User blog comment:NOBODY/Hiding the Video Module and Photos Module: The Email/@comment-3060206-20130529003714

The way you comment on the spoilers issue on Nitrome Wiki is interesting. Some wikis don't cover their spoilers at all, and some, at the most, only add a simple banner at the top. I know the community here is more driven towards "protecting unsuspecting viewers from spoilers", but I often find myself wondering: what defines a spoiler? How far will we go to cover up information? An enemy introduced in level two of a game is a spoiler to those who have never looked at the game or are stuck on level one. Does this mean we should be covering up every page about a component that is past level two? Maybe that looks ridiculous. But what about a boss that is introduced earlier in the game?

While it is courteous of us to cover up those "universally agreed upon" spoilers (endings), the rest of the "what is a spoiler issue" comes down to a preference per viewer. Yes, some wikis, Wikipedia included, don't cover spoilers. But they organize their content in such a way that navigation via the table of contents often helps to avoid spoilers. Part of hiding spoilers, I think, is the viewer's responsibility. If don't want to see the ending of a Nitrome game I've never played before, I simply just don't visit the page. I used to even leave the wiki while playing the game, until I come to a point where I know I want to complete it or am no longer interested in beating it. I'm not going to deliberately thrust myself into some "dangerous" spoiler-risk situation. Besides, spoiler templates can falter anyways, so they're not always reliable.