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Should Doctor Who news be confined to the spoiler thread?
CD93
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With debate raging in the wake of Osgood's return, I put it to you whether official Doctor Who news should be confirmed to the board's spoiler thread or kept behind spoiler tags. Should varying levels of personal spoiler tolerance be adhered to, or is it fair game for open discussion once it comes out of Moffat's mouth?
You be the judge!
You be the judge!
Should Doctor Who news be confined to the spoiler thread? 57 votes
Yes - it's not fair if you don't want to know
24%
14 votes
No - if it's official, it shouldn't be hidden
75%
43 votes
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Some consideration could be used by the Thread starters for their titles though.
Surprise return of Dead character in Series 9
rather than
Osgood's Alive and back in Series 9
maybe.
Anyone who doesn't care about spoilers will click on the first option anyway and those that want to remain in the dark can just avoid it.
I've never had a thing about spoilers, within reason, and would say what's announced by the Beeb is fair enough to be talked about, but that's a good post. Maybe a bit of circumspection in thread titles, as you suggest, to take the spoilerphobes into consideration. And the Spoilers and info thread does cover most things as the series is being filmed.
I'll get splinters from all this fence sitting!
Why should people have to be discrete about something which clearly isn't a spoiler? If you go on a forum site, then you should expect to see the latest news debated and discussed.
Just take a little care and common sense in choosing appropriate thread titles for any new threads you create. That's all we've been asking for.
So, uh, I don't believe this but I'm reluctantly going to vote NO.
Yes they have.
There are those spoilers that the production team don't want people to know about, discovered by leaked news or episodes, people reporting from filming etc and those which the production team are happy to release to the public to promote the series, or for whatever reason.
Personally I don't like spoilers and for that reason don't use the spoiler thread. I am however perfectly happy for news that is officially published by the BBC and appears on the front of page of DS and other sites to be discussed out in the open because there is no way for me to avoid that news. Even if I managed to avoid reading it on this site I can bet it will be featured in trailers or promos for next weeks episode etc. I also assume that the production team would know better than me what would spoil my enjoyment of the show and carefully choose which information to release.
People have been discussing news releases for years on this forum, and if you go over to the soaps forum you will find plenty of threads discussing and speculating about upcoming stories that have been promoted so I am at a loss as to why this is suddenly even an issue on this particular sub-forum.
There is an assumed risk by even coming to forums like this when discussing Doctor Who. I prefer to watch GoT cold so I avoid reading any news about it on this site or going anywhere near the GoT forum.
If people are so bothered about it then whey not separate out the spoiler thread? So spoilers is one thread and news or press releases or whatever is another.
Surely I'm not alone in not wanting to discuss spoilers but being quite happy to talk about press releases?
Oops. My mistake. Well, I still think that's going a bit too far. Just a little care is all that's needed. There's no need to restrict the actual discussion.
Not when it's not a spoiler.
Yes and in an appproapriate thread.
Maybe some people enjoy coming here to discuss old episodes and trivia etc but are trying their best to remain in the dark about as much as possible for the new series?
I don't understand it myself but who am I or anyone else to say?
As such when it comes to thread titles
'Guess Who is returning in S9...'
is just as easy to type as
'OMG Osgood is back in episode 7' and means everyone's happy. I realise not seeing everything in black and white is a bit of a challenge for a lot of Doctor Who fans who are often, hmmmm how do I put this? 'slightly on the spectrum somwhere or other' but it's really not complex.
It seems bizarre that DS can have a photo of Ingrid in costume on the front page, yet DS forum members are expected to allude cryptically to the news.
Indeed. Spot on be more pacific, spot on.
I can't help thinking that, if you genuinely want to avoid finding anything out about the upcoming season of Doctor Who you'd have to avoid all media and television between now and September!
Furthermore, if you really wanted to avoid all publicity about the new season then coming onto a Doctor Who forum (which exists purely to talk about Doctor Who), seems a somewhat foolish thing to do...
The BBC are never going to reveal secret plot related stuff that would ruin an episode, but when they let out little details such as the return of Missy/Osgood/ zygons they do so because they WANT people to hear about it and share it to whet people's appetite for the return of the show and keep them interested during the wait for it's return.
I agree if you've seen something that has not been officially announced, that someone has found out through watching filming, or through someone off the set, or a leaked script then yes it should be confined to the spoiler thread or at least be in spoiler tags in whichever thread posted.
In the instance such as the one in this topic though, absolutely no, if it's been announced, it's not a spoiler, it's general news that the BBC wants you to know. No discussion of it should be stifled, no thread titles should have to be cryptic, as it is public knowledge and should be able to be freely talked about. If anyone really dosen't want to know anything even that's so small a detail that even the BBC thinks it's ok to share, then they should avoid all forums and probably newspapers for that matter as it is the only way they are ever going to do it.
When I read that William Hartnell turns into Pat Troughton - that may be a spoiler for some young people who haven't seen it yet - but it is common knowledge!
Some spoilers spoil it for certain people - who don't read the newspapers or watch TV or use a computer (??) - so sad for them. Life must be hard.
I love to know what's coming up next TBH!!
I'll give you a clue: the TARDIS is going to be in series 9.
(Hope that wasn't a massive spoiler for the spoilerphobes out there!
Don't know if I should be mentioning this so openly but word has it that Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman will be reprising their roles as the 12th doctor and Clara respectively, and the series is said to heavily include such themes as time travel and world saving
I'd have never suspected that.
Take your spoilers elsewhere, blue box! ;-)
I don't think the rule is something requiring being enforced, but I would support the attitude of Corwin and others, in that it's nice to not give the game away in the thread title - and equally that spoilerphobes are aware that just by visiting, they might see information they don't want to.
Other than that, I agree that official BBC material is fair game.