okay, it's obviously beginning

[fox]

People who want to talk about spoilers for HP7:  obviously I would never deny your right to do so.  However, may I ask that you either a) reveal nothing, and I mean nothing, outside of what will naturally be a non-revealing LJ-cut, or b) let me know now that you might be dangerous, so I can find a way to put you on some sort of filter and not get inadvertently spoiled like I did last time?

I know some of you hunt spoilers and others of you think avoiding them is stupid.  But thanks for humoring me and my pathological need to know as little as possible.  :-)

All I really do want to know, actually, is, do we know a release date?

Comments

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

*puts on "I Gave Nothing Away"* crown*

No release date yet....and the limited spoilers were of the pretty unavoidable variety. Lexin - also avoiding spoilers - hear them on the *news* this morning. :)

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

[shines crown for you] Quite right. You're doing very well.

I don't agree that the presence of one idiot radio guy makes spoilers unavoidable. Lexin's exposure was unfortunate, sure, but I'm not just counting on people to refrain from spoiling me -- I'm taking my own welfare into my own hands, yo, very libertarian, and seriously considering going offline in the home stretch if it looks like that's necessary. (I don't even like speculating, but I can't help it, so I try not to give myself any material with which to speculate.) I'm not messing around. :-)

[kmg-365.livejournal.com]

I wonder if HP spoiler hounds are more rabid than Star Wars spoiler hounds. As Episode III neared completion, it became nearly impossible to browse any Star Wars sites - even ones claiming to be spoiler free - without seeing massive spoilers.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

Are you kidding? I don't go to the sites. That seems to be to just be asking for trouble.

[kmg-365.livejournal.com]

Well, Echo claimed to be spoiler free - at least in the non-spoiler sections. I was looking for spoilers, but those who weren't were in for a rude awakening! Short of becoming a complete recluse, I don't think there would have been any way to avoid hearing anything about Episode III.

I'm not as familiar with the HP fan base as I am the SW - would you consider them equally fanatic?

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

Well -- there is no single base, for one thing, because the fandom is huge and sprawling like you have no idea. Possibly more so than Star Wars; it's hard for me to say, because I've never really attached myself to any sort of fannish main stream. My impression of the high-traffic HP sites (and it's just an impression, mind, because as I say, I don't go there myself) is that they assume if you're there it's because you want news. And with that kind of (frankly not unreasonable) assumption, of course a person is going to get spoiled.

What I'm trying to take precautions against, though, is people bringing the spoilers to me in the form of careless posts in LJs that appear on my flist. I know it's my responsibility to avoid things I don't want to read, though [g] -- so I'm hoping to find out what it is I need to avoid without wishing I'd avoided it sooner, if you see what I mean.

[kmg-365.livejournal.com]

I understand. Unfortunately, unlike the Echo LJ community, one can't require others to LJ-cut their own journals. Or even provide any advanced warning.

It's a shame LJ doesn't let you filter out contents based upon keywords. If it did, you could filter out any HP info.

One plus: 99% of spoilers, especially this far out, are generally bunk.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

No, right. That's why I'm asking nicely. :-)

Keyword-filtering would be AWESOME.

And I'm with you on the bunkery of early spoilers, but it sort of doesn't matter -- things that get me speculating are almost as bad. My favorite case in point is the fact that at least a couple of my friends didn't know that someone was going to die in Order of the Phoenix, much less who. So they didn't spend the whole book being distracted by the red herrings of Arthur Weasley getting cut up, Hermione getting hit on the head, etc., etc. I don't know how they managed not to have heard, but they didn't. Obviously that's, like, the ultimate goal (shezan tells me the first time she saw Macbeth she didn't know how it was going to end! can you imagine?!) -- unreachable in most instances, but definitely something to strive for.

[kmg-365.livejournal.com]

shezan tells me the first time she saw Macbeth she didn't know how it was going to end! can you imagine

Okay, how is that even remotely possible?! How old was she when she saw Macbeth, for Cliff's sake?

[misia.livejournal.com]

Dude, although you already know that I am totally Voldemort in disguise as a mild-mannered female writer, I won't spoiler you because I really don't care enough about HP to find out anything spoilerish. That Rowling woman has it all wrong anyway. :)

[juice817.livejournal.com]

This makes me laugh because there was that article yesterday (which is where I assumed Lexin was spoiled, because it was on the news) and when I asked obsessed1 if she wanted to know, she asked if it was a spoiler by saying "how pissed would Fox be if she heard this?"

Hee.

And no, no release date yet, just "sometime next year". OotP the movie is 7/13/07, though.

[axiom_of_stripe]

actually, it should be possible to hack the flist code to hide posts with certain keywords; i'm not sure how it could handle lj-cuts because i haven't tried it yet, but if you'd like we could poke at it....

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

I think the response I am looking for is OHMYGOD YES PLEASE. I'll take the keyword solution; if it hides things that would have been hidden by cuts, that's okay by me, as long as it can hide things that aren't. Better safe than sorry.

OMGYAY.

[axiom_of_stripe]

you're still using the modified component layout...hmm. i will see what i can do when i have a moment from work!

[ccr1138.livejournal.com]

And me, I love spoilers so much, I'm like "WHAT SPOILER? WHERE? LINK, PLEASE!"

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

As is your absolutely inalienable right. See me not trying to legislate against it? What is it I want to subtract from the situation that makes me uncomfortable? My own self, that's right.

[/parable][ducks and runs away][ggg]

[beck-liz.livejournal.com]

You know, I admire your willpower. I want to know so much that if people are talking about it on my flist, I can't help but to go look at what they're saying. I try to avoid it, and I don't go out looking for spoilers, but if they're right there in front of me? I read them. Sometimes it doesn't affect my enjoyment when it actually comes out, but sometimes it does.