To be clear!!!
I have not read a single post on tumblr with an accurate spoiler. So don’t feel like the book has been spoiled for you or whatever.
But the IDEA that people are intentionally trying to shape other people’s reading experiences really bothers me. Why would you do that? How does it help you? What purpose does it serve? In what way is it entertaining? The whole affair strikes me (to be perfectly frank) as outrageously childish and selfish and immature in the manner of the kid who gloats about secret knowledge of the Truth about Santa or whatever.
If you’re old enough to type, you should be old enough and mature enough to acknowledge the reality and significance of other people, and that—to use a crass metaphor—just as you wouldn’t want them pissing in your drinking water, maybe you ought not piss in theirs.
This just seems so overwhelmingly obvious to me that when I see people on the Internet fail to show that basic level of human decency—the acknowledgment that other people are real and their feelings are significant—I get very sad. This happens a lot on the Internet, of course, but we nerdfighters are really fortunate that it almost never happens in our community.
So when it does—even when the spoiler is false—it’s just shocking and disappointing.
