I'm conflicted about this whole issue. I definitely agree that a character death warning can spoil a story for people. However, I don't always want to read character death stories. I have to be in a certain mood to be able to handle them. So personally, I'm quite fond of that warning, because I'd rather be spoiled than have to invest myself emotionally into a story and then have it crush me in the end with an unexpected death. If that makes sense.
I've seen authors who've found a pretty good solution to this whole issue. They put their warnings at the end of the fic as an A/N, and then say in the header: if you want to see any warnings, scroll down to the end. That way the people who like warnings can see them, and those who prefer not to get spoiled can read the fic happily as well. I think that's a nice middle-road solution for this whole issue. Though not a lot of authors seem to use it at this point, alas.
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Date: 2005-02-13 07:14 pm (UTC)I've seen authors who've found a pretty good solution to this whole issue. They put their warnings at the end of the fic as an A/N, and then say in the header: if you want to see any warnings, scroll down to the end. That way the people who like warnings can see them, and those who prefer not to get spoiled can read the fic happily as well. I think that's a nice middle-road solution for this whole issue. Though not a lot of authors seem to use it at this point, alas.