I consider the thing that you point to a spoiler for future chapters for those readers lucky enough to not have had it spoiled the first time around, and it would be nice if you did not state it explicitly in your comment.
I apologize if you or anyone else reading does in fact feel spoiled by my previous comment. Unfortunately I don’t think it’s really possible to revise the spoilers out of the comment and maintain the meaning; the matter is referred to within the following comments anyway, and since there are following comments it would be disingenuous to remove the comment altogether.
However, I would point out that, considering the matter has been referenced explicitly by the author a long time ago, it would seem that at this point that there is an aspect of the story that isn’t being appreciated by readers without this knowledge. Compare the resolution of chapter 26 for readers not familar with certain aspects of GOF, or certain interesting aspects of who Hermione and Harry’s generals in the armies are.
Hmmmm. Does this count as “inside knowledge of future chapters” or not? It’s stated that any published chapters of MoR as well as HP in general are fair game for no spoilers in these comments, and the public nature of the author’s notes makes the moniker of inside knowledge dubious.
The guidelines in the spoiler warning about what should be rot13′d are just what I came up with when I posted the first discussion thread. My thought was that comments like yours shouldn’t have to be rot13′d, since these threads are supposed to be full of spoilery discussions from people who know the canon or have spotted hints in MoR and are sharing their insights and informed speculation. People who want to figure out MoR on their own probably don’t want to read this discussion, so I put the spoiler warning for them at the top so we wouldn’t have to worry about rot13′ing every other comment.
But it’s Eliezer’s story, so he has final say over what should be rot13′d. Your comment didn’t look any worse than all of the other comments that have referenced the D-I vqragvgl, and I still don’t think it makes sense to rot13 all of the comments that contain those kinds of spoilers, so maybe Eliezer could clarify what guidelines he thinks we should use for rot13 in these threads.
I consider the thing that you point to a spoiler for future chapters for those readers lucky enough to not have had it spoiled the first time around, and it would be nice if you did not state it explicitly in your comment.
I apologize if you or anyone else reading does in fact feel spoiled by my previous comment. Unfortunately I don’t think it’s really possible to revise the spoilers out of the comment and maintain the meaning; the matter is referred to within the following comments anyway, and since there are following comments it would be disingenuous to remove the comment altogether.
However, I would point out that, considering the matter has been referenced explicitly by the author a long time ago, it would seem that at this point that there is an aspect of the story that isn’t being appreciated by readers without this knowledge. Compare the resolution of chapter 26 for readers not familar with certain aspects of GOF, or certain interesting aspects of who Hermione and Harry’s generals in the armies are.
Hmmmm. Does this count as “inside knowledge of future chapters” or not? It’s stated that any published chapters of MoR as well as HP in general are fair game for no spoilers in these comments, and the public nature of the author’s notes makes the moniker of inside knowledge dubious.
The guidelines in the spoiler warning about what should be rot13′d are just what I came up with when I posted the first discussion thread. My thought was that comments like yours shouldn’t have to be rot13′d, since these threads are supposed to be full of spoilery discussions from people who know the canon or have spotted hints in MoR and are sharing their insights and informed speculation. People who want to figure out MoR on their own probably don’t want to read this discussion, so I put the spoiler warning for them at the top so we wouldn’t have to worry about rot13′ing every other comment.
But it’s Eliezer’s story, so he has final say over what should be rot13′d. Your comment didn’t look any worse than all of the other comments that have referenced the D-I vqragvgl, and I still don’t think it makes sense to rot13 all of the comments that contain those kinds of spoilers, so maybe Eliezer could clarify what guidelines he thinks we should use for rot13 in these threads.
No, Eliezer has policy over rot13 on all stories because he is a utility monster.