[Dragaera] Phrasing - (Very minor Tiassa spoiler)

Scott Schultz scott at cjhunter.com
Fri Apr 22 08:12:49 PDT 2011


>It works for me.   What do you get, smaller fonts with long e-mail
messages?

A large high-res screen (hence, more screen real estate, even with a 10-12pt
font) with a similarly large-sized reading window. I'm a gamer, I typically
run my monitor at 1280px x 960 when I'm not running it at 1600 x 1200.

I should probably consider myself the exception rather than the rule in that
regard.

In any case, a spoiler subject tag does me way more good than spoiler space
line unless there are like thirty or more of them. Basically, if it says
"spoiler" in the subject and you open it anyway, then spoiler space seems a
bit moot at that point, anyway, but that's just me.

I see spoiler space as a throwback to the days of text-based Usenet clients
where you had no choice about viewing the first few lines of the next
message in order to see the headers that warned you about the spoiler. 

It's just my little rebellion against what I see as an old-fashioned and
obsolete convention. I'll continue to put it into my posts. Carry on. :-)





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