a question of spoiler etiquette on social bookmarking sites

[ratcreature]

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?

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Comments

[brownbetty]

You could um, rot13 them, and rename those later? That's a lot of work too.

[ratcreature]

I'm too lazy for that, especially with story summaries, which I have recently started to include in the desciption for stories I tag, and that wouldn't be useful for other users either. I rather make them private, that's just one tickybox to change

[brownbetty]

Heh. True. Great use of icon.

I don't actually feel like I have a dog in this fight (and will that metaphor become problematic given current events in the US?) since I haven't even made plans to get ahold of DH, nor made efforts to avoid spoilers.

[ratcreature]

dog in this fight (and will that metaphor become problematic given current events in the US?)

dog fights? what events have I missed? *is clueless as usual*

[brownbetty]

Oh, some sports figure was recently uncovered being involved in dog-fighting, and then tried to defend himself be being all, "It's a great sport!" I am only aware of it in that my TV boyfriend, Jon Stewart, mocked him.