Why is something spoiler-marked in one place and not another?

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On the page for https://tardis.guide/story/the-dying-breed/, @shauny has the location blurred for potential spoilers but then when the exact same location is stated in the Synopsis, it’s not blurred. Is there reason for this? I just feel like there’s no reason to blur it in the location field just to state it outright in the synopsis.

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I don’t know exactly why it is marked as a spoiler location. But the synopsis doesn’t have a spoiler function.

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I guess the location is spoilered by default because it might sometimes feature spoiler locations. The synopsis usually doesn’t.

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Location is spoilered by default until you complete a story, but synopsis’ aren’t

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I don’t blur synopsis because they are usually written in a way that would avoid spoilers.

For example a synopsis might be:

The Eighth Doctor visits London for a cup of tea.

But then in the “locations” we may have put:

London, Gallifrey

And it’s a big spoiler that Gallifrey is visited, because it turns out the tearoom he visits contains a portal straight to Rassilon’s bedroom, or something.

So the ‘locations’ can potentially have major spoilers in, but the synopsis won’t.

Does that make sense?

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And as for “don’t bother blurring the location if it’s mentioned in the synopsis”, yes it theory that sounds like a very good idea but in practise the only way to really do that would be to manually check every. single. story.

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No problem. I just found this particular one a bit odd and amusing that the location is blurred in one place and then right below it, it isn’t.

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You say that like it’s a difficult task…

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You say that like it isn’t! Oh, how are those spreadsheets doing? :wink:

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Isn’t there a way to code the synopsis so it checks if a string is used in location so it blur it too?

I did one single class for programming at uni, so saying this as a complete total ignorant noob

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I mean yeah there is but there are all kinds of edge cases and stuff I just don’t want to deal with right now.

Much easier to just always blur all locations.

They unblur once you’ve completed a story!

(That doesn’t happen straight away at the moment, you need to refresh, I’ll be updating that)

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