Thread:BenRG/@comment-26397825-20170121180653/@comment-4010415-20170121182203

BenRG wrote: Look, if the spoiler's policy is so tight that it includes teaser mentions then maybe the time has come for it ot be revised. "Teaser mentions" is pretty much "I won't tell you specifics, but this thing happens in this episode", which spoils something that happens in the episode, no matter how minor.

And one problem with minor spoilers is that, sometimes, when someone encounters a minor spoiler, they can't help but wonder about it, and before they know it, they've accidentally spoiled even more of the episode for themselves.

Case in point: When I was in high school, I was reading a mystery novel that was a spin-off from the anime/manga Death Note. I was talking about it to a friend of mine, and she blurted out about a specific character: "That's not L!!" I couldn't help but wonder what she meant and couldn't stop myself from figuring out, thanks to her, the true identity of the character. So her relatively small spoiler turned into a bigger one thanks to my wandering thoughts. I didn't mean to dwell on the spoiler or try to figure out what she meant by it. It just happened.

It's like if someone commented on Heroes and Monsters before public release, saying something like "Well, this episode proves Yang's Semblance doesn't make her all-powerful." Everyone else can read that and conclude that Yang ends up in a fight and either has a ton of trouble or loses.