* them in the junk mail folder!

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.

Of course, all we have to do is release a huge mass of contradictory made-up spoilers big enough to bury the "real" ones in the noise, and it will mostly become irrelevant :-).