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This is the particularly aggravating practice of using spoiler tags that make it quite clear what they're concealing by their length and/or position, or the wording of the surrounding sentence. This, of course, defeats the entire point of using them at all. Often, even if they can't tell the specifics, it can lead the reader to have a fair idea just from the fact that there's ''something'' spoilery there.
Sometimes people don't seem to be aware of which words should be spoilered in order to make the sentence both understandable and non-spoilery to people who don't want to be spoiled. For instance, it goes without saying that examples on the [[Luke, I Am Your Father]] page all have a certain kind of spoiler, so rather than saying:
* In ''The Empire Strikes Back'', Luke Skywalker finds out that Darth Vader {{spoiler|is his father}}.
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is '''less than worthless''', because the first is left saying nothing at all, while the second one hides the ''most'' important part of the example (the name of the work).
The best workaround in a case where a
Be particularly careful with short names: If you say "In [[Harry Potter]], {{spoiler|Ron}} has a wand with a unicorn hair core", it's pretty obvious there aren't many characters whose names will fit in a spoiler box of that size, which will make it relatively clear which character you're talking
Some tropes, such as [[The Hero Dies]], are [[Spoilered Rotten|inherently spoilers]]
This page is a subset of our [[Spoiler Policy]].
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[[Category:Self Fulfilling Spoiler]]
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