Why I hate Google

[theblitz]

Using Google when you are reading "old" books can be a minefield.

I just googled something to do with DS9 and accidently saw a spoiler for something kinda big.

Grrr.

Anyone got a memory wiper handy?

 

[rahullak]

This is just to test your vision. If you will look at this light here...

(In before the lock!)

 

[theblitz]

LOL

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I abstained from the internet for two days before STID came out. It killed me, but I triumphed.

 

[bbailey861]

I abstained from the internet for two days before STID came out. It killed me, but I triumphed.

Me, too, and I was very impressed that this BBS remained remarkably spoiler-free except in those threads marked as such. I thought I was going to have to abstain from The Trek BBS totally but it didn't end up that way at all.

 

[DS9Continuing]

I have experienced similar traumas - in one particular case thanks to this very board, which not only placed, but on further consideration allowed to remain, one of the most massive spoilers there could be right in a thread title.

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[F. King Daniel]

I was spoiled on

Spoiler: The Eternal Tide

Janeway's ressurrection and surviving the book

and

Spoiler: Star Trek Into Darkness

Harrison being Khan (which admittedly had been rumoured forever)

on Facebook. The former by a Trek Lit page and the latter by a bitter little Elvis wannabe. Such is the risk we run. But I still very much enjoyed both, and both still had plenty of huge surprises in store!

 

[ryan123450]

I have experienced similar traumas - in one particular case thanks to this very board, which not only placed, but on further consideration allowed to remain, one of the most massive spoilers there could be right in a thread title.

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That was the worst spoiler related incident to ever happen to me. I still can't believe people could be so insensitive.

 

[Paris]

^To which thread do you refer? Feel free to post the title in spoiler bars

 

[ryan123450]

I'm at work now so I won't search for the thtead link, but the spoiler regarded the big event of Plauges of Night/Raise the Dawn.

 

[JD]

Oh, I think I remember which thread you guys are talking about know.

Spoiler: question about the spoilery thread topic

Was it the one about the destruction of DS9 that popped up right after PoN came out?

 

[Ain Jalut]

I try not to use it because it personalises my searches.

 

[ryan123450]

Oh, I think I remember which thread you guys are talking about know.

Spoiler: question about the spoilery thread topic

Was it the one about the destruction of DS9 that popped up right after PoN came out?

Thats what I was talking about and I'm pretty sure thats what lvsxy808 was originally refering to.

 

[DS9Continuing]

I was indeed.

 

[Patrick O'Brien]

^That sucks that it was spoiled for him. Though it is fast becoming old news.

 

[DS9Continuing]

^^^ Now, over a year later, yeah maybe, these things happen. But at the time, when it had been about a week since release and I was still waiting for the book to even appear in my local bookstore? Unforgiveable.

And it's big news, too. It's not like a "we find out what Klingons really look like under their helmets" level spoiler - it's a big mofo-ing mofo-er of a mofo.

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[F. King Daniel]

I read that spoiler before reading the book too but it didn't faze me. Even after reading it I was 100% sure...

Spoiler: PoN

...that Sisko saw the station engulfed in a huge explosion, not that it actually exploded.

It wasn't until I started the next book when I realized they'd actually done it! *cue Planet of the Apes reference*