QUOTE(Cyclopia @ Sun 19th September 2010, 2:07pm)
I am not talking of your intentions. I am talking of what the practical,final effect would be.
I'm not talking of my intentions either...?
I see little evidence that the practical, final effect would be any different than what it's likely to be now, other than that fewer people would be pissed off at Wikipedia. (So hey, maybe I shouldn't be arguing for this.)
QUOTE(Cyclopia @ Sun 19th September 2010, 2:42pm)
Also, for example, it seems that
a lot of cinema-loving guys in the comments of this post (not everyone but a reasonable majority) actually endorse WP containing spoilers without warnings and other gimmicks. A nice surprise.
Read it again, then.
I see a lot of people arguing that spoilers should be included, and several people arguing that tags/warnings are unnecessary - after all, they
can be distracting. But very few people there are arguing against rollups (I'm just going to call them that from now on) - in fact, I'd say most people are either for them, or don't even know what they are, or that they're an available option.
(There might also be some selection bias here - it seems to me that "cinema-loving guys" who watch a lot of movies and like to discuss them on internet forums are more likely to want to know the endings to movies than not, so that they can pretend to have seen them when they argue the merits of those movies with other forum members.)
Also, rollups are not a "gimmick." A "gimmick" is an animated GIF flashing naked boobs at you every 10 seconds. Rollups are a "handy feature" that serve a legitimate purpose, which include improving readability and aesthetics. I've been considering trying to work out the BBCode so that we can have them here on WR, in fact. (One of these days!)