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

[dossier.livejournal.com]

If I were going to tag a bunch of stuff that I wanted to lock, and then unlock later, I'd add a temporary tag like 'unlock', so that you have a way of easily sorting them out--then it's only a matter of unchecking the ticky box.

Now, I'm kind of the opinion that the folks who trawl del.icio.us sites aren't going to be chuffed one way or the other; it's the most public of sites, and they're probably thick skinned jaded thrill seekers. I honestly don't get that concerned about spoilers in tags, and I'm the worst spoiler nazi there is. I've ended my self-imposed moratorium and media black-out as I finished the book yesterday, but it's really sweet of you to be worried, in general!

[ratcreature]

I think it's all the dire threats I've seen on my f-list that are cautioning me *g*, and that I really appreciate it myself when others are careful. Like for example with the Serenity movie that opened only months after the US release in cinemas here, yet I wasn't spoiled because my f-list was considerate (well, and because I avoided general Firefly websites and forums).