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July 23rd, 2007 
hmm...?
I try to tag every fanfic I read on del.icio.us so that I can find it again. Now I'm reading some post-DH stuff and naturally my regular tagging (which includes names for all characters in a story for example) as well as the summary blurbs (which I've tried to be better about including in my links), would contain spoilers for DH. I know some people subscribe to del.icio.us feeds or just browse there, and it's not like I can spoiler cut. I'd really like to keep with my bookmarking and tagging routine, but I wonder whether I'm going to get lynched for having tags with spoilery character names. I could make all my post-DH bookmarks private, and unlock them later, but that negates the point of using a social bookmarking site, and I may forget about the unlocking, because I tag a lot of stuff, and even if I have a post-DH tag to find them all again, there's afaik no mass action for making bookmarks not private, so this course of action is somewhat inconvenient. So how should I handle spoilers on a social bookmarking site? What are you doing about your spoilery bookmarks?

Poll #1026237 fannish spoiler etiquette on del.icio.us
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How should I handle spoilers in my bookmarks on del.icio.us?

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Just tag as you always do, fans who haven't yet read DH and avoid spoilers won't browse there with the flood of post-DH meta and fic
39 (78.0%)

Tag as you always do, but make those bookmarks private, and unlock them in a few weeks.
9 (18.0%)

Simply skip bookmarking HP for a while.
0 (0.0%)

Do something else I will tell you about in a comment.
2 (4.0%)

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