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@Dernman: I remembered seeing the Images. So was there anything about this that was a spoiler? I mean, I am not a huge FF fan, but I try to keep up with the state of the Marvel Universe. Nothing in there seemed shocking.
Nope there was no spoiler here at all.
So, because they revealed that Annihilus was alive and growing in an issue a while ago...it doesn't mean this is a spoiler? Yes, it does. They revealed the return and storyline involvement of a major F.F. villain in the TITLE OF THE ARTICLE. That's a spoiler. Comic Vine has a penchant for putting spoilers in the article titles. It's a bad habit.
They should give us a choice.
You obviously don't know what a spoiler is. The pic is an advertisement that Marvel themselves let out. It was something they put out for everyone for everyone to know because they wanted people to know. It wasn't leaked info. It wasn't a secret.
Let me explain something to you, and for others who seem to not grasp the concept.
Just because Marvel play fast, loose and desperate with spoilerific solicits to market THEIR PRODUCT to impatient people who don't know how to enjoy things without knowing every facet of plot, doesn't mean journalists should do the same thing. It also doesn't mean that I am therefore going to inevitably be exposed to them. I have done extremely well to avoid any and all solicits, spoilers and plot details that Marvel happen to throw out because I steer clear of MARVEL sites.
It is poor journalistic ethics to not offer the reader a choice. Comic Vine aren't marketing Marvel comics. They're offering insight. If you want to read spoilers, they have every right to post them. What they SHOULD do is consider that not all of their members want to know the things Marvel are ridiculous about leaking.
To many people it ruins the surprise of reading comics, especially if you make a concerted effort to avoid such things.
It does not take a Herculean effort to not put spoilers in the title and, in place of spoilers, to WARN of spoilers upon clicking the title. Does it? I'm not asking Comic Vine to stop posting anything. I'm suggesting it's a bit crappy to keep openly putting info that people might CHOOSE to avoid, and put effort into doing so, in unavoidable article titles.
Maybe if you all learned to be a bit less spoiler happy then you might find modern day comics less predictable.
The only one not getting it is you this wasn't just fast an loose slip. It wasn't a leak.
This was an intentional advertisement. They put it out because they wanted as many people to know as possible. It stopped being an a spoiler the moment they decided they wanted put that pic out there. This wasn't something that you had to go looking for like whats on sale part where you can see future covers this is something they themselves shoved in your face. It was a promo.
Something they put right there on their website. Something the give to other sites for people like you to see it.
You talk about news papers but have you ever read one. Front page big pic with the headline same thing.
You getting mad at this is like someone getting mad at a TV station for running a trailer for a movie during the commercials.
Only way for you to not know about it is to stick your head in the sand and not come to a site like this.
Just because you have to go to great lengths to avoid what marvel themselves are putting out there because they want everyone to know don't expect the world to bow down to what you want.
Because Marvel wants it right there where you don't want it to be so somebody will see it and go I want to pick up that book.
Please don't reply to me if you're not going to read my initial post. You didn't get my point.
I never said, "Comic Vine should never report anything with explicit plot details." I said they should simply not put those explicit plot details in their article titles. We should be given the choice to avoid spoilers or revelations, not have them thrust upon us. They simply could have taken the journalistic initiative to have an ambigious title, with "SPOILERS INSIDE".
Would it have killed them? Would it have been that much effort? Would they rather fans of their site STOP coming here because they can't use spoiler warnings, or is it unreasonable to expect a little journalistic couth when dealing with this kind of thing? What I am saying is not unreasonable. If people want things spoiled or revealed, they can have it. Once seen, you cannot unsee, and that isn't fair. Marvel are marketing their own product, Comic Vine aren't. They are journalists. I don't read comic reviews on here before I've read the issue because I don't want it spoiled.
They give you a choice. They don't reveal anything in the title of the review, they use spoiler tags most of the time too. Is it that much to ask for them to be more careful with their main page article titles? Really?
I'm not asking Sara, Tony and the crew to lasso the moon for me, here. I'm asking for something very simple and very courteous, and it wouldn't hinder their journalistic expression at all.
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