> "I still don't get why someone would describe straight up what happened in the book." I'm going to assume you're referring to online spoilers (in text). Most

> "I still don't get why someone would describe straight up what happened in the book." I'm going to assume you're referring to online spoilers (in text). Most people I know don't have patience to speak about books in person. It really has to do with the community and their standards. Over at Metafilter.com that community is focused mostly on culture and entertainment topics. They're conscious of spoilers. Posters are hoping to introduce the community to new content or to think of older content in a new light. They want to share, entice and peak your interest to seek, find and enjoy the content they're posting about--if they tell you the punch line, then they've ruined the joke. And this permeates to the comments as well. What about HN? I see a lot of science, mathematics, engineering, technology, computing topics. What's the community standard for these disciplines? Prove you did the work. Share your sources. Explain what you mean. Quote. Link. And this permeates to the comments as well. Overwhelming detail is the standard. It's a feature, and not a bug (lalalala). But if that explanation is too much of a stretch for you, let me share the immortal words of Chris Farley, "Remember when... [...] that was Awesome!" https://youtu.be/iK-04wOy2BM?si=mym_q0ZxxfD887a1&t=46 https://youtu.be/iK-04wOy2BM?si=mym_q0ZxxfD887a1&t=46