Olympic Spoilers-Please make them STOP! (Read 902 times)

I'm getting so frustrated with people posting about the Olympics and giving away results in the Subject Line. Sometimes I don't get to watch the events when they are broadcast, and it seems others are posting results that are on the internet even before they have been on TV. I have no problem with people wanting to discuss things with others who have seen the results already. But PLEASE, don't reveal results in the subject line, so those of us who haven't seen it can avoid the thread! Thanks, Rant over

I agree; put the athlete's name in the title but not the result. Too bad some childish posters can't help themselves.

Yup. DAMMIT.

Thank you. I am watching now!!

GAHHHHH Come on, people. Coverage has not even started on the west coast. I really wasn't expecting to know that piece of information in a thread about stopping spoilers.

Ha. It's not just stuff like this that happens on the other side of the earth. One of the biggest sports here in the US is the NFL (professional football... American football with the oblong brown ball). The rules behind what we get to see in real time... mind you, most of these games are during the day on Sundays... are completely flipping bizarre, especially for those without a satellite dish. Blackout rules for local broadcasts of the home team. For a long time, we were not allowed to watch a game being held at the local stadium on television if the game was not sold out in the stadium. Others in the nation might get to see it. The local people would have to watch reruns. This has changed some, I think. What gets shown on our regular networks is a very small subset of games chosen by, perhaps, monkeys. It sometimes is a very boring selection of teams that nobody in the area cares about. And when a game gets out of hand (lopsided scores), they generally will not switch to a more interesting game. The NFL network, which shows some games exclusively, is only available to certain people in the US. There's a writer for ESPN who writes a weekly football column. He gets email from all over the world, and it is common that people in Iraq and other nations which probably don't have a huge population salivating for American football get to see better games than we do. It's weird.