A Question about Spoilers here

[Mikachu Yukitatsu]

I thought if you tell someone how to beat a certain boss or complete a certain level or something, that's a spoiler, too. What do you think? Is this a stupid question?

[MToolen]

Technically, I'd say yes, but in order to process the spoiler properly, you'd have to have the intention to use it; otherwise, it can seem like just a big splotch of text.

[Andrew]

Only use spoiler tags within like the first 3 months for a very heavy rpg, but a platformer needs no spoiler tags.

However, be sure to mention it in the thread title.

[Drago]

To me, spoilers classify as anything that's hidden content. ie. plot elements, unlockable characters and content, etc.
Level content and bosses are intended to be accessed in order to progress through the game. Say though, that said boss was a plot element (a good guy turned bad, etc.), then it would be a spoiler. Or, if it's a level or boss that you have to go out of your way to find; not one that is obligatory within the game's structure, that could be considered a spoiler.

In the strictest order though, as MToolen alluded to, such spoilers as boss strategies and the like are the sort of thing that, if you're reading in the first place, you intend to have it revealed to you.

I'm not entirely bitchy about spoilers, it just pisses me off when some goon on a Smash Bros forum pre-Brawl made a topic about their ideas for a potential character titled 'Ganondorf, Twilight Princess style: SPOILERS INSIDE', because of course, the fact that Ganondorf is even in TP is a spoiler. Nowadays it's old hat, but this was January '07, when some of us had gotten a Wii for Christmas and were still progressing through the game.

Anyway, I digress heavily. Just a warning about spoilers in the topic title would suffice. That way, anyone who doesn't want to have things ruined for them simply need not enter the topic.