To Spoiler, Or Not To Spoiler? That Is The Question

Being a Doctor Who fan is great especially now with the internet and social media, being able to meet loads of like minded people from around the world, like me for instance. Im from Scotland and Shaun, Glenn and Keith are from America. I have met and enjoy speaking to fans all over the world; America, Asia, Africa etc.
 
We discuss how great the show is and our favourite characters, stories and the like, our theories on what is going to happen, take part in mass commentary on twitter with the #FridayNightWho and #dwbar.
 
That is some of the fun points, but as like ying and yang, with the good is usually some bad. With all this more people I speak too in forums, facebook and twitter, the more complaining people do which gets me to what I want to speak a little about.
 
Spoilers.  Every week there is a new spoiler on line in Doctor Who from pictures being leaked to spoiler reviews from pre showing and it kicks up such a storm on line. I have read people screaming at each (well cap locks) on twitter and some being so highly offended and I can’t understand why. They inevitably block the person and such but I can’t understand why some people get so worked up on it.
 
The type of spoilers I am speaking about is not massive ones but enough to evoke a huge wrath by people.
 
I think the reason I don’t understand the reaction is because in this day and age some spoilers are inevitably going to leak out, we have twitter, facebook, google+, forums, blogs, podcasts and fanzines to start with and I have come to accept that in this day and age NOTHING can be totally locked down.
 
During the Doctor Who”off season” like now, I tend not to visit the forums as much but I still listen to the podcasts and obviously I am still on twitter and facebook and I firmly believe that if you are using these then you have to expect some titbits to be coming your way.
 
I would cross the line at someone posting the ending to the whole arc after going to to the doctor who spoiler’s website but when someone posts a picture of a scene during filming or the actors who are making a special appearance in that episode is it that bad?
 
I don’t think so and personally I wouldn’t even call it a spoiler, and if I am to be 100% positive someone could send me through the scrip’s to read and it wouldn’t take ANYTHING away from the episode for me, bit it seems even finding out the title of an episode 3 weeks before it is published by BBC is a punishment fit by hanging.
 
There is so many links on twitter by Doctor Who blogs with “SPOILER ON S7 E2” and such like and we all have to find ourselves answering the question, to spoiler or not to spoiler?
 
Depending on the severity I admit I sometimes do go and have a little nosey look.  How about you, do you nosey? Do you spoiler? Do you have cyberbabies every time someone throws a tiny new piece for information on the series your way?
 
Regards
Alex Giles (Muldwych)
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