I've chosen Never. In my opinion, giving spoilers away without a proper warning is very disrespectful towards the potential readers. There are people who can handle spoilers but there are also people who would feel discouraged if they read a spoiler about a series.


This is why I think we should never give spoilers. We all have different timetables, so we can't estimate how long you should wait before starting giving spoilers freely.


I feel you... I've dropped a series because of that.


Amen.

This is a very deep question so I will give my thoughts on various different situations:

1) I will never give away spoilers to a series that I am specifically recommending to someone (for example, if I were to be recommending One Piece to someone who I knew had never read it, I wouldn't say "don't get too attached to Ace" ) , but in a public forum (like this one) I don't think it matters at all.

2) I do personally adhere to "a few months" before talking about e.g. movies that contain major plot spoilers in real-life public spaces, but I don't begrudge people who spoil them the day after release, especially on the internet (by, say, making a youtube video with a spoiler in the title)--if someone cared that fucking much, they would've seen it on launch night because they should know that's the only way to avoid spoilers on The Internet. I know people that do media blackouts for things they actually care about, and I respect their dedication even though I'm nothing like them.

3) The one thing I don't think is okay is bringing spoilers for unreleased content outside of forums dedicated to spoilers for that content. It's not even that I personally mind (I don't, at all), but unlike spoilers for released content, I can totally understand why that would be infuriating, hypothetically. The "snape kills dumbledore" spoiler rightfully pissed a shitton of people off--even if those people were in line for the midnight release and didn't fall asleep until they finished the book (like my sister did), they still had a super gigantic plot point spoiled for them early. And iirc, a few people got outright banned from apforums (again, justifiably lol) for bringing "OMG ACE DIES" out of the spoiler subforum before a full scanlation of the chapter was available.

So although my real opinion, especially for the internet, is "any time you want" [for released content], I put "at least a few months after release" as my answer to the poll since that's what I adhere to in real-life public spaces. But I only even wait that long more as a social grace than because I think it's really justified. It's hard to take the moral high ground when a movie released last week ?

Any time you want.
Whatever anyone else may think, All the other options are overrated.

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I try my best not the spoil anything for people who haven't read something yet, since that's how I personally prefer going into things. I'll make exceptions if the person I'm speaking with doesn't care about spoilers or it's a series I particularly hate then I might spoil stuff in an effort to convince them not to read it.