Yesterday, a discussion about race results in thread titles became quite heated, so I decided to lock the thread.
Personally, spoilers don’t bother me. If I can’t watch a race live, I stay off my phone entirely until I’ve caught up. Since results are everywhere: TV, radio, and all over social media, avoiding them is usually up to the individual.
The current spoiler rule was originally implemented by three moderators (myself included) as the community grew. However, I am now the only active mod left, and I don’t want to be the sole person deciding whether to change this policy. Even if we change the rule, there’s always a chance someone will post a result in their excitement, and I won’t always be available to remove it immediately.
I’ve created a poll to let the community decide. It will remain open until this Thursday:
https://strawpoll.com/bVg8BLRQ3yY
PS: I understand that disagreements can get intense, but please keep the conversation respectful. There’s enough negativity in the world already, let’s keep this community a positive place.
Edit: the results are in!
Rule number 3 will not be adjusted. Thanks for voting everyone!
Lemmy/Piefed has a spoiler tag for exactly a scenario like this. Title it “Race results”/“The winner is…”, use the spoiler tag to blur the post image. Everyone can click on it and no one gets spoilered against their will.
This is not implemented in lemmy.world yet right?
I believe it should be. When creating a new post there should be a box to tick for “nsfw”.
I believe that this setting however makes the post not show up at all for people who have decided to block all nsfw content from their feeds. But usually for most people it should result in a blur that can be clicked.