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[Killdren88]

How long are people required to wait before discussing plot points from a film, show or book or game? Is there a set wait time? Or is it never okay to speak of them freely out loud and should remain buried?

[TheChosenOne]

If it's a spoiler,then you should use the spoilers tag. It helps the person whos playing/watching/reading whatever not have the experience ruined because they something to say or ask a question about the topic on the forums. Imagine you never watched Star Wars before and you just as started watching them and you're enjoying them, but had a question so you pop on the SW thread to asked but find out Vader is Luke's father. ( terrible example but you get the idea )

[This is the End My Friend]

What!!!???? Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father? Next you'll tell me he is Princess Leia's father as well. That would kill that ship. 

[Clover Rider]

Snape kills Dombledore.

[X Equestris]

For discussions within a fandom itself, I would say at least six months. That doesn't mean one should go around dropping spoilers in an area where people are less likely to have finished whatever by that time, though.

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

In Avengers 2, Fantastic 4 save the day.

Or maybe not... haven't watched it yet.

[Jeremiah12LGeek]

It really depends.

 

The rules are convoluted, complicated, half-hidden and steeped in superstition and ritual. The only way to truly learn them is to discover when you have broken one of them.

 

While most of the rules are nuanced, there is a Venn diagram of "Cool Factor" that helps generally categorize the length of time required. I will illustrate the scale by citing its extremes:

 

1. It is never okay to discuss the identity of Kizer Sozé. It never will be. The world is divided into two groups, those who have seen The Usual Suspects, and those who have yet to see The Usual Suspects. It is best never to assume anything.

 

2. It was okay to discuss the ending of Lost exactly one second after it aired. Because seriously, there was nothing to ruin at that stage.

 

Between those two points is a gradually sliding scale in which all spoilers can be found. Citizen Kane would tend towards the benefit of the doubt, while Dallas' "It was all a dream" had a pretty short half-life. There's a "feel" to it. Think of it as "Geekdar." Eventually you get a sense of when spoiling an ending will matter.

[Undead Han]

I agree with it depending in part on where the discussion is taking place. A few months after release is good on a forum devoted to a game you're dropping spoilers on, but probably not good in casual conversation at the GameStop counter in a packed store.

 

I guess it can all be summed up to, "Am I likely to spoil this for someone, and if so, is it their fault or mine?" 

[mybudgee]

6 years

 

This is the statue:

 

Spoiler

[Undead Han]

Another rule worth mentioning is that it is totally fine to discuss Sean Bean deaths on film seconds after the film releases.

 

He is a walking spoiler.

[Jorji Costava]

Meh. I think spoiler culture is pretty overblown, to be honest. There's an actual study suggesting that knowing the outcome of a work doesn't actually reduce the overall level of enjoyment you get from that work. Also, Film Crit Hulk has a pretty good piece on the fixation with spoilers here.

[Killdren88]

Him...I shall test your Theories...

Rosebud is the sled.

[Fast Jimmy]

Four months, barring cross-medium works of fiction.

For instance, Game of Thrones definitely needed spoiler tags, despite the books being out for years. Yet people should be able to take about Avenger Age of Ultron with full disclosure now, but not Ant Man.