by the way i tried this & the users completley ignored me

since i know that people put spoilers i never read them. but its hard to avoid them completely. if you go to the front page of the spot and search for the episode you havent seen yet and the featured video there is a clip called "x and y kiss" (great show by the way the one with x and y)its over...thats why i watch videos on sidereel now!
not everyone is like sualey who went throught hte trouble of uploading old images to the "how i met your mother" spot so the new spoilery ones wouldnt be the featured ones- but thats sualey for ya

aww bless saul! yeah the only trouble is though it's hard not for them to catch your eye, one fan even said she thought the comments might be about the vid not working and it was a major as in shocking character death spoileer, i felt really bad for her

you know what really gets me!? that the user wouldnt delete or edit the comment. because i might put a spoiler in a comment by accident and if someone asked me to delete it i would asap!
it like when s.o points out that content is miscategorized, bad keywords etc..i would change/delete it without doubt and would thank the user for telling me.
but like i said: to watch vids like greys anatomy ( that spot is like youtube...no one gives a shit about any etiquette) i go to sidereel because i had it spoiled too many times! (that was the x kisses y spot, by the way)

yeah one user even had the cheeck to pu on a extra spoiler after i had mentioned it the **** sorry about that but he/she ****** me off
it's one thing to accidently put a spoiler on fanpop and then just not check your messages it's another to go out of your way to annoy someone
thankfully last week one user sent me a really nice message saying thanks for the heads up, made my week

the only trouble with sidereel is that people put uplinks to only have of the episode or to really spammy sites with loads of pop ups and such
i normally search fanpop or try and find a direct link myself on dailymotion, tudou, youku ect if i still can't find it then i might go to videolemon or sidereel or something, i wish tv-links was still up there's oads of replacement for it i know but it's not the same as it was

I don't read the comments before I watch the episode so it really doesn't bother me at all.

yeah my main concern is user who just come on to fanpop to watch episode and catch up with shows or new users

i've stopped reading stuff too because of all the spoiler thingies!! Imagine I had done that before i saw the last grey's!! I would've been so effing pissed!

cool icon debs.. i'm right there with you or i will be in 2 weeks when my exams start!! PANIC!!!

I had a hard time parsing the question at first. But from the comments, I think I get it. But I don't understand why anyone would read the comments before looking at the content - any kind of content on the site. I mean, users aren't going to write comments on the content before they view the content, right? They're going to write comments afterward. So all the comments on a particular link, image, video, pick, forum thread, et cetera are going to be about reactions to the content in question.

Looking at the question again, I see that it may be even more specific than that - it may be just about situations where people post spoilers about content that I (or anybody answering the question) contributes. Now that I really don't get...if possible, it makes less sense to me than the general case of reading spoilers for somebody's else's link. How could something that I contributed be spoiled for me by someone's reactions to it? Why, why, why would there ever be a situation where I'd link content to Fanpop that I hadn't already viewed myself? It's never gonna happen. I'm horrified at the very idea. Do people do that? WHY??!?!?!??

Sorry if that is obnoxious, but I don't get it. Maybe I misunderstand the question still. I sure hope so! If so, could someone please explain it to me?

lol okay harold we seriously have our wires crossed because none of that comment made sense to me lol

the question is about... hang on let me a do a example to make it easier, say i put up a episode where a character dies, i have already viewed the content, obviously
someone else then views it and writes "oh my gosh i can't believe *insert name* died"
the next person that comes to watch the episode even if it just catches their eye will know the ending of the episode and that comment will spoil it for them

does that make sense?

this especially applies to new users or user that just come on to watch video & episodes like i used to

the reason why i posted this question is not because it spoils it for me but because i often see comments from other fans saying it has spoiled it for them

My biggest problem comes from when I'm a fan of a show, and belong to that spot, but I haven't gotten to the latest episode. Then people will post a question like, "Are you shocked that so and so died" without a spoiler warning. This happens mostly with Supernatural (which I should probably just unsubscribe to because it happens a lot) and Grey's Anatomy (which I already have unsubscribed to).

I unscribed from Grey's too that spot really needs some help...

I've had a few episodes spoiled for me, too. I just try not to scroll down to the comments before I watch the episode. But sometimes the first comment is a spoiler, and my eye just drifts down there while I'm waiting for the thing to load and I read it. It totally kills the episode for me.

What I try to do when I post videos is that if there's a big event that happens in the episode (someone dies, a couple gets together, whatever) I post the content, then comment on it without a spoiler, so the first comment people see is mine (usually I just write something along the lines of "I love this episode!"). That way even if someone accidentally reads the first comment while they're waiting for the content to load or whatever, nothing is ruined. Generally works for me :)

ahhh good plan, thanks for the tip :D

You're welcome :)

yup lina good plan!
its funny how everyone keeps mentioning greys..i guess we all unsubscribed :D

but its true its that "first comment problem"
also because the spots contain so much information i dont use fanpop anymore when i start a new show.
i started watching veronica mars for example, which is over but i had never seen it.
first thing i see? a pick about someone having a baby...
so if there are a lot of people on fanpop to view vids ( and then maybe get hooked) the vids section should be seperate!

Instead of unsubscribing from spots, you could just turn off the thing that shows you new picks in your profile. I'm pretty sure there is an option like that.

I understand what Harold was saying, and I agree with him. He was just saying that if someone visits a link/video/pick/whatever it is, the comments they post on it is normally their reaction to what they had just seen. I'm not sure what else they would say in a comment.
Sometimes when I'm waiting for an episode to load I get curious and scroll down and read people's comments, but I know fully well that there will be spoilers in it.

But I guess it wouldn't hurt to write "spoiler" at the top of atleast the 1st comment and then hit the enter button a couple of times so that the 1st comment isn't on the screen while you're watching the video.

I'm always too interested in the video to make a comment before its done.

I don't go onto the fanpop spot of a tv program unless i've watched all the latest eps unless i want to find out spoilers - which most of the time i don't.

I now watch shows on Sidereel like Germany123 said i hate it when that happens