(thanks Zippy for reminding me about this :P)
@Marker
Spoilers are a form of filtering: They remove content from view, just in a less permanent way than hiding them completely.
spoilers could be used, for example, because someone is viewing the site in a semi-public setting and don’t want the more risqué contents immediately visible
Sure, there might be a legitimate reason to use spoilers like you described, however I’ve always considered the primary purpose of spoilers as a way to hide content you either don’t like, or don’t want to see, whilst also keeping the option to view it
after being made aware that it contains something you normally wouldn’t like.
And because the image is already not visible, and replaced by a warning that simply indicates what it contained that caused it to be spoilered (aka whatever you indicated is something you don’t like) allowing downvotes in this situation are going to indirectly encourage people to indiscriminately downvote images based on the tags they were spoilered for, rather than the image itself^[1]
–so it unfortunately has to be removed.
That said, there’s nothing that says you can’t open the image’s page directly and downvote it from there. In fact I’d recommend that, as thumbnails in general do tend to be misleading[2]^.
Also apologies to byte[] for taking this thread down a bit of a rabbit hole.
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I feel like I’ve made my point well enough, so I’m going to let it drop from here.
[1] a problem Derpibooru has had in the past who would sweep the entire front page downvoting everything they see
[2] That’s the exact reason Project Vinyl doesn’t even have voting buttons on their thumbnails. You can’t expect anyone to judge an image properly based on a sized-down preview, much less an entire video.
