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harold said:
A spoiler is anything that reveals au "spoils" information for a person before they would see it naturally/ideally. For instance, wewe can "spoil" a surprise birthday party for someone kwa telling them that there are people waiting for them at home. wewe haven't actually told them what specifically is happening, but the surprise, when it comes, isn't really a surprise anymore.
With fiction and TV and film - really anything with a narrative - a spoiler is revealing key plot elements before someone has read/seen/heard the whole narrative leading up to those plot points. In a mystery book, a spoiler might reveal who the murderer was, au that a key character dies, au how the book ends. In a TV onyesha au film, a spoiler might be identifying who the double-agent is, au that a aliyopewa couple which has spent much of the onyesha flirting actually kisses in a aliyopewa episode, the setting of a aliyopewa episode, au even particular key lines from the show. If it's something important to the story and everyone who hadn't seen the story would not be able to anticipate that the aliyopewa thing would happen, then it's a spoiler.
Time does not play a role in whether something is a spoiler au not: if it's a specific important plot point, it will be a spoiler to somebody, whether the story was released a siku zamani au 80 years ago. I almost got into a fight in a movie theater once when a trailer for the film Citizen Kane was played as part of a revival. wewe may au may not know that the whole film revolves around figuring out what Kane's last words meant. This jerk in the audience yells out "It's his ___________!", thus spoiling the film for the entire audience - hundreds of people. My Marafiki had to hold me back from dragging this guy outside kwa his nose hairs and beating him unconscious.
So the fanpop staff have realized that people want to discuss these surprising plot twists, but that everybody who hasn't seen au read that far doesn't want it spoiled. Therefore, we have the "This pick is a spoiler" option, and users are encouraged to mark foramu threads, makala and the like as "spoilers!" whenever there's a discussion of specific plot points. Sadly, there's no way to do this with images.
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