Dragaera

META: Proposed rules page first complete draft

Howard Brazee howard at brazee.net
Fri May 26 08:45:26 PDT 2006

Or in particular, say "The latest book - which currently is _Sethra 
Lavode_, even when the latest book's spoilers are not major plot twists".

I really see 1½ spoilers in Dragaerian novels, and neither is in the 
Viscount of Adrilanka series, so the guidelines need to be better defined.


Charles Sumner wrote:

>At 12:57 PM 5/25/2006 -0700, Jon wrote:
>>[re: adding spoiler warnings] This most notably concerns certain facts
>>revealed late in _Orca_, and many of the later events in _Issola_ and _The
>>Viscount of Adrilankha_.
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>Given your other comments, I'd recommend changing _The Viscount of 
>Adrilankha_ to _Sethra Lavode_ because 1) that's where the meat of the 
>spoilable things are and 2) since there's no specific book titled _The 
>Viscount of Adrilankha_ it might help avoid some confusion from new 
>readers.  You could also list it as "_Sethra Lavode_ (aka volume three of 
>_The Viscount of Adrilankha_)" if you wanted to keep the TVoA reference.
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>>When writing a message marked with a spoiler warning, in cases where the
>>spoiler itself would normally occur very early in the text of the message,
>>it is a good idea to provide several blank lines (15-20 is usually a good
>>number)
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>I agree with the other folks who thought this should read something like 
>"...several blank lines, 17 is a popular number."
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>Charley
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