On Tue, 16 May 2006 Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote: > Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> > > >And note the name of this list. I haven't read _Gypsy_ or _Cowboy Feng's_ > >yet, and I've gotten stuck early in _F&N_ twice now, and I appreciate the > >fact that I can read this list without inadvertently coming across the > >Cliff's Notes versions of their plots. > > I don't really think our concept of what makes a spoiler is all that > different. We've just been of a different opinion as to whether or not the > specific /Agyar/ premise was, in fact, a spoiler or not. > > On reflection, I can certainly appreciate that information regarding > non-Dragaera works needs much closer scrutiny than the Dragaera works > (this being a Dragaera-centric list) than the other books (I've gotten > bogged down in F&N myself at this point, have barely touched Cowboy > Feng's, and don't even own a copy of S, M, & S, so I can certainly > relate.) > > Majikjon > > And I still think there's maybe a need for a FAQ or something to help > newbies (not just myself, but it certainly would have helped) avoid such > missteps. Otherwise, new contributors will be discouraged from posting, > for fear of breaking some unclear taboo. Just my $0.02. I find the above entirely reasonable. Faq topics: spoiler warnings, the subj line consensus, the off-topic consensus, how to search the archives (and book search, and Amazon), Mark's page and Alexx's timeline and the other important URLs...