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Re: Should spoiler alerts be compulsory?

Posted: 15 Dec 2013, 13:48
by taffytoon
keithmoonhangover wrote:
No need to get arsey about it. I'm just asking if someone needs to check listing for delayed fights, then post a spoiler?
Sorry Keith the :roll: was out of order, apologies.

Re: Should spoiler alerts be compulsory?

Posted: 15 Dec 2013, 13:50
by keithmoonhangover
taffytoon wrote:
keithmoonhangover wrote:
No need to get arsey about it. I'm just asking if someone needs to check listing for delayed fights, then post a spoiler?
Sorry Keith the :roll: was out of order, apologies.
No worries Geordie boy. :TU:

Re: Should spoiler alerts be compulsory?

Posted: 15 Dec 2013, 14:31
by Boxerbeetle
Personally, if there's a fight I've recorded overnight that I don't want spoiled, I don't check ANYTHING until I've seen it.

Boxrec, Twitter, Facebook, text messages...whatever, I don't look at a single one until I've watched the fight.

That being said, it takes 2 seconds to put a spoiler warning in the title, so I see the argument for flagging spoilers in thread titles just out of courtesy.

But if I didn't want to have a fight spoiled, a boxing forum is the last place I'd visit.

Re: Should spoiler alerts be compulsory?

Posted: 15 Dec 2013, 14:56
by Coco
Should people put spoilers on their Facebook and twitter status's if they contain boxing results??

Re: Should spoiler alerts be compulsory?

Posted: 15 Dec 2013, 14:58
by lefty
Coco wrote:Should people put spoilers on their Facebook and twitter status's if they contain boxing results??
Not sure exactly how you could do that anyway lol.

Re: Should spoiler alerts be compulsory?

Posted: 15 Dec 2013, 16:09
by Coco
columbo wrote:
Coco wrote:Should people put spoilers on their Facebook and twitter status's if they contain boxing results??
Not sure exactly how you could do that anyway lol.
Or if you have lots of friends on Facebook who like boxing would it be an idea not to look at it if you are trying to avoid the result.
Also if you want to watch the match of the day highlights without knowing the scores, it is worth avoiding the back pages of the paper
But then you could lobby papers to but spoilers on their headlines!

Re: Should spoiler alerts be compulsory?

Posted: 15 Dec 2013, 16:19
by keithmoonhangover
Coco wrote:
columbo wrote:
Coco wrote:Should people put spoilers on their Facebook and twitter status's if they contain boxing results??
Not sure exactly how you could do that anyway lol.
Or if you have lots of friends on Facebook who like boxing would it be an idea not to look at it if you are trying to avoid the result.
Also if you want to watch the match of the day highlights without knowing the scores, it is worth avoiding the back pages of the paper
But then you could lobby papers to but spoilers on their headlines!
BoxN@tion puts the results on Facebook pretty sharp. Let's sue the buggers. :twisted:

Re: Should spoiler alerts be compulsory?

Posted: 15 Dec 2013, 16:20
by forcefraser
I have "spoiler Nazis" only a couple of rungs higher than wife beaters.

If you want to avoid a boxing result, dont go on a boxing forum or boxing website of any kind. Few things get my back up as much as some muppet giving some other guy a hard time after he has logged on to a boxing forum, chosen to go into a thread about the fight who's result he is trying to avoid and then, suprise suprise, he sees the result in the theead. Get real. Are we in nursery school here?

Re: Should spoiler alerts be compulsory?

Posted: 15 Dec 2013, 16:20
by ALI
chad wrote:People are visiting the British & Irish section of the forum to discuss the results of British and & Irish fights.
Maybe people outside of the UK and Ireland are, but i reckon most Brit/Irish members visit the Brit/Irish forum to talk boxing on all levels with their likeminded countrymen. My main reason for visitng the forum today was to catch peoples reactions to Broner getting beat, i did not visit the current scene nor do i intend to.

Re: Should spoiler alerts be compulsory?

Posted: 15 Dec 2013, 16:23
by lefty
ALI wrote:
chad wrote:People are visiting the British & Irish section of the forum to discuss the results of British and & Irish fights.
Maybe people outside of the UK and Ireland are, but i reckon most Brit/Irish members visit the Brit/Irish forum to talk boxing on all levels with their likeminded countrymen. My main reason for visitng the forum today was to catch peoples reactions to Broner getting beat, i did not visit the current scene nor do i intend to.
I wouldnt recommend it I have to admit.

Re: Should spoiler alerts be compulsory?

Posted: 15 Dec 2013, 16:23
by forcefraser
ALI wrote:
chad wrote:People are visiting the British & Irish section of the forum to discuss the results of British and & Irish fights.
Maybe people outside of the UK and Ireland are, but i reckon most Brit/Irish members visit the Brit/Irish forum to talk boxing on all levels with their likeminded countrymen. My main reason for visitng the forum today was to catch peoples reactions to Broner getting beat, i did not visit the current scene nor do i intend to.
I'm with Ali on this.

Re: Should spoiler alerts be compulsory?

Posted: 15 Dec 2013, 16:26
by n1ebf
it's like getting in a shower and trying not to get wet..

Re: Should spoiler alerts be compulsory?

Posted: 15 Dec 2013, 16:31
by jessi
keithmoonhangover wrote:
WelshJack wrote:I just don't get why people need to go on a boxing forum when trying to avoid results?
this. :TU:
Agree :salut:

Re: Should spoiler alerts be compulsory?

Posted: 15 Dec 2013, 17:23
by crusader
I don't think it should be forced, but it doesn't take long to add 'spoiler' to a title and it would assuage those who complain about having results spoiled.

Then again, I have little sympathy for people who come to a place meant for boxing discussion---where results are also frequently made clear in thread titles--and then complain like they didn't see it coming. If I don't want a result spoiled, I wait until I see the fight and I avoid a site in which discussion of the result will be ubiquitous! It's not that difficult, unless you have some compulsion to post....

Re: Should spoiler alerts be compulsory?

Posted: 15 Dec 2013, 17:35
by lefty
crusader wrote:I don't think it should be forced, but it doesn't take long to add 'spoiler' to a title and it would assuage those who complain about having results spoiled.

Then again, I have little sympathy for people who come to a place meant for boxing discussion---where results are also frequently made clear in thread titles--and then complain like they didn't see it coming. If I don't want a result spoiled, I wait until I see the fight and I avoid a site in which discussion of the result will be ubiquitous! It's not that difficult, unless you have some compulsion to post....
Get the hell out you trespassing bastard! This is for the british and irish! :wink:

Re: Should spoiler alerts be compulsory?

Posted: 15 Dec 2013, 17:43
by Final round
No I avoid all boxing forums, news sites, twitter until I've caught up with the action.

Re: Should spoiler alerts be compulsory?

Posted: 15 Dec 2013, 19:36
by tallsdav
How many days after the fight before you dont have to put a spoiler tag?

Re: Should spoiler alerts be compulsory?

Posted: 16 Dec 2013, 05:10
by earsjohn
forcefraser wrote:I have "spoiler Nazis" only a couple of rungs higher than wife beaters.

If you want to avoid a boxing result, dont go on a boxing forum or boxing website of any kind. Few things get my back up as much as some muppet giving some other guy a hard time after he has logged on to a boxing forum, chosen to go into a thread about the fight who's result he is trying to avoid and then, suprise suprise, he sees the result in the theead. Get real. Are we in nursery school here?
TBF I don't think this is about including spoiler info in the actual thread, just in the thread title. Anyone wanting to avoid a fight result that clicks into a thread relating to the fight is a probable future Darwin Award recipient.

Re: Should spoiler alerts be compulsory?

Posted: 17 Dec 2013, 18:33
by Lightsoot
Anyone who comes onto a boxing forum and complains about spoilers is a plank. But maybe it's an illness like alcoholism? Can our resident quacks confirm?

If in doubt, don't come on.

Re: Should spoiler alerts be compulsory?

Posted: 17 Dec 2013, 18:39
by macaca
keithmoonhangover wrote:
chad wrote:
keithmoonhangover wrote: In fairness there's nowt the matter with a rub and tug, technically it's not cheating. It's just a very comprehensive cock massage. :OhYes:
Especially if your wearing a condom. All they've done is rub a meat filled balloon. Why my wife doesn't understand this I'll never know :??
Women mate. Snakes with tits.
Careful, Samuel L Jackson will be on the blower....

I expect some addresses when I get to blighty for these rub and tugs

Re: Should spoiler alerts be compulsory?

Posted: 18 Dec 2013, 02:59
by crusader
earsjohn wrote:
forcefraser wrote:I have "spoiler Nazis" only a couple of rungs higher than wife beaters.

If you want to avoid a boxing result, dont go on a boxing forum or boxing website of any kind. Few things get my back up as much as some muppet giving some other guy a hard time after he has logged on to a boxing forum, chosen to go into a thread about the fight who's result he is trying to avoid and then, suprise suprise, he sees the result in the theead. Get real. Are we in nursery school here?
TBF I don't think this is about including spoiler info in the actual thread, just in the thread title. Anyone wanting to avoid a fight result that clicks into a thread relating to the fight is a probable future Darwin Award recipient.
A regular poster here actually called me a dickhead for giving away the result of Sexton-Robinson II in a RBR thread for the card the bout was on :-?

Re: Should spoiler alerts be compulsory?

Posted: 18 Dec 2013, 06:48
by banjo
No, if you are avoiding the results and then go on a boxing forum you're a fornicating spastic and have no ground, absolutely no ground to complain.

Re: Should spoiler alerts be compulsory?

Posted: 18 Dec 2013, 07:57
by black panther
keithmoonhangover wrote:
WelshJack wrote:I just don't get why people need to go on a boxing forum when trying to avoid results?
this. :TU:

x10000000000

Re: Should spoiler alerts be compulsory?

Posted: 18 Dec 2013, 08:14
by whiskey
Going to buck the trend here.

Yes, people should take an extra 2 seconds of their life to write the word *spoiler* next to say 'Broner vs Maidana - *Spoiler*

Because there are plenty of people who hunt around for the fight or a video, and they wish to avoid the result and watch it somehow. Not just the poor, austerity-struck people who cannot afford sky & BN at £50 a month, but also those abroad where even if they could pay for the fight, they have no TV channel or broker to sell it them legally.

Facebook, twitter - obviously the conversations aren't categorised so they are a sandbox for anyone to write anything to be seen by everyone.

But a forum is structured in a way that it's easily doable. Just dont put the result in the topic thread - is it really that hard ?

Re: Should spoiler alerts be compulsory?

Posted: 18 Dec 2013, 13:49
by keithmoonhangover
Power777 wrote:
keithmoonhangover wrote:
taffytoon wrote:It takes seconds to do and shows manners. That said most on here have none so they will never change.
taffytoon. Should people who don't have BoxN@tion, have to check the schedule to see if there's delayed coverage of a fight before they post on here?
You really are a woman. What a stupid question.
and you're an immature little prick, who posts such stupid stuff that he keeps getting banned.

who are you this week? The oldest poster on here?