Well, in my case it was "Why don't you have a friend pre-read every story that has no warning for you, and unfortunately, that's ninety percent of them, so, still not viable.
Like I said in my original response, I'm perfectly willing to ask friends about every story where there is any indication that I might have a problem with it -- even if it's just "Author's notes at the end", or "caveat lector", or "spoilery information about my stories on a separate page", or, hell, just knowing that the author like to write dark fics, but if the author refuses to give me any chance to sense that her story might not be for me, well, I don't see the difference between that and a non-cut spoiler, in that it doesn't leave me any chance to avoid the topic without avoiding the whole fandom except for a few trusted friends, or having everything filtered first.
As for what to warn for -- my original answer was, "Everything that's bound to upset or annoy more than, say, 25 or 30 percent of fandom", because that's a lot of people getting their feelings hurt.
(Trinity, I'm sorry, I certainly didn't want to drag this debate into your LJ -- I shouldn't have brought it up in the first place.)
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Date: 2006-04-23 05:30 am (UTC)Like I said in my original response, I'm perfectly willing to ask friends about every story where there is any indication that I might have a problem with it -- even if it's just "Author's notes at the end", or "caveat lector", or "spoilery information about my stories on a separate page", or, hell, just knowing that the author like to write dark fics, but if the author refuses to give me any chance to sense that her story might not be for me, well, I don't see the difference between that and a non-cut spoiler, in that it doesn't leave me any chance to avoid the topic without avoiding the whole fandom except for a few trusted friends, or having everything filtered first.
As for what to warn for -- my original answer was, "Everything that's bound to upset or annoy more than, say, 25 or 30 percent of fandom", because that's a lot of people getting their feelings hurt.
(Trinity, I'm sorry, I certainly didn't want to drag this debate into your LJ -- I shouldn't have brought it up in the first place.)